Insanity is not your average sickness. There is no guarantee that it can be treated or cured even with the advances in medicine we've made over the centuries. Especially if this insanity is purely psychological. They claim there are medications to treat the symptoms, but that's what all medications do. They merely treat the symptoms and give the patient relief. What says those prescribed medications will hinder the symptoms anyway? Insanity is unique to those who suffer it. "Psychosis" is treatable from what I've heard, genuine madness isn't. And I'm certainly not referring to chemical imbalances in the brain.
Have you ever had your vision obscured by a dirty window before and no matter how much you wipe it doesn't seem to go away? There is your clouded judgment. Have you ever held a camera and had it violently rattled until the image is barely comprehensible? Followed by what pilots call 'tunnel vision' to the point where you can make out next to nothing but the apparent light at the end of your tunnel? If so, you've begun to tumble down the rabbit hole and not as Alice, but as the MadHatter. Next comes the idea, growing in volume exponentially overtime until it becomes a whisper. That whisper then grows into a voice, that voice into scream, that scream into a very entity and that entity into a consciousness. The consciousness will return to being a voice, but not your average voice. This conscious voice will have it's own ideas borne of a splintered psyche and it's own twisted observations of the world. The world differs to us all already, imagine how it would differ to an entity created in madness.
There is no true definition or generic madness, and there certainly is no way to diagnose it. It's said that every man must be mad in their own way, for to be generically similar is insanity. Obviously that refers to the uniqueness of an individual, but that by no means addresses thought processes or facades of sanity. It's not referring to the men who accredit Catcher in the Rye or their nonexistent pet dogs for their actions and it definitely isn't justifying them. That's what I call corruption due to insanity. There are bound to be mad men in the world that coexist with their degree of delirium, but these men are usually as brilliant as they are insane. At times it's almost poetically beautiful the effects lunacy can bring about. Should anyone be psychologically adept enough to categorize madness, they would truly be a founding father of mental studies and medicine. I'm working on it, I'm working on it...but it's driving me mad in the process.
"Do they even cure you? Or is it just to humor us before we die. If only we could heal ourselves, we wouldn't need to be hooked up to these machines."
Have you ever had your vision obscured by a dirty window before and no matter how much you wipe it doesn't seem to go away? There is your clouded judgment. Have you ever held a camera and had it violently rattled until the image is barely comprehensible? Followed by what pilots call 'tunnel vision' to the point where you can make out next to nothing but the apparent light at the end of your tunnel? If so, you've begun to tumble down the rabbit hole and not as Alice, but as the MadHatter. Next comes the idea, growing in volume exponentially overtime until it becomes a whisper. That whisper then grows into a voice, that voice into scream, that scream into a very entity and that entity into a consciousness. The consciousness will return to being a voice, but not your average voice. This conscious voice will have it's own ideas borne of a splintered psyche and it's own twisted observations of the world. The world differs to us all already, imagine how it would differ to an entity created in madness.
There is no true definition or generic madness, and there certainly is no way to diagnose it. It's said that every man must be mad in their own way, for to be generically similar is insanity. Obviously that refers to the uniqueness of an individual, but that by no means addresses thought processes or facades of sanity. It's not referring to the men who accredit Catcher in the Rye or their nonexistent pet dogs for their actions and it definitely isn't justifying them. That's what I call corruption due to insanity. There are bound to be mad men in the world that coexist with their degree of delirium, but these men are usually as brilliant as they are insane. At times it's almost poetically beautiful the effects lunacy can bring about. Should anyone be psychologically adept enough to categorize madness, they would truly be a founding father of mental studies and medicine. I'm working on it, I'm working on it...but it's driving me mad in the process.
"Do they even cure you? Or is it just to humor us before we die. If only we could heal ourselves, we wouldn't need to be hooked up to these machines."
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