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This can happen to someone with real issues that were genuinely resolved, medicated away or declared "fixed" by quacks to be NotYourProblem; it can also happen to someone who is sane, whether by being mistakenly committed to an asylum or a psychiatrist seeing they are ObfuscatingInsanity for reasons such as copping an InsanityDefense.

* In ''Batman Villains: Secret Files and Origins'', 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.

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* ''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.

** The Penguin is mentally tortured and brainwashed in Arkham Asylum into acting docile and non-violent, then given a declaration of sanity and released. He meets his biological father, then snaps when his father is murdered by his step-mother.

* ''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 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.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanWhiteKnight'': After an intense chase and a beatdown, Batman forces a handful of pills down The Joker's throat. This completely and permanently 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 as the titular White Knight.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanTheWhiteKnight'': After an intense chase and a beatdown, Batman forces a handful of pills down The Joker's throat. This completely and permanently 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.

* ''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 nervous and instead has Bart do it, who fills it out wrong to make Homer sound insane and causes him to be institutionalised. 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.

* ''Literature/{{Edgedancer}}'' has an 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In one episode, Boomhauer, asleep while floating in an inner tube on a trip to a lake, drifts downstream while sleeping until he ends up under a bridge in a city centre. Wearing only a speedo and his MotorMouth speech pattern cause him to be involuntarily committed for 72 hours for psych evaluation. Too embarrassed to call Hank for help, he calls Dale instead. Dale bribes a patient with cigarettes to take his place and sneak in... and can't get out. Dale and Boomhauer call Bill to sort everything out, but Bill finds a flyer for voluntary commitment and commits himself. When their escape attempt fails, they call Hank, who sorts everything out and explains Boomhauer was only committed for 72 hours, which had since expired and Boomhauer was deemed not a danger to himself or others so he was free to go, Dale was never actually admitted to the hospital so legally, he was free to go (though the doctor felt Dale should keep taking his medication) and Bill voluntarily committed himself (but apparently forgot this fact), so he could leave at any time.

** Barbara Kean is treated at Arkham, then released as cured. She is explicitly ''not'' sane. Barbara thinks she fooled Dr. Strange; Dr. Strange explains to his assistant that he knows damn well she isn't rehabilitated and is knowingly and deliberately releasing a violently unstable patient into society ForTheEvulz.

** Barbara Kean is treated at Arkham, then released as cured. She is explicitly ''not'' sane. Barbara thinks she fooled Dr. Strange; Dr. Strange explains to his assistant that he is knowingly and deliberately releasing a violently unstable patient into society ForTheEvulz.

** Yet he's alive and well in the institution at the start of ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther'', where he's "cured" by [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated the news of Clouseau's death]] and released.
* ''Film/PsychoII'': After being institutionalised in the first film, Norman Bates is released, having been declared cured. He snaps and begins murdering again.

** ComicBook/TwoFace receives plastic surgery to restore the damaged half of his face. 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/TheDarkKnightReturns'': The Joker 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.

** In ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', he is released and goes insane because of Clouseau, but is disintegrated at the end;

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': "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.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': 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.

* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'': Starting with ''Film/AShotInTheDark'', Chief Inspector Dreyfus is committed to an asylum at the film's end, having been driven insane by Clouseau. He's released in the following film, ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'', having been "cured", only to be undone by meeting Clouseau again and winds up back in the asylum by the film's end. In ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', he is released and goes insane because of Clouseau, but is disintegrated at the end, yet is alive and well in the institution at the start of ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther'', where he's "cured" and released.

* ''Film/{{Psycho}} 2'': After being institutionalised in the first film, Norman Bates is released, having been declared cured. He snaps and begins murdering again.

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