People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
It takes madness to find out madness.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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