mental illness theme

A character exhibits general mental illness.

39 total · 1 choice · 26 major · 12 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
novel: The Driver's Seat (1970) choice Lise is clearly mad
ahh2x01 major The viewer is shown a menagerie of lunatics in Dr. Norton's sanatorium.
ahh2x21 major Before the revelation that Helen is the crazy one, the viewer is led to believe that Dorothy was an unstable character who had more than a few bees in her bonnet. In addition to stalking Helen because of some childhood slight, she broke into a photography studio and made a mess because they wouldn't take her picture.
ahp1x17 major Nell asked if there was a history of insanity in the family. In the end, we saw that Emma was more than a little bit neurotic.
ahp2x08 major It was certainly suggested many times that Cissie was crazy and could be committed.
ahp2x39 major The story culminates with a mentally deranged man barging into a train station waiting room whereupon he quickly made his mental health issues on display to its two terrified occupants.
ahp4x19 major In the end, it turned out that Philip was insane and was all along behaving as if his long dead mother was alive and well.
ahp5x17 major The story was driven by the idea that Marie had some unspecified illness of the mind (maybe fever induced) that made her try to kill her husband.
ahp5x27 major Madeleine spoke about mental illness with some assumed authority. We then saw a supposedly insane man.
ahp6x05 major Miss Dent had been hospitalized for eight months before getting her job, and once she lost it she became incapacitated for two weeks. She was clearly unstable, perhaps neurotic.