Insanity:perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world?

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That's a quotation from R.D.Laing, a British Psychiatrist. I wonder If we were rational enough to become nuts at age 3.

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If that is insanity, then consider me insane. I always try to make sense of things, I have done it since I was a child. I would look at seemingly random things and make patterns. I would look at an odd looking tree and see the Fibonacci sequence. I would always find order, and when I can't find any order, I would get upset, and try and get away from the irrational, randomness.

To me, nothing can be absolutely random, it all fits certain patterns just to fool a "normal" persons mind to make them think that it is completely impossible to find a pattern.
I find beauty in structure and order, and non-structured things are ugly.

Patterns, indeed.

That's precisely why, though I am in no sense religious, I cannot conceive of the universe as having come into being by accident. There are too many clear and obvious patterns here. There must be a designer behind it at some level. Too see so many patterns and still claim they just 'happened' seems the pinnacle of stubbornness and stupidity to me.

There are theories that insanity can actually propel someone to higher mental states/enlightenment when it is overcome and that it is actually a natural part of mental evolution. People who are depressed are actually much more realistic about the way life is than people who aren't, but in order to function, it must be overcome. Realism + inner peace = enlightenment.

What types of insanity are we talking about?