Madness or Insanity...

          MADNESS HAS IN OUR AGE BECAME SORT OF LOST TRUTH.

What is human experience or our own experience about insanity, mental illness? Madness is a way of seizing in extremis the racinating groundwork of the truth that underlies our more specific realization of what we are about. The truth of madness is what madness is. What madness is a form of vision that destroys itself by its own choice of oblivion in the face of existing forms of social tactics and strategy? Madness, for instance is a matter of voicing the realization that I am (or you are Christ). We have patients in asylum who are living in their own pseudo world; but outside the walls of such institutions is lot of people who are living in the world of broken mirrors. There any many available forms of truth in our age; apart from the Cross, there are the shock box and the operation of lobotomy, as well as the mass of the tranquillizing drugs*Prozac, that flood the ready market of well trained but gullible psychiatrist. The sacrificial offering becomes some sort of definable and measurable social fact. But implication we all become this sort of fact that denies our core essentiality and reduces us to a - co-essentiality of abstract absences. Did we are living in society who are deceiving us so we have lost contact with truth.

Even within the limited terms of contemporary psychiatry, great percentage of individuals suffers from mental disorders: suicide, drag addiction, alcoholism, deconstruction of personality, violence, mental anorexia, bulimia, depression, etc. Statistics about violence, drags, suicide, and alcoholism show that most developed and democratic industrial nations have the highest rates of individual disorder. What are happen whit post modern civilization and our western community? What could be actually general standard for the mental health? We have individual truth and general truth about psychopathology. Syndrome of Don Quixote is visible in behavior of great number of individuals which suffer from several forms of mental illness but they are not conscious about it. This situation is something like common, usual state of affairs’ for society! Such fact is in contradiction with general standard about mental health. Issue is that lot of people is convinced that everybody is mad, except himself.Generaly no body would like to admit that standard for normal mental health as criterion should be re established across all societies.

We chose to conjure up this disease* Syndrome Quixote, in order to evade a certain moment of our own existence - the moment of disturbance, of penetrating vision into depths of ourselves that we prefer to externalize into others. Others are elected to live in chaos that we refuse to confront to ourselves. By this means we escape a certain anxiety, but only at a price that is as immense as it is recognized. Recent psychiatric research into the origins of the several major forms of the madness in our age, has moved round to the position that people do not in fact go mad, but are driven by others who are driven into the position of driving them by peculiar convergence of social pressures. What is sad the social pressure is really hard so who is not unadjusted as individual in certain social laws and rules would be potential client for psychiatry.

Contemporary clinical psychiatry is ultimately in pseudo scientific alienated world from real people and social structures? Certain state of mind they define with word ‘’ illness’ just into formally reduced madness or dementia that there logically disposable in the field of curing. In majority curing is sort of anti – hilling – the sort of the violence that mental patients meet. So we should begin with this what we may know about madness and what we should made it great distinction from this, because none of the concepts of psychopathology, can play organizing role. From one side it is Reason and from another is MADNESS. Where is the point which establishes the distance between reason and non-reason, crime, or disease, derives explicitly from this point? Madness and non-madness, reason and no-reason are inextricably involved. In the concept of the contemporary language as common, modern man no longer communicates with the madman, the vice man*reasonable one just send mad man to authorized psychiatrists. So now the man who is connoted as mad or mentally ill communicates with society just with abstract reason which is order, physical and moral constraint, the anonymous pressure of the group, and the requests of the group. But issue is what is really language of reason, as result of special culture, knowledge and identity.

First question is: when we could say for somebody that he is mad man either ill from some mental disease? How it is possible to give diagnoses for dementia praecox or schizophrenia? This is question for history of experience and knowledge. Second one question is: ‘the chemistry of brain’’, to be honest it is still great riddle, what is happening before conception, during the pregnancy of mother and after birth*influence of lot of factors as in heritage from ancestors. Third question is what kind of people is practicing psychiatry?

Moreover the only one certain scientific truth is ‘’Invention of madness’’ as disease is in fact nothing less than peculiar disease of our civilization. Mental illness is disease with lot of faces, changeable for each rehearsal, covered with illusion. Madness is natural follower of each man, as beast which is sleeping in deepness of unconsciousness’ waiting to be awoken while is man deeply wounded, shaken in rots of his house of human being.

Anja Weber, Ph.D.