People always use the word, sometimes as a pejorative, sometimes just casually, as in "Ties were on sale, so I went crazy and bought 6" kind of thing.
I don't feel crazy. I know who I am, where I am, I function completely in the real world. And I suffer a lot with C-PTSD. I tend to have a lot of suicidal imagery. Healthy, no. Crazy, I don't think so, I know what the act entails, finality and desperation, what it would do to,those left behind. I certainly don't want to ever go there.
Why do people have to be cruel, treat us as somehow less than or dangerous or whatever? Especially the latter, because of the acts of a tiny handful of people, many of which may be sociopaths but not mentally ill? That is acting crazy, being irrational towards people they don't bother to understand.
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