Mental health is a strange concept. My old psychology teacher taught us to remain a little sceptical when it came to psychological problems, what with scary studies showing the inaccuracy of diagnosis (psychologically 'normal' people were sent to psychiatric hospitals, falsely complaining of hearing voices but immediately returned to normal behaviour once they had been admitted. However, most were diagnosed with schizophrenia, sectioned and thus not allowed to leave the institution unless they agreed to have drug therapy) and the frequently ineffective, sometimes permanently damaging, 'treatments' (electro-compulsive therapy, psycho-surgery). So, I got to thinking the other day about different behaviours and how we interpret them. As a result, I have devised a little quiz for you:
It goes like this, I will list behaviours and 'symptoms' and you have to decide what I'm describing. I'll give you the answers after, but no cheating, you'll only ruin it for yourself.
1) Sudden changes between euphoria, anger and sadness, often involving shouting, occasional tears and frequent use of profanities.
2) Walking round a darkened room, accompanied by persistent tidying and the folding and re-folding of clothes.
3) Talking to appliances.
4) Inexplicable violence towards other people, including punching and pushing, and dangerous behaviour towards oneself, including disregard for dehydration and banging ones head.
So I'll give you the answers now, I hope you didn't cheat since that would take away all the fun.
1) Someone watching a sporting event, e.g. football
2) An employee of Hollister. They actually think they're cool.
3) Someone on the phone. Alternatively, someone with a disobedient computer or other such appliance.
4) People at a gig.
Want to know the really odd thing? If you don't take part in any of these activities, you're the one considered abnormal.
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