Movies: Mental disorders

A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities....

Young people with family problems find themselves involved in manipulation through a social network, where life itself is at stake....

A short film shot with a £0 budget based on the pre-title sequence format. A protagonist who suffers from an undiagnosed dissociative identity disorder (DID) is caught breaking into an old building, but what did she want? What was she doing there? W...

Director Mathieu Arsenault and two other sufferers of bipolar disorder tell the story of their journey into mental illness and back, while the partners and family members who helped them through it tell the story as they experienced it....

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In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and p...

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A young woman is struggling with her mental health, as it begins to slowly push her over the edge....

In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life. Almost one man in ten in his late teens and early twenties is refusing to leave his home – many do not leave their bedrooms for years on end....

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?...

When Julián's ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is discovered by his mother, she must decide on the right treatment for him, what she does not know is that her actions would unleash chaos in her son's mind....