Those have been some definitions, but mental illness is a bit more defined these days and covers a lot of different issues, just like "belly ache" can have many causes.

None of the actual conditions of "madness" really equate well to the sort of madness beloved of adventure fiction, which is a very dramatic and easily classifiable malady, ofen involving dramatic backstory. Of course, that's the kind of insanity the Hooded Hood has.




I've talked with schizophrenics who argue that "the voices" would once have placed them in the shamatic tradition and given them a place of honour in society.




I'd probably weight the sentence slightly differently, because I don't think the intent was to push him that way; rather that was an unforseen consequence.




There's pribably a differential in how real they are, like the different between stories idly concelived but never written down and those at are in print format on the shelf.




She would pass any modern sanity test because she follows coherent patterns of logic, can cogently answer with reasons about her actions, and apart from an atypical preception that she insists is real otherwise releates to people and society in a connected manner. If people were locked away today for beliving in things others can't see then every Christian in the world would be in an asylum.




She might be diagnosed somewhere along the autistic spectrum, but a bit shy of actully clincally insane.







Wow, my fingers went a bit rogue on that paragraph, didn't they? It should say:

"She'd have to be assessed as a danger to herself or others..."







There are additional issues about future prophecy, though. Is the future fixed once it is seen? Or can it still change if events are altered? Are some futures set? Is viewing the future changing it?







He won't exist any more once she has left the Celestian's control plane. Bringing in a "guide" is just one of the plane's minor functions. When Mumphrey was there it was his dead wife Madge.