human mental condition theme

There is a character whose mental well-being is featured because they suffer from some condition or another that is considered to be pathological. Such a condition is usually detrimental to the individual's well-being.

Examples

"depression", "despair", "persecution complex", "schizophrenia", and "suppressed emotion" are all "human mental condition" themes that are featured in stories from time to time.

Ancestors

human health condition › human challenge in life › individual humans › personal human experience › the human world

Child themes (46)

Oedipus complex, Stockholm syndrome, acute anxiety, amnesia, anger management issues, catharsis, child unhealthily attached to a parent, coping with a crisis of faith, coping with an existential crisis, coping with having been raped, coping with losing a special ability, delusion of being someone one is not, delusion of grandeur, delusional point of view, denial, depression, descent into madness, despair, desperation, hallucination of a non-existing person, hearing voices, human phobia, hypochondria, kleptomania, loss of emotional equilibrium, lucid dreaming, mental illness, mental retardation, multiple personality disorder, narcissism, necrophilia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, overactive imagination, pathological lying, persecution complex, psychological stress, psychopathy, religious fervor, repressed memories, schizophrenia, self-injurious behavior, sleep deprivation, solipsism syndrome, suppressed emotion, survivor guilt, withdrawal from society

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder

21 total · 1 choice · 13 major · 7 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
voy3x02	choice	Tuvok suffered a brain memory virus induced complete mental breakdown.
ahh1x02	major	Both Harold and Edwin appeared to be deranged killers.
ahh1x05	major	Warren's erratic behavior, which culminated with murdering his love interest, was explained as a result of him being left "mentally unbalanced" from the car accident. In the end, Warren was unable to distinguish between reality and his new novel.
ahh3x16	major	The true baby killer Christine was deeply deranged. Joyce mentioned to Christine that the infanticidal nanny was insane, but Christine demurred. In his closing remarks, Alfred Hitchcock conveyed to the viewer that Christine was placed in a sanitarium. The idea was floated that one would have to be deeply mentally ill to kill a baby.
ahp2x06	major	Edwina had escaped from a mental institution and was taking care of a cat as if it were her baby boy.
blackmirror7x04	major	Cameron's interrogators wrote him off as a rambling, delusional fool.
devs2020e1x03	major	Lily feigned a schizophrenic breakdown as part of an elaborate plot to pilfer security footage from the night Sergei died.
devs2020e1x04	major	After playing schizophrenic and suicidal at the Amaya HQ, Lily went to the police with her evidence only to be arrested and sectioned.
movie: Koi Mil Gaya (2003)	major	The hero of the story, Rohit, was saddled with a developmental disability that effectively made him a boy in the body of a grown man.
movie: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)	major	A man had an extreme metal fetish.