Signs She's Crazy

The 10 Signs She's Crazy (Starring Amanda Bynes)

May 2013





So Amanda Bynes (of Nickelodeon quasi-fame) is having a hard time of things, and it’s getting kind of dark and messy. There are strange feuds happening, baseless accusations being hurled and a weird, defensive Twitter account updating itself near-constantly.Life is hard. Sometimes we go through phases in which we don’t deal with things particularly well, or in which we alienate ourselves with strange behaviors. Mental illnesses of both the diagnosed and undiagnosed types are not uncommon, and their sufferers often find themselves absent of care. It gets kind of (as Gawker’s Caity Weaver put it ) macabre. It’s unfortunate.To recognize that things are unfortunate, though, is not the same as inviting unfortunate things into one’s own life. Though it might seem, on the surface, that there is one way to be sane and a near-infinite number of ways to be otherwise, the truth often approaches the reverse. Crazy has patterns. There are behaviors and signals that are common to the troubled and the unhinged, and it helps to recognize them.Because as compassionate as we may want to be, picking up broken glass and repainting defaced walls are few people’s idea of a pleasant Sunday.