Are all humans clinically insane?

badabing106

According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts.

kippy

badabing106 wrote: »

According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts.

Nonsense.

badabing106

There was another interesting study (Leahy, 2005, Study of Cornell University), in which scientists found that, firstly 85% of what we worry about never happens. Secondly with the 15% of the worries that did happen, 79% of the subjects discovered that either they could handle the difficulty better than expected, or that the difficulty taught them a lesson worth learning.

The conclusion is that 97% of our worries are baseless and result from an unfounded pessimistic perception.

These baseless worries are a major source of stress, tens
ion and cause of exhaustion not only for the mind, but also for the physical body.

Your Face

Wibble.

badabing106

kippy wrote: »

Nonsense.

Which bit?

kippy

badabing106 wrote: »

Which bit?

All of it. And the thread title.

badabing106

kippy wrote: »

All of it. And the thread title.

Is it true or not?

utyh2ikcq9z76b

They are all nutjobs

badabing106

badabing106 wrote: »

Is it true or not?

It's rubbish because it's so subjective. What is negative for one person might be positive or somewhat useful for another. It's completely dependent on the persons individual perception of their own reality and whether they're able to articulate that to the researchers. And whether the researchers care for anything that doesn't fit their perception of what is healthy or good.

Leg End Reject

I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.”

I have always love this quote.

Bishop of hope

I'm perfectly sane, but I've told virtually everyone close to me they're mad at some stage because of ideas they've come up with.
My own ideas are always just great

I know for a fact the 99.9% of the time people are thinking stuff like will I have a second cup of coffee, will I keep that glass jar or put it in the recycling, it might come in handy but on the other hand I have a press full of glass jars.

They are not thinking profound thoughts.

Potential-Monke

mariaalice

mariaalice wrote: »

I know for a fact the 99.9% of the time people are thinking stuff like will I have a second cup of coffee, will I keep that glass jar or put it in the recycling, it might come in handy but on the other hand I have a press full of glass jars.

They are not thinking profound thoughts.

But the OP doesn't say you have to be thinking about anything 'out there'.

Your post is displaying a pessimistic angle in a way. 'What if I keep the jar, and it becomes clutter?' is a pessimistic viewpoint.

Deleted User wrote:

It's rubbish because it's so subjective. What is negative for one person might be positive or somewhat useful for another.

Yes, in relation to things that actually happen. If we both go for a job, only one of us can get it, so one of us will "win", but both of us may experience pessimistic viewpoints up to the point of being offered the job.

It's an interesting thread. The thread title is a bit iffy though.

Bob Harris

Well if everyone is mad then no-one is mad as that would be the normal way to be.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

But the OP doesn't say you have to be thinking about anything 'out there'.

Your post is displaying a pessimistic angle in a way. 'What if I keep the jar, and it becomes clutter?' is a pessimistic viewpoint.




Yes, in relation to things that actually happen. If we both go for a job, only one of us can get it, so one of us will "win", but both of us may experience pessimistic viewpoints up to the point of being offered the job.

It's an interesting thread. The thread title is a bit iffy though.

A, but the optimist won't see it as a win or lose situation if they do not get the job they will think something better will come along they see silver linings every were it's a prsonality trait you are born with.

Bishop of hope

Bob Harris wrote: »

Well if everyone is mad then no-one is mad as that would be the normal way to be.

We could all be insane in different ways or by doing different things.

mariaalice

mariaalice wrote: »

A, but the optimist won't see it as a win or lose situation if they do not get the job they will think something better will come along they see silver linings every were it's a prsonality trait you are born with.

Fair point. Perhaps the real "fact" is that most people are just pessimistic in nature, and the optimistic personalities are fewer.

Bob Harris

Bishop of hope wrote: »

We could all be insane in different ways or by doing different things.

We could. I could be as mad as a box of frogs and you as mad a a bag of spanners and someone else as mad as a hatter. It's mad altogether Ted.

badabing106

badabing106 wrote: »

According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive thoughts.

It is indeed funny (to me) that when people see a person walking down the street visibly talking to themselves they assume some kind of insanity. When in fact all they lack is a censor between themselves and the external world and are otherwise doing nothing different to the rest of us.

We are _all_ basically in almost constant dialogue with our selves from the moment we wake until the moment we sleep. And who knows what in between. And this is entirely normal to us most of the time.

When you walk into a hotel room and internally say "Oh good - they left our free water and chocolate" to take one random example - who exactly is it you believe you are telling?

badabing106 wrote: »

There was another interesting study (Leahy, 2005, Study of Cornell University), in which scientists found that, firstly 85% of what we worry about never happens.

Similar to this - Derren Brown in a book he wrote called "Happy" recently put it nicely in another context.

I am quoting from memory but the line went something like "Most of us would stop worrying about what others think of us - if we realised how seldom they actually do"

https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/why-talking-to-yourself-out-loud-might-be-just-what-your-brain-needs

Talking to Yourself Out Loud May Be a Sign of Higher Intelligence, Find Researchers

mariaalice

mariaalice wrote: »

A, but the optimist won't see it as a win or lose situation if they do not get the job they will think something better will come along they see silver linings every were it's a prsonality trait you are born with.

Nobody is an optimist all the time, unless they're on some kind of drug.

Years ago, I attended some workshops on "reframing". Taking negative experiences and turning them around to make them opportunities for growth or to help consider alternative actions. It's something I think a lot of people would benefit from exploring.

everlast75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

seamus

Why are OP's posts all copy-and-paste jobs from midfulness blogs?