“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results”. Quoted by Albert Einstein, he believed that repeating the same actions would lead to ones insanity and lead to further madness. Insanity has always been a mystery to doctors, never knowing what the exact cause is. Although the question is not how one becomes insane, but what they were exposed too. Insanity is a scary unknown that puts fear into the public; because no one knows the exact meaning of insanity. To become insane, one must be exposed to a traumatic experience that scars your very mind. Insanity is looked upon today as an identification of someone who doesn’t belong in normal day society. When it gets to the point where you become dangerous to not only to others but to yourself as well, then that person is on the path of madness. In the Webster dictionary the definition of insanity is “severe mental illness: the condition of being insane”. With the word being in …show more content…
Although as you can imagine insane means the opposite, not normal. The word insane has evolved through time to a point where it’s identified with mental illness. This does not mean a person has an unhealthy brain, it means that the part of your brain that deals with reasoning is impaired. Some say babies are born with insanity, this however is false. The baby has not yet encountered any trauma of society that would lead to madness. Becoming insane takes time and it takes a very strong emotional incident to trigger it. For example Jeffery Dahmer is commonly known as an insane serial killer, but he was not born nor did he just wake up and decided to kill people. In Jeffery’s early child hood it shows the pre stages of insanity from capturing small animals and tearing them apart. As time passes Jeffery’s life crumbles from his own madness and this is just shows how powerful insanity can be and how it can ruin your life in an