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Going insane isn’t really going crazy is it? It’s technically just a different way of thinking. Not only is it thinking a different way, but also because our brains process differently than when we are sane.
While insanity means doing the same thing, thinking it will change, and getting the same results, sanity is being sound of mind. Although sanity has an exact definition there is one question we must ask ourselves. What exactly does it mean by having a sound mind? Does it mean that we are free from longing people to be dead? Or could it possibly direct its aim at not hurting ourselves and being unnaturally violent?
When I went to therapy last year, I was hooked up to a machine that showed which parts of my brain works and when it‘s working. I was asked several questions as I stared at the screen watching my brain light up as my emotions changed. I asked my therapist to show me different situations with different emotions. In response to my question, he showed me different types of insanity and which parts of the brain lacks in “lighting up”. I realized something at that very moment. We are all insane.
However, I have finally come to the conclusion that sanity is a made up state of mind. Seeing as though we came up with the definition on our own, there is no way to even be sure if we are sane. My theory is that we are all insane, yet some of us are better at masking it.
Sanity and insanity are words that have been around for centuries, and possibly even longer. In times such as Shakespeare and Goya, we see paintings and literature that represents this derangement. We watch as time passes over while we observe these various types of thinking. We witnessed the population of sanity vanish like the sun during a sunse...

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...s deaths and in fact there are two. Raskilkov kills the Pawn shop keeper and her sister, but he only meant to murder the pawn shop keeper. Her sister came in at the wrong time screaming and he became frantic. After covering up the murders, he falls severely ill. We interpret this as guilt consuming his body. Not only guilt, but we can also assume that the inner darkness of his true human nature was consuming his mind. Another time we see guilt from him is when he is paranoid with everyone.
The various terms of insanity make it almost impossible to determine the sane from the mentally deranged. The difference is slight, but some of us keep it hidden better than others. Although it is time for the sun to set again, we know it will rise again tomorrow because it is a normal occurrence, but as for the “sanity” we contain? There is not a chance that it even exists here.

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