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Originally Posted by Rhapsody
No - I don't think so...... as we know what is basically normal (just like we all know what is basically right & wrong) and this is how we can tell if someone we love is not acting right - based on a unstated description of normal.
Ex: we all know that it is not normal to hear voices, to see people that are not there, to feel that everyone is out to get you / kill you, to think that a dog can talk and that cats are aliens sent here to impregnate the universe, to believe you are God, Satan or a Famous Dead Person... etc.
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So we are talking about a marked degree of divergence from what is considered normal ie it is the qualitative nature of the divergence as opposed to merely the mind, thoughts and actions being divergent that indicate mental disorder/mental illness ?