This article will make a common, layman who has not read anything about psychology or abnormality to discuss this topic with anyone on the basic issues with quite expertise in views and opinions with the exact knowledge. As it will enlighten you with something that even mute the experts to some extent. ‘Psychological abnormality’ has an elusive nature. Let me define my whole point of the article ‘the crux’ beforehand. [Ab-] means ‘away from’, [norm] means ‘a society’s stated and unstated rules for proper conduct’. These two initial words in “abnormality” confuse the whole branch of clinical psychology or abnormal psychology. How? It is because it is hard to define psychological abnormality. In one society something is norm, while that thing is not a norm in other society making it to be defined as ‘abnormality’. While many definitions of abnormality have been proposed, none has won total acceptance. It is because all these definitions have some certain features in common that are refutable. These certain features are often called “the four D’s”—deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger. That is, the patterns of psychological abnormality are typically ‘deviant’ (unusual, different, extreme or bizarre), but deviant from what? And is ‘distressing’ (upsetting, unpleasant to the person), but what if it is not unpleasant for the person? And is ‘dysfunctional’ (interfering with the person’s ability to conduct daily activities in productive and constructive way), but what if the person is able to perform well in the job and relationships? And is possibly ‘dangerous’, but what if I say, it is an exception rather than the rule? The above refutation (the underscored lines are real concepts in psychology, that I learned through my academic journey. So, defining the abnormality, and calling someone abnormal is not easy by the rule of law/ book. It is because human mind is versatile, its concepts and thinking are unique and thought provoking. Take an example of surfers who swim in icy lakes in Michigan despite bitter cold every weekend from November through February. The colder the weather, the better they like it. One of the men define his experience as ‘he loves the challenge of man against nature, and he believes that the weekly shock is good for the health’. Certainly, these people are different from us, but is their behavior abnormal? Far from experiencing distress, or being deviant, it is not dysfunctional or dangerous at all. But they feel energized and challenged. Abnormal behavior, thoughts, and emotions are those that differ markedly from a society’s ideas about proper functioning. Each society establishes norms – stated and unstated rules for proper conduct. The behavior, thoughts, and emotions that break norms of psychological functioning are called abnormal. Although judgements of abnormality vary from society to society. A society’s norms grow from its particular culture – that includes values, institutions, history, technology, ideals, skills, habits, arts, religion, etc. A society that values competition and assertiveness may accept aggressive behavior, whereas the one that emphasizes on cooperation and gentleness may consider aggressive behavior unacceptable and even abnormal. The values of the society may change over time, causing its views about what is normal to what is abnormal to change as well. Judgements of abnormality depend on specific circumstances as well as on cultural norms, making it be of elusive nature.