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  2. Insanity - Wikipedia

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    Insanity is generally no defense in a civil lawsuit, but an insane plaintiff can toll the statute of limitations for filing a suit until gaining sanity, or until a statute of repose has run. Feigning Feigned insanity is the simulation of mental illness in order to deceive.

  3. Mad as a hatter - Wikipedia

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    An adaptation of the Old English word atter meaning "poison", and closely related to the word adder for the venomous crossed viper. Lexicographers William and Mary Morris in Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (1977) favour this derivation because "mad as a hatter" was known before hat making was a recognized trade. [ 1 ]

  4. Insane - Wikipedia

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  5. History of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    The term "crazy" (from Middle English meaning cracked) and insane (from Latin insanus meaning unhealthy) came to mean mental disorder in this period. The term "lunacy", long used to refer to periodic disturbance or epilepsy, came to be synonymous with insanity. "Madness", long in use in root form since at least the early centuries AD, and ...

  6. Mental disorder - Wikipedia

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    The proportion with access to professional help for mental disorders is far lower, however, even among those assessed as having a severe psychiatric disability. [64] Disability in this context may or may not involve such things as: Basic activities of daily living. Including looking after the self (health care, grooming, dressing, shopping ...

  7. Insane (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Insane behavior, or insanity, is characterized by abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insane may also refer to: Music. Insane or the title song, by Syron Vanes ...

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  9. Lunatic - Wikipedia

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    Lunatic is a term referring to a person who is seen as mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, [1] [2] or crazy—conditions once attributed to "lunacy". The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck". [3] [4] [5]