Theory #23 - Theory of Insanity

This theory isn't as crazy as it sounds.


Theory of Insanity

Whether it just comes out of us from nowhere, or if we blindly walk into it, Insanity is as real as any physical danger or death trap we may come across in life. Now once you've entered insanity, you're in deep shit. Cause your brain splits into two. A logical side and a natural instinct side.

Three life-threatening situations come to my mind when comparing it to going insane.
- Falling into quicksand
- Being strangled by someone's hands.
- and being lost at sea with a shark circling.

Our natural BASIC instinct tells us to panic. But everyone knows that won't help. If you panic in quicksand you'll just drown faster. Also if you're panicking people will be too scared to reach out and help for fear that you pull them down with you in your frenzy. Which you might just do. Panicking when being strangled will only make us reach for our necks to try to loosen the pressure but is still futile. and panicking with a shark circling will just make splashes so that the shark can find you more accurately and confirm that you're something he wants to eat.
So what's the correct answer? If the instinct side of you tells you to panic, what does your logical side say? The answer is the same for all three and for falling into insanity: STAY CALM. Panicking in any case will not help, it might even make it worse. The FIRST step is always to be calm, even though every instinct in our body is screaming at us to panic and act upon self-preservation, staying calm is the first step. Staying calm will reduce how fast you sink in the quicksand. To give you more time to figure out how to escape. Or to give you more time for the chance someone finds you and stretches their arm out for you. Staying calm might trick the shark into thinking there's nothing there for him to eat, and he could just swim away. Again, it'll atleast buy you time to formulate a plan while he's confused. As for the murderer strangling you, if you just try to calm down, you'd realize you have two free hands to choke him back with! Or at least kick him in the nuts. When going into insanity, panicking is no use. It's illogical, it's paranoid and it'll hurt people the people around you that you care about and it will NOT slow down the fall. It'll only make you fall faster.
Treat insanity and it's ugly cousins like depression the same way you treat real-life crisis. stay calm. That's what i think. That's my theory, that insanity should be treated as real physical danger. cause it is. Sure don't sit on your ass for too long, wait for the dust to settle then make your move out of danger.
Whatever the danger , STAY CALM. Then either wait for a helping hand, plan an escape route, hope it goes away , or FIGHT BACK. You have options, but if you panic, the only option is death.
Grim...I know.
but it's the truth. I know it's difficult I know that those who panic the most are those who have a lot that they love in life and wanna hold on to it. So for all those people going slowly into madness... good luck.

and remember... you're in it alone. you got yourself in this mess. get yourself out.