Craziness is a word that carries a certain amount of stigma, and even those of us who suffer from mental illness don't want to be associated with it. You have to learn to accept the illness, live with it, and if possible kick that ugly word out of your vocabulary.

As someone who's been hospitalized twice, I've just found great people in mental institutions. There was this woman who clearly suffered from schizophrenia, but you should have heard how she played the piano. Or another girl that was constantly writing poems and said she was looking for an editor, as she had over three hundred of them. Or this other guy that would kick everybody's *** playing ping pong. Sure, we all had our problems, but I would apply the adjective crazy to other people outside the hospital rather than to them, because for normal people their behavior is theirs to blame, not because it is caused by structural problems in their brain.