Sinead O’Connor dies, aged 56

[Bryan]

Sorry to say, there goes another. Great singer but I'm afraid she too had mental demons.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Oh she was a treasure, and probably crazy in the best way. So many of our creative geniuses are I have become convinced our ideas of what is normal covers only a very narrow band in the middle. And that tiny section is probably made up of mental health specialists... The rest of us are spread out on either side, and to make it more interesting, probably move around on either side far more often than we realise. Or care to admit.

[king1]

Oh she was a treasure, and probably crazy in the best way. So many of our creative geniuses are I have become convinced our ideas of what is normal covers only a very narrow band in the middle. And that tiny section is probably made up of mental health specialists... The rest of us are spread out on either side, and to make it more interesting, probably move around on either side far more often than we realise. Or care to admit.

I've come across a few mental health specialists in my work - I might suggest some of them live well outside that very narrow band.  Flakey, eccentric, neurotic are a few words I might use to describe some of them... I don't doubt they are good at what they do, but I suspect they have all the same 'issues' as us 'normal' folks...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

But my point is they think they are up to deciding how abnormal we are. I think most of the disorders in their big book of strangenesses are just examples of our diversity of mind, and those judges are probably among the weirdest we have. Certainly the ones I've come across are deeply nutty.

I like being insane. It beats the hell out of normal.

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Btw, the doco on Sinead on tvnz streaming is excellent.