Just saw this whilst doing some research:
Having a psychosis does not mean you're nuts. Psychosis is simply a medical term, which means, according to the dictionary:
"any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted"

Hmm...
"Yes Mr Jones, that is correct - you are not crazy, you're just a complete mentaller who has no grasp on any tanglible truths."
"Oh that's good news, doctor."
"I'm not a doctor, Mr Jones. I am your brain. Kill. KILL!"

If being psychotic does not mean you're nuts, what does? Eh?
( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:06, 48 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Being 'balmy' if you're Chompy, apparently.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:10, Reply)

Ah, he has such a sweet, calm view of mental disorders, doesn't he?

( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:10, Reply)

Well being psychotic means you're mentally ill,
so it depends on your definition of "nuts" really.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:11, Reply)

Psychiatrists would take this line
If you're psychotic then most conventional thinking would say you need medicating, which I'd say is the definition of being mentally ill - whether you need medication. Of course the concept of needing psychiatric drugs is controversial across society in general.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:24, Reply)

Hmmm
you could argue that in a meaningless reality everyone is psychotic as they ascribe their own personal meaning in order to get through. Since everyone is insane, it's simply a matter of degree, and even that is subjective.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:11, Reply)

You could, but it'll be a pointless argument, which is wrong.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:12, Reply)

It is rather unhelpful
I meant to write something in between that and what Kristine wrote below. Everyone's psychotic at some point.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:21, Reply)

No they're not,
mental illness isn't just feeling a bit funny occasionaly, its an actual diagnosable, testable, real thing. Even though it affects a lot of people at some point in their lives it doesn't affect everyone.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:23, Reply)

Having a psychotic diagnosis myself
I of course know this is true. There's being a bit funny every now and again and fullblown 24/7 reality doing a u-turn and ending up in the gutter.

However I see little bouts of psychosis erupting everywhere. Everyone's a bit mad. But maybe that's my own paranoia..
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:26, Reply)

get away from me you mental

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:28, Reply)

Nearly everyone on here reckons they're a mental.
Usually bi polar though. Ha, like that's real! But anyway I think it's time I got checked out. I don't like being the odd one out.

I thought I may have had a bit of that autism but it turns out I'm just arrogant and don't like people very much.
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Wed 10 Feb 2010, 16:26, Reply)

Oh dear. Not they're not.

( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:27, Reply)

Not they're not?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Very not.

( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:42, Reply)

Sure they are
Never acted on a paranoid impulse before and wondered afterwards how stupid you were?
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:30, Reply)

Oh please don't do this
you're only embarrassing yourself. Also, I'll bet you don't have enough waitressing qualifications to earn yourself a visa and therefore you aren't eligible for this argument.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:32, Reply)

?
Don't understand a word you're saying
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:33, Reply)

That's probably because you're too busy
smacking the palm of your hand against your forehead while belming and going "UMMMMNNNNNGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

You mental.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:35, Reply)

finishing a mug of tea and making a rollup
and calling the mentally ill "lolmentalbelmers" in some crap ironic way or whatever is not very funny
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:37, Reply)

It's OK if you have qualifications in dealing with people who have mental health issues.
I do, and Al's borrowing them.
( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:39, Reply)

I most certainly am not
I'm going to stick to my own mad SkillZ in dog tripping and immigration restrictions.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:40, Reply)

On or off your bike?

( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:41, Reply)

Always on my bike, Clendrix.
Always, always, on my bike.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:43, Reply)

OH NO!!!!!
It's okay to make jokes about things that don't affect you, but it stops being funny as soon as it gets personal, is that it?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:39, Reply)

Nice relation of psychosis with voices saying "kill, kill" btw

(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:34, Reply)

Thank you :)
*curtsies*
( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:40, Reply)

You gone dun a BAD thing Momma

(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:43, Reply)

Oh dear, not again.
Perhaps I am being a bit PSYCHOTIC at the moment:
it's all bad it's all good my defensive splitting mechanisms are all to fuck I've projected the wrong shit into the wrong object where are my meds
( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:47, Reply)

I say brace the insanity
but then i'm mental me
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:16, Reply)

I reckon many normal people can have psychosis, like when my housemate threw away my leftover chinese
I was ready to kill, good thing she wasn't home or it would've been so on.
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:17, Reply)

She did WHAT?!
tell me it wasnt duck based...that would be tragic
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:19, Reply)

it wasn't but it was the first in WEEKS, and it was my favorite and I was drunk and it was allllllll I wanted
:(
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I can only hope you would have wrestled her to the floor
and then her night dress would have torn and suddenly you would have both been moving you hips like yeah and nodding your head like yeah and yeah-eh-yeah-eh-yeah-ye-yeah it's a party in the USA.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:22, Reply)

I reckon it would've been something like that

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Awww man
I'm so glad she wasn't home then. That would have been awful.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:29, Reply)

especially if there were witnesses, that's a private thing really

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:36, Reply)

It should be kept well within the confines of the USA
otherwise all the other countries will get jealous and will either want their own parties, or they'll want to join in yours, and there just isn't enough room for everyone else to join in and Party in Germany just doesn't sound as cool.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:38, Reply)

I remember when being mental was so much simpler.
*sighs*
( girlinthehole, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:29, Reply)

I was much simpler when I was a mental.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:33, Reply)

You were easier to control, too.

( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:39, Reply)

Indeed I was
all you had to do was offer me a pint or the promise of seeing some boobs or getting a grope (above or beneath clothes, I didn't mind) and I would be putty in your hands. Unless you needed me to be something harder, in which case I was perfectly happy to oblige.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:42, Reply)

*nostalgises*

( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:43, Reply)

I'd fucking nostle your gises.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:43, Reply)

*swoons*

( thealternativefact, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:48, Reply)

I had a psycotic episode once
and I thought everyone was speaking a strange new language and all the colours came out of the carpet and were linked in the air to all the other colours in the room - man, I was the victim of someone else's bad decorating choices that day.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 15:01, Reply)

Fortunately I got some peer group therapy online and was cured by the power of positive thinking.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 15:47, Reply)

"I'm not a doctor, Mr Jones. I am your brain. Kill. KILL!"
Fucking beautiful, that.

Edit - and this: "lolmentalbelmers"
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Wed 10 Feb 2010, 16:29, Reply)

er
Define "nuts".
(kitescreech still here, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 20:00, Reply)