People who are not the full shilling??

rox5 · 17-05-2013 04:45PM #1

Does anyone have an experiences with people who are, in a term that is used a lot, psycho? It's just that I have a lot of people in my life who act a bit off, and I just want to see if from people's own stories if they had psycho's in the lives and how they dealt with it.

frozenfrozen · 17-05-2013 04:46PM

They're everywhere

Banjo String · 17-05-2013 04:50PM

I bumped into Jim Corr in a Mother Hubbards one Monday afternoon.

Does that count?

Pushtrak · 17-05-2013 04:51PM

OP, I don't think it means what you think it means.

NothingMan · 17-05-2013 04:51PM

Once you learn to accept that everyone is mental in their own unique way then you can be a lot more tolerant of people.... most people anyway.

kneemos · 17-05-2013 04:56PM

rox5 wrote: »

Does anyone have an experiences with people who are, in a term that is used a lot, psycho? It's just that I have a lot of people in my life who act a bit off, and I just want to see if from people's own stories if they had psycho's in the lives and how they dealt with it.

What do you call "off"?

Hownowcow · 17-05-2013 05:01PM

As distinct from "harmless"?

rox5 · 17-05-2013 05:02PM

kneemos wrote: »

What do you call "off"?

As in: a girl I knew who texted a guy she knew only for three days when she decided she wanted to move to his hometown and have his baby and she told him this. He stopped texting after that, so yeah that sort of "off".

paddydriver · 17-05-2013 05:03PM

Hector from Blue Bloods last night was fairly messed up in the head... trying to shoot the mayor of NY!!!

orestes · 17-05-2013 05:04PM

Weird does not mean the same thing as mental illness. A lot of people suffering from mental illnesses or psychiatric conditions are completely functional while people who are weird can be completely healthy in the head. Assuming the two are connected trivialises the reality of mental illness imo.

I'm not saying that some people who are weird aren't also mental, but being "a bit off" isn't what I'd consider a diagnostic criteria.

Pug160 · 17-05-2013 05:06PM

rox5 wrote: »

Does anyone have an experiences with people who are, in a term that is used a lot, psycho? It's just that I have a lot of people in my life who act a bit off, and I just want to see if from people's own stories if they had psycho's in the lives and how they dealt with it.

Psycho as in mentally unstable? Well if that's the case you should be trying to keep them at arm's length.

As for people ''who are not the full shilling'', meh, it's subjective. A crazy person to someone can be a lovable eccentric to another person. There are a lot of misunderstood people, and it's one tack mindedness that causes it. That's society's problem, not an individual's.

Lisha · 17-05-2013 05:07PM

rox5 wrote: »

As in: a girl I knew who texted a guy she knew only for three days when she decided she wanted to move to his hometown and have his baby and she told him this. He stopped texting after that, so yeah that sort of "off".

But she loooovvvveees him

Maybe though he was freaking her out and she knew that laying the whole '2gether 4eva + tinnnyy baabbies' thang would vanish him double quick

Maybe he the crazy one

Fr_Dougal · 17-05-2013 05:12PM

rox5 wrote: »

As in: a girl I knew who texted a guy she knew only for three days when she decided she wanted to move to his hometown and have his baby and she told him this. He stopped texting after that, so yeah that sort of "off".

I think the bigger question here, and one that is not asked often enough in my opinion, is "was she hot?"

Super-Rush · 17-05-2013 05:12PM

Get new friends.

Nabber · 17-05-2013 05:18PM

rox5 wrote: »

Does anyone have an experiences with people who are, in a term that is used a lot, psycho? It's just that I have a lot of people in my life who act a bit off, and I just want to see if from people's own stories if they had psycho's in the lives and how they dealt with it.

There is more people that are a bit 'off' than normal???

I wanna be delicate about this,but it sounds like you are a member of the crazies.

Pug160 · 17-05-2013 05:27PM

Nabber wrote: »

There is more people that are a bit 'off' than normal???

I wanna be delicate about this,but it sounds like you are a member of the crazies.

This is not directed at the original poster as I don't know him or her, but in my view the philosophy that more people are weird than 'normal' is something that quite a lot of chavs and/or unenlightened people would share. In their world lots of things are weird. Wearing certain types of clothing is weird, reading a book could be weird, being quiet could be weird. Lots of things that are seemingly not weird, is in their view, actually weird.

Czarcasm · 17-05-2013 05:33PM

rox5 wrote: »

Does anyone have an experiences with people who are, in a term that is used a lot, psycho? It's just that I have a lot of people in my life who act a bit off, and I just want to see if from people's own stories if they had psycho's in the lives and how they dealt with it.

My best friends are the unconventional types, it's not that they don't give a shìt, they're just not "aware" of how unconventional they are. They're also incredibly loyal as friends, and great fun to be around because they push me well out of my reserved comfort zone

Zebra3 · 17-05-2013 05:34PM

People who are not the full shilling??

1. 50 Cent. :cool:

Hownowcow · 17-05-2013 05:53PM

Zebra3 wrote: »

1. 50 Cent. :cool:

IR£0 1s 0d = IR£0.05 = €0.0.063486904

I've little to be doing.

charlemont · 17-05-2013 06:02PM

I'm surrounded by them. The terrace has a high proportion of loons on it. Its fascinating to watch them do their thing sometimes. Bat shít crazy..

rox5 · 17-05-2013 06:04PM

orestes wrote: »

Weird does not mean the same thing as mental illness. A lot of people suffering from mental illnesses or psychiatric conditions are completely functional while people who are weird can be completely healthy in the head. Assuming the two are connected trivialises the reality of mental illness imo.

I'm not saying that some people who are weird aren't also mental, but being "a bit off" isn't what I'd consider a diagnostic criteria.

I didn't mean as in weird people. I am weird myself, and I know other people who would be known as "weird" and I like them because you can talk and hang with them without feeling judged and you can be yourself.

When I mean "off" I meant in the sense of, for example, a person texting someone who clearly stated that they are not interested in you, but yet the person would still send you texts because for some reason, they cannot accept the word "no."

kneemos · 17-05-2013 06:06PM

rox5 wrote: »

I didn't mean as in weird people. I am weird myself, and I know other people who would be known as "weird" and I like them because you can talk and hang with them without feeling judged and you can be yourself.

When I mean "off" I meant in the sense of, for example, a person texting someone who clearly stated that they are not interested in you, but yet the person would still send you texts because for some reason, they cannot accept the word "no."

Sounds like a simple infatuation.

rox5 · 17-05-2013 06:08PM

Nabber wrote: »

There is more people that are a bit 'off' than normal???

I wanna be delicate about this,but it sounds like you are a member of the crazies.

Again, I know that not everyone is normal, I know and love people who are eccentric, but I mean by "off" and "not the full shilling" is those people who cannot accept the word no, and can constantly haress a person because they are obsessed with them.

Trust me, I used to think that I was a bit crazy myself, but people say that if you are aware of it, you cannot be crazy, because crazy people are ignorant of the fact they are crazy. (Wow, I said crazy a lot there!)

rox5 · 17-05-2013 06:11PM

kneemos wrote: »

Sounds like a simple infatuation.

Not when the other person gets freaked out. Happened to me as well by this guy who hunts down girl's numbers and would text and call me, even when I screamed the word "NO! NO! NO!" in a text once. Got so freaked out that I had to threated him with the gardai to get him to stop, and also got his number blocked too just in case.

orestes · 17-05-2013 06:15PM

rox5 wrote: »

I didn't mean as in weird people. I am weird myself, and I know other people who would be known as "weird" and I like them because you can talk and hang with them without feeling judged and you can be yourself.

When I mean "off" I meant in the sense of, for example, a person texting someone who clearly stated that they are not interested in you, but yet the person would still send you texts because for some reason, they cannot accept the word "no."

Is this all gearing towards you telling us that some guy just won't leave you alone even though you like OMG! told him SO many times that you, like, totally aren't interested, like, hello, WEIRDO!

Edit:

rox5 wrote: »

Not when the other person gets freaked out. Happened to me as well by this guy who hunts down girl's numbers and would text and call me, even when I screamed the word "NO! NO! NO!" in a text once. Got so freaked out that I had to threated him with the gardai to get him to stop, and also got his number blocked too just in case.

Ah, I sees. Never mind.

Czarcasm · 17-05-2013 06:16PM

rox5 wrote: »

Not when the other person gets freaked out. Happened to me as well by this guy who hunts down girl's numbers and would text and call me, even when I screamed the word "NO! NO! NO!" in a text once. Got so freaked out that I had to threated him with the gardai to get him to stop, and also got his number blocked too just in case.

That sounds more like full on creepy bastard than just plain old harmless crazy fcuk tbh.

ToddyDoody · 17-05-2013 06:30PM

Jung, the psychoanalyst, keeps me sane. The auld 'civilization' is a thin veil recently invented.. You'll see it whenever anyone's under pressure.. I call it 'bringing out the worst in myself'.. As for others... :[

The Barefoot Pizza Thief · 17-05-2013 06:38PM

I subscribe to Seal's sentiments in that song Crazy. Now, I know he has since managed to break up with a very hot woman and so this might perhaps suggest that maybe he was wrong about the positive aspects of craziness but I still subscribe to his original thinking, even if he himself now has changed his mind and indeed, gone on to be sectioned.

Latchy · 17-05-2013 06:59PM

I know one guy from childhood days , now middle aged who regularly informs his 1500+ friends on Facebook as the '' latest project '' he has in mind ,which has nothing to do with the reality of undertaking the project in question and truth be told , is really just about wanting his ego massaged .

He could be termed ''borderline sociopath '' but to my mind he is simply sad ,perhaps lonely in that he needs constant approval and not the full shilling.

Bertie Woot · 17-05-2013 07:19PM

rox5 wrote: »

Does anyone have an experiences with people who are, in a term that is used a lot, psycho? It's just that I have a lot of people in my life who act a bit off, and I just want to see if from people's own stories if they had psycho's in the lives and how they dealt with it.

Jeez, where do I begin? I know you're using the term "psycho" casually, and to refer to someone who is, to use another phrase, "a bit nuts". But psychopaths really do exist, and they're not exclusively the stuff of Hollywood movies:

http://www.oregoncounseling.org/Handouts/PsychopathicPersonality.htm

And yes, I have met quite a few.

rossie1977 · 17-05-2013 07:34PM

galway has to have the biggest selection of strange individuals per capita anywhere

People who are not the full shilling??

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