Madness isn't what others say you have.

From the wiki:

Adrian Schoolcraft (born 1976) is a suspended New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who secretly recorded police conversations from 2008 to 2009. He brought these tapes to NYPD investigators in October 2009 as evidence of corruption and wrongdoing within the department. He used the tapes as evidence that arrest quotas were leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests, while the emphasis of fighting crime sometimes resulted in underreporting of crimes to keep the numbers down.

After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was reportedly harassed and reassigned to a desk job. After he left work early one day, an emergency unit entered his apartment, and eventually admitted him to a psychiatric facility, where he was held against his will for six days. In 2010, he released the audio recordings to The Village Voice, leading to the reporting of a multi-part series titled The NYPD Tapes. In 2012 The Village Voice reported that a 2010 unpublished report of an internal NYPD investigation found the 81st precinct had evidence of quotas and underreporting. In 2010 Schoolcraft filed a lawsuit against the NYPD and Jamaica Hospital.

There was also this story previously about a German man committed to a psychiatric facility for "fabricating" allegations of illegal activity at his place of work - allegations that turned out to have some merit. If one wants to increase the adult fear there's what happened to Christine Collins; she was committed to a psychiatric ward despite having definite proof that her returned child was actually an impostor.

From a very young age we're taught to trust authority, and I think it's easy for us to do so because this conceit helps make our lives less uncertain and more comfortable. We don't need to worry about so many things - we can just have someone else do it for us, someone who has the training and resources and permission by the majority. But life is really never so simple and even being a submissive member of society has its price. Being let down by those who should have measured up but didn't, how many have there been who never achieved vindication? How many have there been who have lost things and will never get them back?

It's not just authority figures. Society has the general practice of othering, too.

 We are fed stories everyday and instead of verifying and validating them most of us instead spread them around; that's something we're quite good at, spreading things around. Meanwhile we stick to our small inner ponds, steeped in our own biases,  thinking that the worst will never happen to us because we're good (not just good, amazing) people.

In my experience, we aren't the ones to make that decision. That's why these two quotes have special significance to me:

I don't know which option you should choose. I could never advise you on that... no matter what kind of wisdom dictates you the option you pick, no one will be able to tell if it's right of wrong until you arrive to some sort of outcome from your choice.

 And:

The only thing we're allowed to do is to believe that we won't regret the choice we made.

UPDATE: This seems to  lend more credence to my view on things. 

Even before the Human Genome Project wrapped up in April 2003, scientists have worked overtime to find the gene or genes responsible for autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, ADHD, alcoholism, depression, and other ailments "known" to have major genetic components.

The problem is, many neuropsychiatric ailments that are assumed to have a major genetic component don't seem to have one.

More than a decade after the sequencing of the human genome, there is still no reliable genetic test for autism, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, or any other major neuropsychiatric disorder (except for Huntingon's disease, for which there was already a test, prior to the Human Genome Project). 

... the fact remains that scientists have failed miserably to find genes for schizophrenia, depression, and other major mental disorders.

Let's all have a long think on that. Maybe the real madness is in giving others permission to "get" us - as in, to "understand" us, and in so doing get us to be something or get us to do something.