Do you have any friends that are insane?

Key · 10-01-2013, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sansa Stark

which is?

A more casual form of insane is for people who act out no matter what kind of social gathering they are at. Always willing to do something stupid for ****s and giggles i.e. going up to a fat man in a bar to touch his man boobs. In other words, someone who knows how to have fun and just not care, even though others may find him to be considered crazy or insane.

Trollheart · 10-01-2013, 07:59 PM

I don't have any friends...

Mondo Bungle · 10-01-2013, 08:02 PM

I'm genuinely insane.

Sequoioideae · 10-04-2013, 08:30 PM

When I was in highschool, I would meet people by running around with a box over my head in a shopping center, shooting people with a supersoaker full of root beer, and lighting my eyebrows on fire. I was that really weird kid.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-04-2013, 08:48 PM

Yeah one of my best pals.

Known him and his brother since I was 13 (he was 16), he's a good lad. When he was 19 he started doing strange things and talking bollocks. Did a lot of messed up stuff (some of it funny, some of it disturbing), he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2006 I think it was. In 2007 he disappeared, then a national newspaper ran a story about him going to London to murder someone (A list celeb), he just ran away from home out of nowhere, was gutted. Didn't hear anything at all until 2010 where we had heard one of his school pals had spotted him living rough in Cardiff. He was in a really bad way, looked anorexic and hadn't been taking medication.

Nothing again until about a month ago, he was spotted back in Birmingham and a group of our mates drove round looking for him and got him. He is living back at the family house now. Again he's got even worse since 2010, was having a beer with his brother and he's completely detatched from reality now. You could say 'let's go to Mars on a spaceship made from cardboard' and he'd just grunt.

My Dad is schizophrenic too, but I don't remember the breakdown as I was only 1 year old.

Know a few insane people in terms of kicking off when they're out, I tend to avoid them though.

IvanMC · 10-05-2013, 01:53 AM

Yeah, there's this one lad whose life revolves around footie and goes berserk when I tell him that the aforesaid sport has become pathetically money-orientated so he should stop frittering away time and money on it. And some other millons of people seem to be as nutty as this one. Then there are some other insane ones, but healthily so, who crack me up every single time I meet them.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 10-05-2013, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Very strange mental image there.

That is something I'd be interested in seeing!

I am usually the crazy one, particularly at parties. All my friends say I'm the craziest, I haven't met anyone like me!

Dulce · 10-07-2013, 06:37 PM

I don't care if you're insane in the in-brain, as long as you've got a sense of humor.

Stephen · 10-07-2013, 06:58 PM

I know you didn't mean mental illness per se but I do have a friend with schizophrenia. It tends to be episodic in that she will go off her meds, drink, do too many drugs, lose it completely, go to hospital, get her life back together, cruise along for a bit, go off her meds...

The episodes used to almost be pleasurable for her with fairies and harmless fantasy but her last episode was brutal. She was extremely paranoid and was locked up for fighting with strangers she thought had said something to her. By the time she was hospitalised she was skin and bone and just a wreck emotionally. Really sad to see her get that bad.

Paul Smeenus · 10-07-2013, 07:34 PM

To set the record straight, I was having a little fun with this thread

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...mes-music.html

Situations such as you're describing, Stephan, are heartbreaking and I would never make light of that. My best thoughts go out to your friend and all who love her.

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Yeah one of my best pals. Known him and his brother since I was 13 (he was 16), he's a good lad. When he was 19 he started doing strange things and talking bollocks. Did a lot of messed up stuff (some of it funny, some of it disturbing), he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2006 I think it was. In 2007 he disappeared, then a national newspaper ran a story about him going to London to murder someone (A list celeb), he just ran away from home out of nowhere, was gutted. Didn't hear anything at all until 2010 where we had heard one of his school pals had spotted him living rough in Cardiff. He was in a really bad way, looked anorexic and hadn't been taking medication. Nothing again until about a month ago, he was spotted back in Birmingham and a group of our mates drove round looking for him and got him. He is living back at the family house now. Again he's got even worse since 2010, was having a beer with his brother and he's completely detatched from reality now. You could say 'let's go to Mars on a spaceship made from cardboard' and he'd just grunt. My Dad is schizophrenic too, but I don't remember the breakdown as I was only 1 year old. Know a few insane people in terms of kicking off when they're out, I tend to avoid them though.

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IvanMC Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 258	Yeah, there's this one lad whose life revolves around footie and goes berserk when I tell him that the aforesaid sport has become pathetically money-orientated so he should stop frittering away time and money on it. And some other millons of people seem to be as nutty as this one. Then there are some other insane ones, but healthily so, who crack me up every single time I meet them.

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Dulce WILDFIRE Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 232	I don't care if you're insane in the in-brain, as long as you've got a sense of humor.

10-07-2013, 06:58 PM	#19 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,847	I know you didn't mean mental illness per se but I do have a friend with schizophrenia. It tends to be episodic in that she will go off her meds, drink, do too many drugs, lose it completely, go to hospital, get her life back together, cruise along for a bit, go off her meds... The episodes used to almost be pleasurable for her with fairies and harmless fantasy but her last episode was brutal. She was extremely paranoid and was locked up for fighting with strangers she thought had said something to her. By the time she was hospitalised she was skin and bone and just a wreck emotionally. Really sad to see her get that bad.