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* ''Fanfic/BurningSecret'': Discussed when Lincoln wonders if the reason the blackmailer wants him to smash Flip's window is to make him look like he went insane from the stress of the fire.
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* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': Implied for one of Lord Darigan's prisoners, known as "Number Five". He is thought to be insane and locked up in the prison due to ranting about a place called [[LevelAte Jelly World]], however, Jelly World actually ''does'' exist but a RunningGag is the creators denying it.
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* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': Implied for one of Lord Darigan's prisoners, known as "Number Five". He is thought to be insane and locked up in the prison due to ranting about a place called [[LevelAte Jelly World]], however, World]]. Jelly World actually ''does'' exist (it's a hidden area of the site that isn't shown on any map), but a RunningGag is unfortunately for Number Five, most people in Neopia don't know that it's real, and even the creators denying it.site staff claim that Jelly World doesn't exist as a RunningGag.
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* In ''Literature/RealMermaids'', Jade's dad finds a book on mers that includes an article from 1908 about a man who tried to jump off a cliff into the ocean. After he was "rescued," he said he was a merman who was trying to return to the ocean. He was taken to a mental hospital, where he was drugged and electrocuted and spent the rest of his life in a catatonic state.
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* In ''There's No Such Thing'' by Creator/PaulJennings, the main character's granddad is thought to be senile and sent to a nursing home because he keeps ranting about a dragon. His grandson finds out that there ''is'' a dragon, but she's now dead. He takes an object he finds to the nursing home, which turns out to be her egg, and it hatches into a baby dragon.
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* In ''There's No Such Thing'' ''Literature/TheresNoSuchThing'' by Creator/PaulJennings, the main character's granddad is thought to be senile and sent to a nursing home because he keeps ranting about a dragon. His grandson finds out that there ''is'' a dragon, but she's now dead. He takes an object he finds to the nursing home, which turns out to be her egg, and it hatches into a baby dragon.
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* When Danny first shows up in ''Series/IronFist2017'' claiming to be the heir to a mammoth company who went missing and was presumed dead 15 years earlier while looking like a hobo and having no ID, everyone presumes he is out of his mind. After he's committed to a mental institution, the psychiatrist there assumes the same at first... until he checks on some details of Danny's claims and sees that they are things that only the real Danny Rand could have known. Unfortunately at that point Danny starts talking more about how he avoided death in the plane crash that killed his parents, and his story about being found, rescued, and taken in by magical kung fu monks living kinda in the mountains but also in AnotherDimension promptly makes the doctor decide that while Danny really is Danny Rand, he's also had some kind of break with reality.
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* ''Film/SuitableFlesh'': Beth believes that Asa's belief that his father is swapping bodies with him, and his personality changes when it happens, are the result of a dissociative disorder. Later, Beth herself is believed by Dani to be suffering a psychotic break when she's the one trying to warn people about the entity trying to steal her body. [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding And at the end of the movie]], Dani is locked away in a padded room after being trapped in Beth's body, likewise written off as having lost her mind.]]
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* At one point during ''The Witch's Daughter'', the authorities think that the eponymous girl, Perdita, is "a wild little thing, half-crazed", but she's actually in shock.
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* At one point during ''The Witch's Daughter'', ''Literature/TheWitchsDaughter'', the authorities think that the eponymous girl, Perdita, is "a wild little thing, half-crazed", but she's actually in shock.
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* ''Film/{{Elf}}'': Buddy's claims that he's an elf from the North Pole who works for Santa make people whom he meets understandably think he's nuts after they realize he isn't joking. A doctor he sees theorizes that it's EmotionalRegression.
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** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare At 20,000 Feet]]", Mr. Robert Wilson, sees a bulky, furry creature on the wing trying to destroy the engine. When he tries to tell the other passengers including his wife, they all think he's losing his mind. It doesn't help that he's just been discharged from a mental asylum.
** Zig-zagged in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E115TheNewExhibit The New Exhibit]]". It is left ambiguous whether Martin, his wife, and his friends were killed by the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke, and William Hare or if he really did go insane, kill everyone, and commit suicide after being told that the museum would be torn down and replaced with a shopping market.
** Zig-zagged in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E115TheNewExhibit The New Exhibit]]". It is left ambiguous whether Martin, his wife, and his friends were killed by the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke, and William Hare or if he really did go insane, kill everyone, and commit suicide after being told that the museum would be torn down and replaced with a shopping market.
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** Zig-zagged in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E13TheNewExhibit The New Exhibit]]". It is left ambiguous whether Martin, his wife, and his friends were killed by the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke, and William Hare or if he really did go insane, kill everyone, and commit suicide after being told that the museum would be torn down and replaced with a shopping market.
** In"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E3NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare At 20,000 Feet]]", Mr. Robert Wilson, sees a bulky, furry creature on the wing trying to destroy the engine. When he tries to tell the other passengers including his wife, they all think he's losing his mind. It doesn't help that he's just been discharged from a mental asylum.
** Zig-zagged in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E115TheNewExhibit The New Exhibit]]". It is left ambiguous whether Martin, his wife, and his friends were killed by the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke, and William Hare or if he really did go insane, kill everyone, and commit suicide after being told that the museum would be torn down and replaced with a shopping market.asylum.
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** Zig-zagged in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E115TheNewExhibit The New Exhibit]]". It is left ambiguous whether Martin, his wife, and his friends were killed by the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke, and William Hare or if he really did go insane, kill everyone, and commit suicide after being told that the museum would be torn down and replaced with a shopping market.
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* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'': [[YourSoulIsMine Soul loss]] slowly destroys the SanityMeter and Willpower before it reduces the victim to an EmptyShell, making {{Muggles}} easily mistake them for TheMentallyDisturbed. Given the CrapsackWorld, many CrazyHomelessPeople are actually the victims of various soul-stealing monsters.
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* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'': [[YourSoulIsMine Soul loss]] slowly destroys the SanityMeter and Willpower before it reduces the victim to an EmptyShell, making {{Muggles}} easily mistake them for TheMentallyDisturbed.TheMentallyDisturbed or {{Addled Addict}}s. Given the CrapsackWorld, many CrazyHomelessPeople are actually the victims of various soul-stealing monsters.
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* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'': [[YourSoulIsMine Soul loss]] slowly destroys the SanityMeter and Willpower before it reduces the victim to an EmptyShell, making {{Muggles}} easily mistake them for TheMentallyDisturbed. Given the CrapsackWorld, many CrazyHomelessPeople are actually the victims of various soul-stealing monsters.
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* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'': [[YourSoulIsMine Soul loss]] slowly destroys the SanityMeter and Willpower before it reduces the victim to an EmptyShell, making {{Muggles}} easily mistake them for TheMentallyDisturbed. Given the CrapsackWorld, many CrazyHomelessPeople are actually the victims of various soul-stealing monsters.
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* ''Film/ShallWePlay'': Stacy's [[ISeeDeadPeople ability to see spirits]] was misidentified as psychosis, resulting in her being [[MedicateTheMedium medicated for this]] as supposed {{hallucinations}}.
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* In ''Peter Fleming Meets Doctor Who'', Fleming describes two occasions when he saw kids in a playground playing at ''Series/DoctorWho'' and realised how important the show was ... before adding that, at the time, he just thought they'd all gone mad, and called the police.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS14E3GuyRobot Guy, Robot]]", Peter and his pals go to a '50s-style asylum to look for Peter's old mattress. A PsychoPsychologist takes DeliberateValuesDissonance to an extreme and wrongly declares Peter, Cleveland, and Joe insane for being friends with a black person, being friends with a white person, and being crippled, respectively.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS14E3GuyRobot Guy, Robot]]", Peter and his pals go to a '50s-style asylum to look for Peter's old mattress. A PsychoPsychologist takes DeliberateValuesDissonance to an extreme and wrongly declares Peter, Cleveland, and Joe insane for being friends with a black person, being friends with speaking up to a white person, and being crippled, respectively.
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** In later seasons, the characters wise up and realize that just because someone is seeing things doesn't mean they're crazy, considering all the things they've already seen out in the galaxy. When Jonas Quinn sees weird insectoid creatures crawling around the base and tells General Hammond, Hammond immediately orders the base locked down, not taking any chances (the creatures turn out to be benign and only exist in another phase of reality, Jonas just started seeing them after touching a device that enables this sight; chaos comes from humans starting to see what they aren't meant to).
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S3E4Legacy Legacy]]", Daniel is infected with leeches that are engineered to target Goa'uld symbiotes but have side effects when they're present inside a human body. He starts rambling and seeing things, and a psychiatrist incorrectly diagnoses him with schizophrenia.
--> '''Daniel Jackson:''' Why are you so quick to jump to the conclusion I'm crazy? That I'm dangerous, I'm out of control? It's 'cause I'm kinda acting that way, aren't I? I just…I just need to get these drugs out of my system. Look, Doctor, I know you probably hear this from patients all the time, but I think I'm cured.
--> '''Daniel Jackson:''' Why are you so quick to jump to the conclusion I'm crazy? That I'm dangerous, I'm out of control? It's 'cause I'm kinda acting that way, aren't I? I just…I just need to get these drugs out of my system. Look, Doctor, I know you probably hear this from patients all the time, but I think I'm cured.
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* ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles''. This is what causes the demise of the Second Expedition to Mars, when the humans get euthanized by a Martian psychiatrist due to their 'delusion' of coming from another planet. Unfortunately insane Martians can manifest their delusions in physical form, so even their rocketship doesn't convince him. When the rocketship remains after the humans are killed, the alarmed Martian is convinced he's been infected by their insanity and shoots himself as well.
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* ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles''. This is what causes the demise of the Second Expedition to Mars, when the humans get euthanized by a Martian psychiatrist doctor due to their 'delusion' of coming from another planet. Unfortunately insane Martians can manifest their delusions in physical form, so even their rocketship doesn't convince him. When the rocketship remains after the humans are killed, the alarmed Martian is convinced he's been infected by their insanity and shoots himself as well.
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* ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles''. This is what causes the demise of the Second Expedition to Mars, when the humans get euthanized by a Martian psychiatrist due to their 'delusion' of coming from another planet. Unfortunately insane Martians can manifest their delusions in physical form, so even showing their rocketship doesn't convince him. When the rocketship remains after the humans are killed, the alarmed Martian is convinced he's been infected by their insanity and shoots himself as well.
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* ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles''. This is what causes the demise of the Second Expedition to Mars, when the humans get euthanized by a Martian psychiatrist due to their 'delusion' of coming from another planet. Unfortunately insane Martians can manifest their delusions in physical form, so even showing their rocketship doesn't convince him. When the rocketship remains after the humans are killed, the alarmed Martian is convinced he's been infected by their insanity and shoots himself as well.
