I can't say I'm familiar with the concept of "compulsory sanity," can you elaborate?
“compulsory sanity” functions similarly to any other “compulsory [insert normative value here]”. it’s the in-built assumption that all brains function in a specific way, and anything outside of that assumption falls into various subcategories of “broken”
it works alongside the pathologisation and medicalisation of certain kinds of mental activity. there is a platonic ideal of mental health that is held up as the normal, and anything else must be treated as deviant until it is returned to the normal state
it’s not that mental illness doesn’t exist. it does. I will happily admit that I’m insane. but compulsory sanity acts like I should always be striving to pretend to be sane, or that I should always be striving towards a specific version of mental wellbeing. rather than being allowed to aim to get rid of the “disorder” part of “obsessive compulsive”, it’s assumed that I’m aiming to get rid of the “compulsive” part
compulsory sanity is an unreachable standard everyone is held to, and it is what prevents us from allowing ourselves to be happily insane if that’s what works for us