Sanity.

Alright /adv/,

I was hoping someone here could shed some light on an area of confusion for me.

I have no obsessions. No compulsions. I do not have nightmares. I have no phobias. I've never been depressed. I've never been addicted to anything, or even felt a craving that could be attributed to addiction.

I don't fear anything without a proper reason to, founded in logic or experience and even then I usually just err on the cautious side.

When I go to sleep at night I enter a black void and wake up feeling electric.

I'll go to a party and smoke a half pack of cigarettes and a cigar in the morning then go a month without thinking about tobacco.

I've never been prescribed any three letter syndromes or medication of any kind.

Despite all this, it seems like everyone I know has some irrational phobia, OCD, ADD, addiction, or other compulsion. Kleptomaniacs, pathological liars. Nearly everyone I know. They get frustrated when I can't understand them.

I just don't get it /adv/. I can't even begin to imagine the mind of someone afflicted by any of these things. I don't understand phobias or obsessions or addictions. I just can't rationalize or begin to empathize.

As far as I can tell, and noone I know will disagree, the only issues I have are minor social and personality flaws. A little procrastination, a little hesitation to commit to a relationship. Those sorts of things. And I've overcome all of them at one time or another if I had a good enough reason.

So is it arrogant for me to feel more sane than everyone around me?

It's only arrogant if you really consider a person's mental health record to be an important factor in determining the quality of their character.  By itself, a diagnosis of mental illness shouldn't be enough to devalue a person.  I suppose it's not entirely unreasonable to feel superior to someone whose capabilities are limited by psychological dysfunction, but I'd still call you an asshole for it.