What are some funny euphemisms for being crazy?
Like nuts , one card missing from his deck.
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Bonkers
Cactus
Funky
here are some good ones, although they are sort of hard to read
and here is another website
I’ve always been fond of “lunatic” because the etymology is the [wrong] idea that the moon makes people mad.
About three bricks shy of a load
Their lights are on but nobody’s home.
His elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.
Estar loco
Insane in the membrane
Insane in the brain
“euphamism” may be stretching it I guess…
Brain hobbled ( just heard that one today for the first time )
Cheese done slipped off his cracker
A few bricks short of a load
Has a screw loose
Lost his marbles
From the shallow end of the gene pool, a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
“He doesn’t run on all cylinders.”
“I think he daylighted his block.” (Threw a rod.)
Gone bananas.
Void.
Bent.
Beserk.
Half a bubble off plumb.
A few fries short of a happy meal
• Two tacos short of a Mexican salad.
• Fuse is lit, but there is no dynamite.
• Off visiting his imaginary friends.
• Major Tom (He’s not on Earth and out 100,000 miles)
• Nuttier than a hoot owl.
• Three sheets to the wind with an ore missing to starboard.
He/she’s got a kangaroo loose in the top paddock.
He/she’s a sandwich short of a picnic.
He/she’s a sausage short of a barbeque.
Nutsy fagin
Wackadoo
Cuckoo for cocoa puffs
Bats in the belfry.
Nutty as a fruitcake.
Batshit crazy.
Off his/her rocker.
Loco (some psychedelic plants are referred to as “Loco Weed”
@Hypo
I always understood “three sheets too the wind” as referring to rip-roarin’ drunk and barely able to stand.
I’ve never heard it used to sub for batshit crazy.
The wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead.
Doo-Lally
Round the bend
Crackers
Mad as a box of frogs
I feel like I have to add that most of these (even the ones I posted) are not really funny and feed stereotypes and fuel gas lighting.
Mental illness is a serious disorder and making fun of people is really not ok.
@Judi You are right but I think most of us would use these – if we use them at all – in cases where a friend or family member is acting temporarily clueless for some reason and not to make fun of the mentally ill. I would hope so in any case. They are more fun as metaphorical speech than something one might actually call someone.
You’re right @janbb but I couldn’t leave my comments out there without qualifying them.
Recently I’ve made aquantance with a woman who’s powerful ex husband has been gas lighting her and his followers have all been calling her “bat shit crazy.” Before the divorce they even tried to get her to voluntarily commit herself. A wise ER nurse told her “honey, you don’t need a psychiatrist, you need a good attorney. ”
The guy has since, as a part of the divorce proceedings been documented as a narcissist and continues to haunt and abuse this woman.
Terms that we may think are funny or playful can do irreparable harm and we can sometimes get sucked into people’s narcissistic games unknowingly when we repeat these things.
Hate to get all serious, I know this was meant to be a fun silly thread, but the longer I left my comments out there the crappier I felt about them.
My mom used the phrase “Toys in the Attic”
@Judi & @janbb You are both absolutely correct. However, especially in casual speech, people do use euphemisms like these. Also, @Tropical Willie’s contribution is an older medico-legal term for those deemed to be less than sane.
Still, the list so far has me laughing my head off. And yet, there is still one more that only those with a rural background would get: three bales shy of a stack.
Their coocoo clock is stuck on 12.
Mad as a hatter.
One can shy of a 6 pack.
Related to @fluthernutter. :P
@IheartMypuppy
Maybe…but sadly accurate!
To be fair, I’m probably not an exception. :P
I’d like to add my 2 cents worth (and I promise not to wait for change), as a mental health advocate for the past 30 years and as one who runs a mental illness facebook page, and also as one who has 3 degrees of mi, I’ve always found that humor contains healing ingredients. Now, should these terms be used around those suffering greatly? Of course not, but for those of us who have “been there done that” I find the terms funny. My favorite? “Spending a week in the Wackateria”! Blessings to all, revbry
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