Why Do People Go Insane?

People sometimes become invalids in order to win sympathy and attention. Mrs. McKinley got a feeling of importance by forcing her husband, the President of the United States, to neglect important affairs of state while he reclined on the bed beside her for hours at a time soothing her to sleep. Some authorities declare that people may actually go insane in order to find, in the dream land of insanity, the feeling of importance that has been denied them in the harsh world of reality. There are more patient suffering from mental diseases in the United States than from all other diseases combined.