Not necessarily. Ever seen the movie “A Beautiful Mind”? He had no idea his family and friends were figments of a schizophrenic imagination. Just reading about it in a textbook wouldn’t have solved his problem, since he had not yet received any information persuading him that anything was fishy.
Edit: But my definition does change how one would go through evaluating whether one was insane. They’d read a book and do what they could to detect anything tricky, like anosognosia or schitzophrenia.
Edit: Once I’m used to commenting, maybe I’ll edit less frequently. I apologize to anyone annoyed by this. I decided a more precise way of summarizing my response is a person can still be concerned about whether they have the capabilities to recognize the symptoms.
Not necessarily. Ever seen the movie “A Beautiful Mind”? He had no idea his family and friends were figments of a schizophrenic imagination. Just reading about it in a textbook wouldn’t have solved his problem, since he had not yet received any information persuading him that anything was fishy.
Edit: But my definition does change how one would go through evaluating whether one was insane. They’d read a book and do what they could to detect anything tricky, like anosognosia or schitzophrenia.
Edit: Once I’m used to commenting, maybe I’ll edit less frequently. I apologize to anyone annoyed by this. I decided a more precise way of summarizing my response is a person can still be concerned about whether they have the capabilities to recognize the symptoms.