Sanity/Insanity
Hey guys,
Wanted to put a question aboard, to get a sense of what you guys think. I've been grappling with the notion of 'snapping' or a temporary psychological breakdown. In a conversation with some friends, the idea that came across was that any average person needs a load of weight on their heads to actually break down at any given point of time. It, quite literally, needs to add up to the straw on the camel's back before a person can, rationally speaking, snap.
I'm arguing that the weights on a person's head accumulate from the time they are born, so that at any given point of time, it could be a situation that evinces no particular reaction in anyone else which may be responsible for triggering a breakdown in one person. It's a question of that person's state of mind at that particular moment which matters, not so much the event itself.
What say you?
Wanted to put a question aboard, to get a sense of what you guys think. I've been grappling with the notion of 'snapping' or a temporary psychological breakdown. In a conversation with some friends, the idea that came across was that any average person needs a load of weight on their heads to actually break down at any given point of time. It, quite literally, needs to add up to the straw on the camel's back before a person can, rationally speaking, snap.
I'm arguing that the weights on a person's head accumulate from the time they are born, so that at any given point of time, it could be a situation that evinces no particular reaction in anyone else which may be responsible for triggering a breakdown in one person. It's a question of that person's state of mind at that particular moment which matters, not so much the event itself.
What say you?
posted by Cloud Mother at 12:28 pm
2 Comments:
Actually I think it is answerable and I quite agree that it is a build up of stuff throughout a lifetime (or several...!). It is quite true that someone will snap as a result of something that someone else will sail through.
Hey, thanks guys, for all the feedback. Vijay, thanks for sharing that. I know someone else who has been through a similar phase, and she survived by getting out of home and letting her life take a whole new direction. So I guess a great way out of that kind of a situation is to release a burst of energy in some form or another. It isn't research for a new play, actually...it's validation on the one that will happen in January! Was trying to understand my character a little better...does that make sense? But it's also true that madness, particularly psychological breakdowns of 'normal' people, is an area that I am interested in per se. Anything you share will only help further. Thanks again!
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