Movies
This movie was released in 1975 and involved a Korean War veteran and criminal being admitted to a mental institution
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? (antisocial personality disorder, OCD, GAD)
This famous writer Achieved success despite a lifelong battle with mental health issues including alcohol addiction. Hint: A Farewell to Arms.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This show has many main characters that face stress and trauma in their work as surgeons.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
This female singer of a successful duo with her older brother passed away at a young age of heart failure due to complications from anorexia.
Who is Karen Carpenter?
This is the compulsive eating of items that have no nutritional value.
What is Pica?
This movie was released in 1960 and involves a young male who's mother has always controlled him.
What is Psycho? (schizophrenia)
This famous novelist suffered a mental breakdown after the loss of her mother and half sister and suffered from severe depression. This writer took her own life at the age of 59. Hint: The Voyage Out.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
This show follows a dysfunctional family that discusses mental health, addiction, poverty, and family dynamics.
What is Shameless?
This famous American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality suffers from agoraphobia and panic attacks.
Who is Paula Deen?
This is a syndrome that is characterized by excessive hair grown anywhere on the person's body that is long and thick.
What is Hypertrichosis (Werewolf Syndrome)?
This movie was released in 2001 and looks at a trouble teenage who sees visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulated him to commit a series of crimes.
What is Donnie Darko? (Schizophrenia)
This famous short story author and poet struggles with chronic depression, possibly bipolar disorder, alcoholism, and substance abuse. Hint: Joyce has covered this author.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This Netflix show depicts the aftermath of a high school student's suicide.
What is 13 Reasons Why?
This well-known British man was a soldier, and writer who also served a Prime Minister of the UK twice.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This is an illness of someone who has an obsession with drinking one's own blood and the blood of other humans and animals.
What is Renfield's Syndrome?
This movie was released in 2007 and depicts a man obsessed with a novel that he believes has been written about him.
What is The Number 23? (amnesia)
This great American female writer who is mostly known for her poetry began suffering from clinical depression at 19, attempted suicide a number of times despite medications and electroshock therapy. Hint: The Colossus.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
This show is a sci-fi anthology series that explores ideas including anxiety, depression, addiction, and effects of social media, virtual reality, and AI.
What is Black Mirror?
This famous actress who started her film career early suffers/suffered from clinical depression, alcoholism, and substance abuse. Hint: E.T.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
This is a neuropsychiatric disorder related to depression that makes the person believe that they are dead or missing their soul, organs, blood, or body parts.
What is Walking Corpse Syndrome
This movie was released in 2005 and tells the story of a widower piecing his lift back together after his wife's suicide and involves a daughter with an imaginary friend.
What is Hide and Seek? (DID)
This author suffered from depression, alcoholism, and substance abuse. He died at the age of 44 from a heart attack. Hint: The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This FBI series involves solving crimes through developing a profile of the suspect based on details of the crimes.
What is Criminal Minds?
This British actress is reported to have suffered from clinical depression and eating disorders. Hint: Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Who is Audrey Hepburn?
This is a disease that can abruptly turn your hair white as a result of stress or bad news.
What is Canities Subtia (Marie Antoinette syndrome)?