MOVIES/TV SHOWS

Below you will find movies and TV shows that discuss mental health conditions
or portray characters with mental health issues and their experiences in coping and recovering.

There are many more out there, these are just a few that we have noted. Feel free to suggest any that aren't here on our Connect With Us page. Also, remember that everyone has different tastes! You may enjoy some of these 
tv shows/movies while others may not suit you!

TV SHOWS

MONK

Former police detective Adrian Monk has suffered from intensified obsessive- compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. Aided by his friend and practical nurse, Sharona Fleming , Monk works as a freelance detective/consultant, hoping to convince his former boss, Captain Stottlemeyer, to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer wavers between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities. Moreover, he harbors serious doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Disher , also has his doubts about Monk but seems to be developing a reluctant admiration for the "defective detective."

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312172/

UNITED STATES OF TARA

A woman struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1001482/

HEALTHY MINDS

Healthy Minds aims to remove the stigma that can prevent patients and their families from seeking help. Each half-hour in this 16-episode series humanizes a specific mental health condition through inspiring personal stories and interviews with leading researchers and experts, who provide the latest information about diagnosis and treatment. You can watch all the episodes right on your computer, and learn about many different mental health conditions and treatments, etc;

Healthy Minds Episodes

MORE

Mental Health Matters

Social phobia and other problems (1 of 2)

Social phobia and other problems (2 of 2)

Stuck in a Doorway: An OCD Story

Mental Health and Medication

Resilience Part 1 - Resilient Attitude

Mental Health & Therapy : How Do Coping Skills Help With Everyday Life?

ZebraHEad Mental Health Music Video

MOVIES

A BEAUTIFUL MIND

The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and makes a remarkable advancement in the foundations of "game theory," which carries him to the brink of international acclaim. Soon after, John is visited by Agent William Parcher (Ed Harris), from the CIA, who wants to recruit him for code-breaking activities.

http://movies.amctv.com/movie/256005/Beautiful-Mind/overview

GIRL, INTERRUPTED

In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and the bizarre world of the institution. Susanna bonds with several other patients, including Lisa, Polly, and Georgina. As she realizes that Lisa is potentially dangerous and truly needs help, Susanna begins to work harder with her psychiatrist and the nurse on the ward But Susanna soon learns that getting out of the hospital is not as easy as getting in. Girl, Interrupted was based on the autobiography of Susanna Kaysen, who really did spend a year-and-a-half in the McLean Psychiatric Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts

http://www.fandango.com/girl,interrupted_v181272/plotsummary

RAIN MAN

Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's 3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering that the 3 million is being held in trust for an unidentified party, Charlie heads to his home town of Cincinnati to ascertain who that party is. It turns out that the beneficiary is Raymond Babbitt, the autistic-savant older brother that Charlie never knew he had. Able to memorize reams of trivia and add, subtract, multiply, and divide without a second's hesitation, Raymond is otherwise incapable of functioning as a normal human being. Aghast that Raymond is to receive his father's entire legacy, Charlie tries to cut a deal with Raymond's guardian. When this fails, Charlie "borrows" Raymond from the institution where he lives, hoping to use his brother as leverage to claim half the fortune. During their subsequent cross-country odyssey, Charlie is forced to accommodate Raymond's various autistic idiosyncracies, not the least of which is his insistence on adhering to a rigid daily schedule: he must, for example, watch People's Court and Jeopardy every day at the same time, no matter what. On hitting Las Vegas, Charlie hopes to harness Raymond's finely-honed mathematical skills to win big at the gaming tables; but this exploitation of his brother's affliction compels Charlie to reassess his own values, or lack thereof.

http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Rain_Man/Summary/

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper as Pat, a bipolar man from Philadelphia who has spent the last eight months in a mental hospital. He was ordered there after a violent incident involving his wife and another man. Pat moves in with his father (Robert De Niro), a lifelong Eagles fans who has low-level OCD issues. Pat wants to get back together with his wife, even though there is a restraining order keeping him from contacting her. He soon befriends Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a depressed young woman who's mourning the death of her husband by engaging in compulsive sex with almost everyone she meets; she also knows his wife and offers to deliver a letter of his to her if he acts as her partner in a local dance competition. Silver Linings Playbook screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

http://www.fandango.com/silverliningsplaybook_v548463/plotsummary