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First of all, in the 1960s-1970s, the insanity defense was overused by attorneys of those attempting to escape punishment. So the rules on the use of an insanity defense were considerably tightened up.

To make matters worse, this was when the ACLU succeeded in forcing many States to release mentally ill patients from insane asylums, which suddenly the States were all in favor of as well, as it saved them a lot of money.

By the late 1970s into the 1980s, there was a blow back, in which more frivolous attempts to evade justice with an insanity defense were used, such as in infamous “Twinkie defense” (which worked, BTW).

But since States would no longer commit most of the insane, what resulted was the “guilty but insane” prosecution, in which those who were clearly insane were put in prison, unless they were so insane that they would be put in cold storage, drugged to unconsciousness and kept in that state perpetually until death.

However, in the issue at hand, there exists a clear and clinical reason for temporary insanity. Anyone could be driven temporarily nuts with vacillations of their hormones like that. And it is clearly a temporary state, in that they will almost certainly go back to normal on their own.

But if they are treated *initially* as attempting or succeeding with a *criminal* act, the forensic evidence of a blood test taken during the window of opportunity may be lost. This is my argument, that it should *first* be treated clinically, and quickly, so that if it is hormone caused temporary insanity, the test alone will prove it beyond any doubt.

Again, from my own experience, the woman who went temporarily insane did have a blood test. Her hormone levels were so far out of whack that they assumed the test was in error. It wasn’t as was shown by a second test. She ended up with a lot of prescription drugs and was under observation for days, even though she quickly returned to normal with the drugs.

As far as severe depression and despondency, it is a lot worse than typical chronic depression, again because it is chemically induced. Someone in that state is clearly a risk to themselves or others, and must be confined until they can be medicated.

In short, they are very dangerous, and should not be around any sharp object, and you shouldn’t turn your back on them. They may even come across as sane for a while, but they are anything but. Again, this is stuff that can be determined by a blood test, it is so severe.

But unless that blood test is made at the right time, no one will know for sure. Otherwise, they could be just a criminal, or permanently insane.