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Originally Posted by Fitzwilly
Cal, we may have to ask the Princess for a sub-forum in the clown cafe for some of the "thoughts on life" you bring up, this is good.
People generally classify distasteful behavior that they don't agree with as evil. And in many cases this is understandable. A black and white view makes the call of good or evil a fairly straightforward event.
Psychotic on the otherhand has become a catchall phrase similar to schizophrenia was a few years ago. Whereas schizo generally was used to mean just plain crazy, psychotic is usually joined with negative social behavior. In part this is understandable because without the standard mental controls and limitations people generally have they, the psychotics, occasionally act in ways that if performed by a person in relatively healthy mental state (although if a person is mentally healthy would they perform similar actions?) would be labeled as evil.
Okay Cal. this is a start and we can go from here. Plenty of generalizations made and some gaps in the thought process, but...
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Thank you, Fitz.
Yes, the term "psychotic" has become twisted into something that is synonymous with evil, and I wish that wasn't the case. If you are psychotic, that doesn't automatically make you evil and vice versa.
My cousin often complains to me that people think that he's dangerous just because he's on anti-psychotics. What those people didn't see was his fear and suffering before he was given help. He was 20 before he was committed to a psych ward. He was there, not because he had tried to hurt someone, but because he tried to commit suicide in order to make the voices stop talking to him.
Another thing that they don't seem to grasp is the fact that being on anti-psychotics doesn't make you unstable...it makes you stable.
My cousin is not crazy, his brain is just wired differently and he has never even thought about hurting anyone. One thing that surprises me is that people use a word that describes being out of touch with reality and apply it to evil people. People with severe autism are also out of touch with reality and are sometimes classified as psychotic, yet nobody calls the autistic community on that.
Besides all of those facts, how could someone condemn a psychotic person for the way they were born? They didn't have a choice, that's how they were formed. Evil people have a choice to be evil or not.
I think that there are many misconceptions about the psychotic community, chiefly due to willful ignorance. These people are no different than you or me other than the fact that they have a problem with their brain activity. Being psychotic has NOTHING to do with wicked acts, I cannot stress that enough.
Yes, people who are psychotic have killed, but people from all walks of life have killed. If you want to equate psychotics with being evil, then you must be fair and equate evil with firemen, teachers, clerks, and even clowns.