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Example sentences for: insanity

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It has become one of the DSM 's most popular disorders, in part because it is so very useful to its diagnosees: It makes them eligible for insurance-reimbursed therapy, for instance, and it can bolster an insanity defense.
Such ebullitions of insanity continued for three decades, becoming more rococo.
A plea on groups of insanity, in a newspaper report of a criminal trial, is promptly dismissed by the mind and substituted with “grounds.”
1917, 9th ed.: Insanity characterized by loss or impairment of intellect, will, and memory.
Paradoxically, though, while it's often used as part of insanity pleas, PTSD implies not that its victims are crazy, but rather that they aren't . Before PTSD became a recognized disorder, after all, a Vietnam veteran suffering from hallucinatory flashbacks and wild mood swings looked, to the benighted layperson at least, nuts.