[IndieVisible]

Ok here goes everyone is invited, schizo's bipolar, BPD, everyone!

Ever think or should I say convinced everyone is crazy and has some disorder?

Or how about this one, the Truman Show feeling...

every feel or should I say convinced everyone is in on some conspiracy about you and are waiting for you to discover the truth and join them?

Feel free to comment on these or add your own! Would love to hear about others too!

I think it's possible for someone to rationally theorize, even determine they are the target of a conspiracy.The government certainly employs this when deemed necessary, for investigations, no mystery there. With how connected people are thanks to technological hardware, the Internet, and social media, the public can easily achieve this if someone is percieved as a threat to everyone. This measure is probably taken when the law fails to pursue such a threat as determined fit by local society or if they want to go mid evil on said threat without the system's restrictive say on it.

Realistically, I do not think everyone around that person would be in on it. With technology going the way it is though, it's only a matter of time until something close to that would be possible (like people having been downloaded the information via their cerebral wifi, if something like that was invented; think of the show Continuum). Even then, not everyone would be informed - some people cannot keep up with the charade and/or are too liable to over-react.

People are nothing if not habitual, and a government collective or civilian coalition could easily persuade others. All that is needed is material that other people agree justify such a cause. Remember, police and other law officials are human first and foremost. They would more likely then not look the other way if they believe the law falls short on punishing someone. Even more so if the situation is personal.

I don't believe everyone that claims they are being monitored are. I believe a small minority of them could very well be. It's very difficult to determine, if done well. Who would believe them if they found out for certain?

People think that conspiracy theories are nothing more than that - theories. Yet consider that we do it in small ways all the time. To throw a surprise party, find out if someone is cheating in a relationship, setting two people up on a date, pulling a prank on someone. Those things usually require more than one person conspiring with another without the subject's knowledge.

The question you should be asking is why - why would a group of people want to put someone through this? It could be for many reasons, but all of them stir strong emotional and personal reactions. Think of Casey Anthony. The day she was released, women that had a similar semblance to hers were being attacked! People still do not know where she's hiding. I do not doubt that there are people out there trying to find out, and probably not for an autograph. Michael Jackson was accused of raping children. He wasn't found guilty, but almost everyone that discusses it mentions either doubting he didn't or being utterly convinced he did. FBI records reveal the concern for terrorist threats and actual threats.

These are people that were very publicized, and they have the insulation of added security and fame. Yet there are people like Michael accused of rape and like Casey, believed responsible for the death of a child. Don't you think the people in society that believe them guilty and not charged would collect on what these individuals are perceived to owe (for being proposed responsible for such crimes)?

There is a member of this site that had posts used against them on here to affect their relationship with someone of a close relation (I am not stating whom or of the exact nature out of respect, but I feel bad that this happened to them). This person is now paranoid about being watched on here and how their information on here is being used against them.

There is even a movie coming out about how social media is being used to take advantage of people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bling_Ring

[JaeMae]

Originally Posted by IndieVisible

Ok here goes everyone is invited, schizo's bipolar, BPD, everyone!

Ever think or should I say convinced everyone is crazy and has some disorder?

Or how about this one, the Truman Show feeling...

every feel or should I say convinced everyone is in on some conspiracy about you and are waiting for you to discover the truth and join them?

Feel free to comment on these or add your own! Would love to hear about others too!

I always think I am the sane one and everyone else is insane and it is just a conspiracy against me. So I truly understand where you are coming from a bit by your theory.

[newtus]

i think i am the sane one too to some extent. i know im a highly sensitive person. so i stress out more about things and worry more. but i feel like how insane are people to let things that happen in the real world happen. you know? wars and strife.

since being diagnosed i feel i can tell people have diagnoses although i realize its complex i just just say something in my head to myself about what i think people prob go through.

No one else knows about the moon creatures taking cats they're blind. They don't realize the trackers in the nail polish or the microbots in hair dye that allows them to hear your thoughts.

People are blind. They're the crazy blind ones.

[bronzeowl]

I hate that word. Crazy. Never did like it.

I feel that "sanity" as defined by Webster is not achievable. I don't think anyone is entirely sane. I sometimes feel like I'm sane. Then other times, not so much.

I don't know about conspiracies. I don't give traditional ones much merit. Though, sometimes, I feel like mental illness may be a conspiracy. Even though I don't want to.

Like newtus, I, also, feel like I can predict a person's diagnosis. It doesn't help that I have done so accurately many times before. I look at everyone and think about what it would be.

I'm not convinced everyone is crazy. I don't think anyone is crazy. I'm more or less convinced that no one is normal. Which is a bit of a paradox as, in that case, it becomes normal to not be normal. Don't... don't think about that too long.

Just going to leave this quote here because it seems fitting...

"In a mad world only the mad are sane."
Akira Kurosawa

[Travelinglady]

I don't know where this quote is from, but I always smile when I think of it: "All the world's crazy except for me and thee. And sometimes I wonder about thee."

[IndieVisible]

Well here's Merriam-Webster's definition of sane:

having a healthy mind : able to think normally
based on reason or good judgment : rational or sensible

forget the first past, that would be hard to prove or disprove BUT the second part, based on reason or good judgment : rational or sensible. Seriously, know any one that can always do that?

[yellowfrog268]

Well, most people I meet are stressed, tired, have unresolved childhood issues, problems with spouse or significant other, shall I continue? Everyone has problems and sometimes those problems (or the way they are dealt with) can look like mental health problems without ever qualifying for a legitimate diagnosis.

[IndieVisible]

Originally Posted by yellowfrog268

Well, most people I meet are stressed, tired, have unresolved childhood issues, problems with spouse or significant other, shall I continue? Everyone has problems and sometimes those problems (or the way they are dealt with) can look like mental health problems without ever qualifying for a legitimate diagnosis.

Agree! And that is precisely why it's so easy to think every one is crazy! Because technically we all are at one time or another. Some of us just more then others

[Grey Matter]

The definition of "crazy" (like bronzeowl, I loathe that word) and "sane" are so simplistic in both language and thinking. It happens by viewing language as a "this is right" "this is wrong". I know many "sane" people by definition, but does that mean they don't see themselves as crazy? I confuse myself when I think about this, really.

It IS possible for everyone to have some form of mental dysfunction. One becomes mentally ill when it begins effecting their lives in negative ways, or disabling them completely. At least that is how I try to see it to make some sense out of it? Dear lord, I am giving myself a headache haha

I do get the "Truman Show" feeling, Indie. I think that has more to do with my depersonalization disorder than anything else, but it's god damn creepy none the less.