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** ComicBook/TheJoker is declared sane by a StrawmanPolitical psychiatrist (since with Batman gone, he had nothing to do but mope around the asylum). The Joker takes the opportunity to gas the studio where the psychiatrist is insulting Batman, killing him, the host, and the audience.
** ComicBook/TwoFace receives plastic surgery to restore the damaged half of his face, paid for by The Wayne Foundation. The psychiatrist treating the Joker declares him sane and releases him. He scratches both sides of his coin, feeling the darkness has consumed him and Harvey Dent is gone. At least both sides match.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanWhiteKnight'': After an intense chase and a beatdown, Batman forces a handful of pills down The Joker's throat. This cures his psychosis, which is confirmed by psychiatrists. The first thing he does is sue Gotham City, GCPD and Batman. The next thing he does is fight crime and run for office as the titular White Knight. [[spoiler:The original]] Harley Quinn, reminding us she is, after all, a psychiatrist, explains he has a chemical imbalance, so he has to keep taking that combination of pills to keep from reverting back to the Joker.

* ''Literature/{{Edgedancer}}'' (a novella of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): A downplayed example with [[spoiler:Nale]] - Lift does manage to bring him back to a semblance of sanity, enough for a HeelRealization and a sober conversation, but he admits that his mind is still slipping and his ultimate fate is left uncertain as he leaves in a hurry.

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* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': The episode "Lucky" starts with a debate at a criminal asylum as to whether one of their inmates can be declared sane. He's been symptom-free for several years thanks to the constant counseling and anti-psychotic drugs provided, but they know that if he stops that regimen, he's likely to act out his violent fantasies again. Ultimately, they decide that they can't ''technically'' declare him sane, but since he was committed as a minor and has turned 18, they legally have to release him, so he's declared sane on a technicality.

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Alicia Baker goes through this. She's declared cured of her mental illness after a year in [[BedlamHouse Belle Reve]]. She goes from being an unstable {{Yandere}} to being remorseful for her actions and somewhat functional, despite the fact that her doctor is actually slowly become a yandere towards her. The problem is that she's now ''just'' a terrified teenager with terrible judgement, which lead her to make some brash and selfish decisions when placed in a bind, which she later realizes were idiotic.

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* In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings 2'' your character can get the rather common (and hilarious) Insane trait which starts all sorts of funny events, and usually is incurable. But there is a rare event which lets you seduce a rose bush. You can then decide to either make love with the bush or realize that you have gone utterly bonkers. Realising it has a slim chance of getting you your sanity back
* In ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', if your character's Nightmare stat rises too high they will temporarily go insane and enter "A state of some confusion". [[note]]If you have any Memories of Light in your inventory, you'll go to the much less punishing [[DreamLand Mirror-Marches]] instead.[[/note]]It's actually a ThroughTheEyesOfMadness version of the Royal Bethlehem Hotel, a 5-star hotel where TheMentallyDisturbed can stay for free. When your character recovers, the game states that they "would no longer be considered insane by most citizens of Fallen London".

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Harley's Holiday", Harley Quinn receives a clean bill of mental health and is thus paroled. Harley declares she is a ReformedCriminal and, thinking her outfit (rather than her pet hyenas) was freaking out passersby, she buys a new outfit but leaves before the security tag can be removed which sets off the alarm, so the clerk sends a security guard to remove the tag. Harley thinks she's being arrested again, panics and sets off a chain of events that cause her to kidnap Veronica Vreeland and subsequently return to crime. At the end, her psychiatrist states she is on a path to recovery.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Bender and Fry plead insanity to being accomplices to armed robbery. The judge sentences them both to be committed to a robot asylum, as the human asylums were full after the same judge declared poverty a mental illness. Bender plays along, but Fry goes insane and starts thinking and acting like a robot, which gets him declared sane and released.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanVillainsSecretFilesAndOrigins'', an innocent man is declared guilty of a particularly gruesome murder and sent to Arkham Asylum. His lawyer, however, fights back and successfully gets a court order for his release. Unfortunately, by that time the man has been subjected to countless denigrations and electroshock therapy, rendering him a pitiable madman no different from any of the Asylum's regular inhabitants.

* ''Film/TheGreenMile'': Bank robber and murderer [[strike:Billy the Kid]] "Wild Bill" Wharton is deemed mentally competent to stand trial for his crimes and is sentenced to death.

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** In her {{backstory}} episode "Mad Love", Dr. Harleen Quinzel diagnoses ComicBook/TheJoker as ObfuscatingInsanity. Though she believes his stories, falls in love with him and becomes his girlfriend/henchwoman, it's implied she's right.
** In "Sideshow", Killer Croc was reclassified as sane and thus guilty of his crimes, so that he could be sentenced to a term in Levitz Prison instead of [[CardboardPrison Arkham Asylum]]. However, he soon escapes from the train that was supposed to take him there.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Stark Raving Dad", due to a laundry accident, Homer wears a pink shirt to work and must fill out a psychiatric survey. He's too lazy and instead has Bart do it, who fills it out with answers that highlight Homer's ''multiple'' issues to the point of making him sound insane, which causes him to be institutionalized. When Marge proves to the doctors Bart exists and is not Homer's delusions, Homer is released. His psychiatrist apologises for the ordeal and declares him sane. Homer asks -- and receives -- this declaration in writing, but has difficulty washing off the "INSANE" stamp the staff put on his hand.

Compare BoredWithInsanity and SanitySlippage.