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Movies about mental health disorders?

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  1. rudysteiner

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    Hey everyone,

    Does anyone know any good movies (preferably under two hours long) that are about mental health disorders?

    I've recently watched 'Call Me Crazy: A Five Film', documenting schizophrenia, PTSD, severe depression and bipolar disorder, and I watched 'A Beautiful Mind' today too, starring Russell Crowe. It's about a mathematical genius with schizophrenia.

    Can anyone recommend any more?

    It might seem weird that this is what I'm asking, but mental health disorders have started to fascinate me since I started studying psych, even though we haven't touched on them yet.
     
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    Girl, Interrupted
    Prozac Nation
    I Am Sam
     
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    I Am Sam was such a great movie.:icon_bigg
     
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    Girl, Interrupted is an amazing movie. It's one of my favourites and I'm surprised I didn't mention it. Never heard of the other two though, I'll put them on my list.
     
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    It's Kind Of A Funny story takes a sort of comedic approach to the topic, it's a pretty good film tbh.
     
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    Prozac Nation is about depression. Like GI, it's based on an autobiographical novel. I Am Sam is about Autism. Sean Penn won an Oscar for it, I think.
     
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    I think I Am Sam will be the first out of the two I'll be watching. My brother's autistic so it'll be fun to see how it's presented in this particular movie.
     
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    A word of warning: I Am Sam is not a "fun" movie but it is very well done. If you do want a more light-hearted movie about autism then I'd suggest Rain Man.
     
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    Does Uninvited counts?
     
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    Inside Out, for depression. (The animated one. It's surprisingly accurate in its portrayal and analogies)
     
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    What's Eating Gilbert Grape
     
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    Manic. It's about teens in a psych ward. I love that movie.
     
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    Autism is on a different spectrum than mental illnesses.
     
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    This was addressed before the site crashed and we lost the posts for it, but I'm grateful for the autism movie suggestions nevertheless.
     
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    I don't know any good movies but I have several conditions and if you want to learn more about a mental illness, feel free to ask me questions.
     
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    Check out Short Term 12 on Netflix.
     
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? That's all I can think of that hasn't been mentioned...
     
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    The Road Within
     
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    If you're interested in MPD, Sybil is a great one.