If you were wrongly put in an insane asylum, for one reason or another, how would you go about trying to prove your sanity?
Just a thought that was on my mind.
I would act like I was batman.
Actually I would act like I was being cured when I talked to the doctors and act like they were helping me, even if I was sane. eventually I would give all the right answers and they would let me leave.
Did you just watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
Personally, I would try to break out. How can you convince someone you’re sane? If the doctors talked to me for an extended period of time, they’d realize that I actually am insane, and never let me leave.
And let me just say that psych wards in hospitals are terrible places and should be avoided at all costs.
Nah, just thinking about an episode of Star Trek:TNG I saw once, and how a “science of Star Trek” book I read (I think it was “Star Trek On The Brain”) mentioned this … Psychiatrists, I got the impression, look for “abnormalities” first and “normalcy” second.
F’rinstance, oh look, some of the patients are hanging around the cafeteria right before lunch (this was part of a study whereby mentally healthy people went into mental hospitals and reported symptoms of schizophrenia, then acted completely normally)! The doctors decided that they must have sort of “oral-aquisitive” urge. They didn’t even consider, the book said, that it might be just because there’s not much to look forward to aside from lunch.
Damnit… there was a psychiatric study where someone admitted themselves to an insane asylum to study it from within, but when they were done with the study and he admitted it to the wardens they accused him of being delusional. I’m trying to remember who did it and I can’t find a damned thing on it… rrrargh!
Crazy adventures in surreal realms surrounding my myserious past car accident and a scientific conspiracy in a dark, brooding, land with such power of melancholy to almost be able to fight off the upbeat joy of ska, which itself has nothing to do with this. Why do you ask?
See what I mean? 
Staying in a mental institution for a prolonged period of time will make you crazy, even if you were fine beforehand.
Ask to have your loved ones visit to be a voice of reason.
If not, enjoy the free pills =D
:kissy:
i think the only way to break out would be to knock out the shrink when he came in (obviously you’d try to tackle him and slam his head on the floor, since you have a straight jacket) get lucky in finding something sharp on the doctors person, cut yourself free somehow, then use your awesome ninja skills to avoid detection on the way out. then you could resume your normal life, write a book about it and sue the asylum for imprisoning a sane person. these last two would make you rich, and since you’ve been poor all your life, the sudden extreme amount of money would cause you to go insane, thereby landing you in the asylum once again, by rightful means.
… Hey, why not just stay in there? Free upkeep. And some of the most interesting personalities ever to talk with. Wish I’d find Lenin or Merlin the Magician.
Prove my insanity you mean?
Why I would do the only logical thing. piss off the psychiatrists by corecting there every error and laughing at them when there analasis are completly off.
:moogle: Hows that gonna get you out?
It won’t. I’m hoping that they will get so mad at me that they will give up and move me to another asylum. then i’ll escape Mike Myer style.
:moogle: and that will prove your not crazy?
… I’m not crazy.
Yes, because sanity and insanity are psychological/psychiatrical terms, and not used completely in cases when trying to disprove the ability to commit such a crime.
Why leave? Free food, no having to pay rent, and you know who all the nutcases are. (Unless of course, they were gonna give me a lobotomy, then I’d have to knock everyone’s ass out and escape.)
Lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy!
DDT did a job on me
Now I am a real sickie
Guess I’ll have to break the news
That I got no mind to lose.
All the girls are in love with me
I’m a teenage lobotomy.
Slugs and snails are after me
DDT keeps me happy
Now I guess I’ll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum.
Gonna get my Ph.D.
I’m a teenage lobotomy.
kill myself by banging my head against the wall.