Am I going mad? A minority of people have periods of madness. The major form of disorder in these cases is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disorder where the person firmly believes certain things that the rest of us consider are not based in reality. For example, a person sees or hears things that are not present. For the person concerned it is a frightening experience. The family can’t understand why the person "can’t be talked out of it". While the person holds these ‘psychotic’ views they actually don’t think they are crazy (they believe they know the reality).

Aside from people with schizophrenia, there are others who believe they are going mad. People in this group can suffer from a number of problems including depression, where they think they might have a nervous breakdown, or panic disorder, where they have episodes of intense anxiety or panic which strike out of the blue. Although these people are very distressed, they are unlikely to develop symptoms of schizophrenia. These people always have a hold on reality, even though they may be extremely distressed by it.

Often completely normal people feel they are going mad. This can happen following relationship breakups or following the loss of someone very close to them. The important message here is that if you think you might be going mad, you are probably not going mad at all. This sort of insight indicates that you are likely to be in touch with reality.

or to put it simply

if you think you are - you're not.

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Hello........

I agree with what you have said changes. I also feel that counsellor/ therapists can be more aware of questioning there state of reality ............ and as there is no norm .......questioning this is healthy but there is that line which can be crossed so easily.........over analysis.

" Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusivelyt" Quote by Voltair.

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free" Quote by vikos Kazantzakis.

I will come back to this topic ........ need some coffee and breakfast first...This is a Great Forum