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chouchou

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17. I call them "Surface" people.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2023, 11:44 AM

Oct 2023

They don't seem to take time to evaluate the actual feelings of people they encounter.
They get "Taken" easily'
"That Trump guy is SO powerful and strong!!"
"I can't believe that nice young man stole all our savings...He was dressed so nice with a trim haircut"
Judging all people by looks will get you nowhere and usually into reality trouble.

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Serious question [View all] malaise Oct 2023 OP

They certainly are delusional Walleye Oct 2023 #1

There is no clinical definition of insanity. It is a legal concept, not a medical one. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #3

OK, what do they call the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality? Walleye Oct 2023 #4

Who's they? WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #5

Psychiatrists, or the legal definition of insanity Walleye Oct 2023 #6

Psychiatrists would use terms found in the DSM to describe and diagnose what someone was experiencing. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #7

I stand corrected. Walleye Oct 2023 #8

No, and making these kinds of conflations is dangerous to people with mental illness, who are some of the most WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #2

This. Not only sarisataka Oct 2023 #14

Anyone who supports the NAZI is nuts. Kid Berwyn Oct 2023 #9

i think we need a way better definition of mentally ill. mopinko Oct 2023 #10

Hate can be mental illness czarjak Oct 2023 #11

No Yonnie3 Oct 2023 #12

It's a cult. usonian Oct 2023 #13

No, not mentally ill. It is a denial of reality to think only insane people are hard right Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2023 #15

I hear you n/t malaise Oct 2023 #19

What are cult members considered? MyMission Oct 2023 #16

I call them "Surface" people. chouchou Oct 2023 #17

I'm not sure it's a mental illness, Malaise. I am aware of people who appear Raven Oct 2023 #18

no, but I think all MAGAts are white supremacist racists Stardust Mirror Oct 2023 #20