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.
18 total · 1 choice · 11 major · 6 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. |
| 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. |
| movie: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) | major | In Franzis' delusion, the lunatic asylum director went dangerously insane and had to be forcibly restrained. In reality, Franzis was himself a patient in the asylum. He suffered from the delusion that the director was an insane murderer. |
| rbt1985e6x15 | major | Mr. Whetmore carved a tombstone and accidentally misspelled the name as Whyte as White. Concerned more than anything with not being wasteful, Mr. Whetmore killed a random stranger with the name of Mr. White, and sold the tombstone to his widow. Mr. Whetmore's killing a man ostensibly to avoid letting a good tombstone go to waste is makes for an odd state of mind to say the least. |