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Fun and crazy.
Insanity, craziness
or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized
by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity
may manifest as violations of societal norms, including
becoming a danger to themselves and others, though not
all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage
insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal
unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in
the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In
the medical profession the term is now avoided in favor
of diagnoses of specific mental illness such as schizophrenia
and other psychotic disorders. When discussing mental
illness in general terms, "psychopathology"
is considered a preferred descriptor...
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