List of films featuring mental disorders

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.

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Amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

A person with anterograde amnesia is unable to form new memories.

Retrograde amnesia

A much-used plot device, retrograde amnesia occurs when a person forgets part or all of his or her past.

Psychogenic amnesia

Psychogenic amnesia, also known as dissociative amnesia, is memory loss caused by psychological stress.

Lacunar amnesia

Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event.

Anxiety disorders

Agoraphobia

Obsessive–compulsive disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Social anxiety disorder

Autism spectrum disorders

Bipolar disorder

Clinical depression

Dysthymia

Conduct disorder

Delusional disorder and other psychotic disorders not otherwise specified

Erotomania

Dementia

Alzheimer's disease

Dissociative disorders

See also psychogenic amnesia (dissociative amnesia)

Eating disorders

Hypersexuality

Learning disabilities

Pedophilia

Personality disorders

Antisocial personality disorder

Avoidant personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Schizoid personality disorder

Paranoid personality disorder

Schizoaffective disorder

Schizophrenia

Substance use disorder

Drugs listed from most addictive, harmful or destructive to least (from most to least dangerous, based on a 2007 scientific research study[11]):

Miscellaneous and unspecified

See also

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