Yes indeed @clayboyn, just because a flock of birds is flying in formation does not mean that it is on course, and just because a lone bird flies out of formation does not mean that it is off course (this from R.D.Laing). Laing also stated that being well-adjusted to an insane system is itself insanity (echoes the Rousseau quote).
The issue of mental health can, IMO, also be seen as an attempt to break out, or to break free from this state of trying to adjust one's being to a crazy system. It is perhaps the peripheral area - from which one either 'returns' (to the true insanity of being well-adjusted to the Matrix); or one remains in limbo (just functioning/surviving); or one breaks through to the other side, where there is the possibility of whatever it is that freedom and sanity and natural living involve :D
We have to be willing to be crazy enough to not be insane to see the system for what it is.
Absolutely, to go out of our mind is also to be able to look down from above and gain new perspectives!