insanity?

Has your mind ever sunk into the deepest recess of thought, probed so far and so deep that it buried itself inside a bottomless pit of questions and fear? Has it ever reached a point where it is so tangled and confused that expression itself is laboured and impossible? It can only reel around beating itself to death, slowing down due to exhaustion, crumbling away into nothingness and black oblivion. At this point knowledge lies forgotten and wisdom turns tail and flees. Everything you have taken for granted throughout your life slowly fades away, confused and hurt. It feels like your rights have been stripped from here, rights more fundamental than legal rights or even human rights. These are rights to your individuality, rights to your very existence and to your definition. Freedom of expression is destroyed, not to the world at large, but to yourself. Your own mind refuses to communicate to itself, hemmed in and blockaded by information, as it lies distraught, unable to communicate even with itself….. is this what insanity is?