Ask HN: How can you tell if you are insane?

Re:Ask HN: How can you tell if you are insane? by bossrat on Sunday October 11, 2015 @06:28PM (#10371370)

you are simply wrong to run around diagnosing people as having schizophrenia based on your anecdotal experience. As I explained in another reply to you, the symptoms described do not match the criteria for schizophrenia. Call that a vague platitude if you want.

On margin, more people experience brief episodes of psychosis than who experience chronic psychotic illness, so again, you are just plain wrong.

the diagnosis of schizophrenia is a diagnosis of an extreme form of mental illness, regardless of its prevalence; cancer kills a lot of people, but it does so in an extreme form: the prevalence has nothing to do with the extremity.

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Re:Ask HN: How can you tell if you are insane? by qwertyFish on Sunday October 11, 2015 @09:29PM (#10372029)

Thank you for saying this. This account was the first one to respond and continued saying this. Seems a bit strong, I think it is more adderall/sleep/stress related as it was essentially a one-off occurence.

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