Mental Health: If You Think You're "Crazy," You Probably Aren't!

What does it mean to be crazy, anyway?

Once in a while I actually have counseling clients come to me and tell me that they believe they are going crazy.

Of course, most of the time they're not actually going crazy — they have simply encountered a situation that is very real in their experience but it is completely different from what 99% of the rest of the world experiences.

Much of the time when we think we're "going crazy," what we're actually experiencing tends to just be something that is definitely real, but also radically different from what everybody else seems to be experiencing.

No matter how much we might like to think ourselves as being "independent thinkers," we humans — as a species — tend to be "herd animals." I don't mean that in a derogatory sort of sense; I mean that in the sense that we evaluate our sense of reality against how predominant (or not predominant) a certain event, or experience, or feeling, or reaction to a situation might be.

So when we encounter something where we want to go in one direction and pretty much everybody else wants to go in a different direction that's when there's a little voice inside that urges us to consider the possibility that we are nuts!

Actual clinical insanity is actually a very rare diagnosis. And — in most cases — it is a diagnosis I will avoid handing out to anybody. The best thing I can offer — as a counselor and minister — is to provide people with some additional perspective to wrap around the experiences they're having so that they can reframe the experience of being "crazy" as simply having experienced something really unusual, or having unusual feelings in response to a given situation.

In quite a few cases, what we will unearth is actually the fact that the alleged crazy is the result of past traumas leading people to behave in ways that are (perfectly reasonable) indications of PTSD or CPTSD.

As holds true with a great many conditions, the healing actually begins with simply understanding what's going on, so you're no longer feeling like you are fumbling around in the dark.

So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you're starting to think that you must be going crazy, take a deep breath and sit back and ask yourself why you're actually thinking that, at a deeper level. It may not provide all the answers but it'll be a good starting point and it'll hopefully get you to a stable enough place that you can try to talk to somebody about this in a safe and non-judgmental environment.

I appreciate your visiting and Bright Blessings to all!

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