What is "Normal"?

"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted."
— Aldous Huxley

Rumination Lullaby: Mind River is Self-Cleaning-By Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D. October 12, 2009

“You must realize that thoughts are temporary, changing appearances, and neither seize on them or hate them, just let them occur and cease of themselves.” Bankei

Mind is an information-processing system. As such, it is in the business of digestion – and, not unlike your stomach, sometimes it chokes up on spice of life…Say, something happened – and now it is eating you as you are trying to digest it. The informational tug-of-war is on. No crisis here: same ol’ evolutionary game of the survival of the best-informed.  Look: if you are alive and reading this, you’ve won this contest every time – you’ve eventually swallowed every information byte reality has served you.
Information-processing – like food-processing – is a metabolic process. It has its own pace and rate of...Click anywhere in this sentence to continue reading. . .

Via:  Psych Central