List of films featuring mental illness. Many films have portrayed mental disorders or used it as a backdrop for other themes.
Here is a list of some of these films, sorted by disorder, regardless of whether the disorder is portrayed accurately or not. For example, although 50 First Dates presents a case of anterograde amnesia, the type depicted does not really exist. In particular, owing to the nature of drama, extreme and florid manifestations of any given disorder tend to prevail over the more subtle ones typical of the average person with that disorder.
For example, people with agoraphobia are typically portrayed in drama as recluses who never or almost never leave their homes; in reality, this is rare and extreme, not typical, among the agoraphobic population. Amnesia[edit] Anterograde amnesia[edit] A person with anterograde amnesia is unable to form new memories. Retrograde amnesia[edit] A much-used plot device, retrograde amnesia occurs when a person forgets part or all of his or her past. Psychogenic amnesia[edit] Upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Cloth_embroidered_by_a_schizophrenia_sufferer.jpg. Mental illness in fiction. Life After Brain Injuries: Are We Still the Same People? Biology 2022002 Second Paper On Serendip Alyson Dymkowski During the summer of my junior year, a friend of mine, we will call her "Jen", got into a horrible car accident.
Apparently sitting in the middle of the backseat, only strapped in with a lap belt, my friend hit her head on the side window, smashing the window upon impact. After 3 weeks of being in a coma, my friend eventually recovered. Even though she was deemed "physically" healed, my friend was truly never the same. Descartes, a famous philosopher, once made the statement, "Cogito ergo sum" (6). Brain injury is any injury that results in damage to the brain. In the summer of 1848, a man named Phineas Gage incurred a traumatic injury to the frontal lobe region of his brain after a sudden explosion sent a rod straight through his head.
The likely reality is that when someone's brain is injured, the function is forever injured as well. References 3)Cyber Museum of Neurosugery, a good site about Phineas Gage 5) Antonio R. Coma boy awakes a changed person on 'General Hospital' Michael wakes from his coma next week on "General Hospital.
" My, how he's grown. "He's 17 now," says Laura Wright, who plays Michael's mom, Carly. 'The actor playing him [Drew Garrett] is 20. I guess I had him at 16. " "GH" is aging Michael so he can mix in with the "teen" set. "The levels in his brain are dropping," says Wright. Wanting answers. "Carly says, 'Let me talk to Patrick.' Michael makes it through, "but then they are all at his bedside, and Patrick comes in. Jax forces Carly to go rest while they wait, since she is pregnant. "He says, 'You have to accept it, Carly.' Carly races back to the hospital and finds Lulu there. "It's like a scary movie," says Wright. Carly is in for as rude an awakening as her son. "Michael is furious with Carly because she wasn't there when he woke up. They can't tell him until they get the all-clear from Michael's doctor.
"In true soap opera fashion, Patrick comes in: 'The tests all came back positive! '" "It's hysterical," says Wright. SODopinion@aol.com. 10 Unbelievable Coma Stories - Oddee.com (coma story) The little girl in coma who woke up singing Mamma Mia!
When young Layla Towsey fell into a coma after contracting meningitis, her family was told to give her a kiss goodbye. But it was far from the final curtain for the three-year-old, who awoke and began singing Abba's pop hit Mamma Mia!. The musical recovery came after she spent five days in coma, with mother Katy waiting only to see how disabled her daughter would be. Layla was diagnosed with meningitis B and meningococcal septicaemia and spent the next five days unconscious in intensive care. But then Layla began singing the words to Mamma Mia! The 3-year-old girl who started smoking and drinking after waking up from a coma. A three-year-old has mysteriously picked up an addiction to smoking cigarettes and downing beers after surviving a road crash. The Coma boy who told his mum to f*** off A mother waited 41 days for her injured son to come out of a coma - only for him to tell her to 'f*** off'.
The man who chose to be in coma.