[Repeal The 17th]

I had a job when I was 18 years old as a night attendant in an insane asylum.

Yes, that is true, it was over 40 years ago.

I learned early on that it was a complete and utter waste of time and resources
to try to “understand” why crazy people are crazy.

[the invisib1e hand]

but when an otherwise demonstrably intelligent person does something “insane”, you look for an explanation.

[D-fendr]

Paraphrasing a writer I cannot remember:

Normal people are normal in the same way; crazy people are crazy in a million different ones.