mental illness theme
A character exhibits general mental illness.
39 total · 1 choice · 26 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |