descent into madness theme
The transition of a healthy mind into unhealthy mental disorder is featured.
Examples
Riker thought he was losing his mind in an alien insane asylum in tng6x21 "Frame of Mind".
85 total · 10 choice · 53 major · 20 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x15 | choice | The stress from being hounded as a suspect for his wife's tragic accident caused Andrew to become gradually more erratic, make mistakes at work, and ultimately go completely off the rails. |
| bbf2x16 | choice | Sheridan contemplated the possibility that he was going insane |
| ds96x11 | choice | Dukat was driven mad over guilt for the atrocities he oversaw during Bajor occupation |
| ent1x04 | choice | Tucker went delusional inside cave and became convinced that T'Pol was plotting with rock monsters against him. |
| ic1976e08 | choice | The story turns on Caligula increasingly losing his mind to the point where he became convinced that he was a god. |
| movie: Hamlet (1948) | choice | His father's death and the subsequent revelation that it was murder, seemed to drive Hamlet into something that people around him thought was madness. |
| movie: Hour of the Wolf (1968) | choice | the story showed how a tormented artist, Johan, gradually succumbed to his demons |
| tftc1989e4x03 | choice | Danny became evermore unhinged as the story progressed. At first he was perturbed by best friend's bothersome new wife and the prospect of the band breaking up. Later he was driven insane by a mysterious and neigh unremovable tattoo of the woman in question. The tattoo drove him so mad (one may speculate that it contained hallucinogenic Voodoo toxins for example) that he used a piece of broken mirror to slash the skin off his entire upper torso and rid himself of it when he thought it had taken the form of a dragon-like creature and burst out from inside his chest. |
| tftc1989e4x10 | choice | Fear of the notorious serial killer, and being frequently disheveled by unsympathetic oddballs at the library where she worked, caused Margaret to become evermore unstable until she finally flipped out and stabbed her boss, Mrs. Pritchard, to death in a paranoid delusion. |
| tng6x21 | choice | Riker :: Riker in insane asylum |