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It's not insane. By definition, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

He changed his sleeping routine and had a homosexual relationship, found out they didn't work out for him, gave up on them. Nothing insane about that.



> By definition, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results

That's a pithy cliched phrase, but it's not the definition.

One really needs to read through the DSM (it's a flawed political document firmly embedded in the prejudices of its day (i.e. today) that's more pre-scientific taxonomy than science), but the short version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity

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...


> By definition, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

No, that's a pithy quote attributed to Einstein.

The actual definition of insanity is very different.




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