In his director's commentary for Groundhog Day Harold Ramis refers to what he calls the "Superman problem," e.g. the notion that Supes can and should be busy 24/7 doing heroic stuff, so why is he wasting time with Lois, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen? This was evident in the Silver Age, when being Clark Kent was entirely a hobby. More recent stories seem to (attempt to) suggest that he'd go nuts having to be Superman every single moment. Superman said this outright in an episode of Superman the Animated Series titled "The Late Mr. Kent" where Clark Kent is "murdered" by a car bomb.
"I am Clark. I need to be Clark! I'd go crazy if I had to be Superman all the time!"
Then there was the classic Bronze Age story "Who Took The Super Out Of Superman?"
It involves him being forced to choose only one of his identities to maintain. He soon realizes that both are equally important to him, because he can't stand the guilt of ignoring his calling if he stays as Clark for too long, but even Superman can't stand being Superman 24 hours a day. This theme crops up repeatedly in Bronze Age Superman stories (and even a Supergirl story), but "Who Took..." is the most well-known example.
Surprisingly, the Big Blue offered one of the better deconstructions of the "Good Samaritan" trope. An elderly woman living in Suicide Slums(Metropolis' ghettos) gets the idea that she is able to call down Superman on bad guys after praying twice for divine intervention(Only once was it for personal reasons, and that was for her own life to be saved). She eventually goes looking for trouble so that Superman will come in and stop it. Then she tries it when, unknown to her, Superman was away preventing a giant space monster from devouring Earth, and goes into a gang's hang out hoping that they will be broken up. She is shot, thankfully non-fatally, and the people of Metropolis realize that they can solve their problems without Superman. The woman bears no ill will towards him, nor do the people of Metropolis, and the story concludes that Superman is a nice thing to have around, but doesn't need to be there all the time... Well, except when there's a hostile space monster or its equivalent in the vicinity, but for human-scale problems, he can take a break.
One storyline had Superman early in his Post-Crisis career realizing that even with all his speed he can't be everywhere and save everyone even in one city, really only The Flash is the one most capable of that only he doesn't have super hearing, and having to learn to tune out 99% of the cries for help his super-hearing picks up every minute of every day.
Despite all this, Superman was hit with this twice in the mid to late 90s. First was when he was resurrected: he and Lois go to Europe for a nice dinner out. While he was gone, the Toyman kidnaps a bunch of children, including the son of a former co-worker of theirs, and kills them. He's so guilt-ridden by this, he vows never to take another vacation.
The second time had Superman mind-controlled by a super villain in a bid to wear him down by making him Superman all the time. This of course involved ditching his Clark Kent identity to be Superman 24/7 and watch over the entire world. How bad did it get? He shows up in nearly every DC Comic during one particular month, being tossed out of No Man's Land-ravaged Gotham by Batman TWICE, creating an entire army of Superman Robots and finally having the JLA on his ass!
So we can safely say that Superman - Clark Kent = Crazy Superman.
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