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Timeline of
Mentally Ill Characters

Key:
    Book 📕
    Play 🎭
    Movie 🎥
    TV Show 📺 


📕 1605
The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
delusional disorder

🎭 1606
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
unspecified psychotic disorder

🎭 1606
King Lear by William Shakespeare
unspecified psychotic disorder

🎭 1609
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
unspecified depressive disorder

📕 1843
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
guilt induced schizophrenia

📕 1847
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
unspecified psychotic disorder

📕 1866
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
unspecified depressive disorder

📕 1869
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
unspecified depressive disorder

📕 1877
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
unspecified depressive disorder

📕 1880
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
unspecified depressive disorder

📕 1892
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
temporary nervous depression/slight hysterical tendency

📕 1899
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
unspecified depressive disorder

📕 1912
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
unspecified psychotic disorder

1925
New York University formed the first program designed to train people in school psychology. 

📕 1925
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
post traumatic stress disorder

📕 1925
The Trial by Franz Kafka
unspecified depressive disorder

📕 1934
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
schizophrenia

📕 1942
The Stranger by Albert Camus
unspecified depressive disorder

🎥 1945
Spellbound
amnesia

🎭 1945
The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
eccentricities

🎭 1947
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
post traumatic stress disorder/histrionic personality disorder

📕 1948
Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger
post traumatic stress disorder

🎭 1949
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
depression

🎥 1950
Sunset Boulevard
histrionic personality disorder/delusional disorder

📕 1951
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
borderline personality disorder

🎥 1951
A Streetcar Named Desire
post traumatic stress disorder/histrionic personality disorder

📕 1956
The Fall by Albert Camus
unspecified depressive disorder

🎥 1957
The Three Faces of Eve
dissociative identity disorder

1960s
The US government began to enact a policy of deinstitutionalization, which moved mental health patients out of state-run "insane asylums" and into federally funded community mental health centers.

🎥 1960
Psycho
dissociative identity disorder

📕 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
histrionic personality disorder

📕 1963
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
depression

📕 1964
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
paranoid schizophrenia

🎭 1965
Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh
delusional disorder

🎭 1965
Anyone Can Whistle by Arthur Laurents & Stephen Sondheim
histrionic personality disorder

🎥 1969
The Madwoman of Chaillot
eccentricities

📕 1970
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
dysmorphoric disorder

🎥 1971
A Clockwork Orange
antisocial personality disorder

1972
Thomas Eagleton, who was originally tapped to be George McGovern’s running mate, was forced to resign from the ticket when his struggle with depression was made public.

📕 1973
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
dissociative identity disorder

📕 1975
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
alcohol induced delusional disorder

🎥 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
histrionic personality disorder

📕 1976
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
bereavement/suicidal ideation

🎥 1976
Taxi Driver
post traumatic stress disorder/schizotypal personality disorder

📕 1977
Rage by Stephen King
antisocial personality disorder

🎥 1980
Ordinary People
bereavement/suicidal ideation

🎥 1980
The Shining
schizophrenia

🎥 1984
Paris, Texas
postpartum depression & amnesia

📕 1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison
post traumatic stress disorder/delusional disorder

🎥 1988
Rain Man
savant autism

🎥 1989
Born on the Fourth of July
post traumatic stress disorder

🎥 1990
Jacob’s Ladder
post traumatic stress disorder

🎥 1991
Regarding Henry
amnesia

🎥 1991
Silence of the Lambs
antisocial personality disorder

🎥 1991
Cape Fear
antisocial personality disorder

🎥 1991
The Fisher King
post traumatic stress disorder/schizophrenia

📕 1992
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
post traumatic stress disorder/binge eating disorder/depression

📕 1993
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
antisocial personality disorder

🎥 1993
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
binge eating disorder/depression

🎥 1993
Benny and Joon
schizophrenia

🎥 1993
Clean, Shaven
schizophrenia

📕 1994
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
depression

🎥 1994
Ed Wood
gender dysphoria

🎥 1996
Shine
schizoaffective disorder

🎥 1997
As Good as It Gets
obsessive compulsive disorder

🎥 1997
Good Will Hunting
post traumatic stress disorder

📕 1998
The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant
anorexia

📕 1998
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
bipolar disorder & depression

📕 1998
Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser
obsessive compulsive disorder

🎥 1999
American Beauty
agoraphobia & antisocial personality disorder & depression

🎥 1999
Girl, Interrupted
antisocial personality disorder

🎥 1999
Analyze This
anxiety disorder

🎥 1999
Fight Club
dissociative identity disorder

📕 1999
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
post traumatic stress disorder/suicidal ideation

🎥 2000
Memento
anterograde amnesia

🎥 2000
Proof
delusional disorder

🎥 2000
Me, Myself & Irene
dissociative identity disorder

🎥 2000
American Psycho
narcissistic personality disorder

🎥 2001
Prozac Nation
depression

🎥 2001
I Am Sam
intellectual disability/autism

🎥 2001
A Beautiful Mind
schizophrenia

🎥 2001
Donnie Darko
schizophrenia

🎥 2002
The Hours
bipolar disorder & depression

🎥 2002
Insomnia
insomnia

🎥 2002
White Oleander
narcissistic personality disorder & histrionic personality disorder & depression

📕 2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Asperger’s syndrome

🎥 2003
Matchstick Men
obsessive compulsive disorder

🎥 2003
Mystic River
post traumatic stress disorder

🎥 2003
Spider
schizophrenia

🎥 2004
The Notebook
Alzheimer's disease

🎥 2004
50 First Dates
anterograde amnesia

📺 2004
House
depression

🎥 2004
The Machinist
insomnia/guilt induced schizophrenia

🎥 2004
The Aviator
obsessive compulsive disorder

🎭 2005
Proof by David Auburn
delusional disorder

📺 2006
Psych
attention deficit disorder

🎥 2006
Snow Cake
autism

🎥 2006
Little Miss Sunshine
depression

📕 2006
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
depression/suicidal ideation

🎥 2006
I'm a Cyborg, but That's Ok
schizophrenia

🎥 2007
Lars and the Real Girl
schizotypal personality disorder

🎥 2007
Away from Her
Alzheimer's disease

📺 2007
The Big Bang Theory
Asperger's syndrome

🎥 2007
The Savages
dementia

📕 2007
13 Reasons Why
post traumatic stress disorder

2008
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which prevents health insurance providers from imposing more limitations on those benefits than on medical/surgical benefits, was passed by Congress.

📕 2008
Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
bipolar disorder

🎭 2008
Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt
bipolar disorder

🎥 2008
Synecdoche, New York
borderline personality disorder

🎥 2009
Shrink
bereavement/depression & anxiety disorder

📕 2009
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
anorexia/self injury disorder

📺 2009
Community
Asperger's syndrome

📺 2009
The United States of Tara
dissociative identity disorder

🎥 2009
Precious
post traumatic stress disorder/bulimia/social anxiety disorder

🎥 2009
The Soloist
schizophrenia

📺 2010
Sherlock
antisocial personality disorder

🎥 2010
Temple Grandin
autism

📕 2010
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
depression

🎥 2010
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
depression/suicidal ideation

🎥 2010
Shutter Island
post traumatic stress disorder/delusional disorder & bipolar disorder

🎥 2010
Black Swan
schizophrenia

📕 2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
bipolar disorder

📺 2011
Homeland
bipolar disorder

📺 2011
Shameless
bipolar disorder & bipolar disorder

🎥 2011
Melancholia
depression

🎭 2012
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Simon Stephens
Asperger’s syndrome

🎥 2012
Silver Linings Playbook
bipolar disorder

🎥 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
post traumatic stress disorder/suicidal ideation

📺 2013
Please Like Me
bipolar disorder & depression & anxiety disorder

🎥 2013
Short Term 12
depression/self injury disorder

🎥 2014
Before I Go to Sleep
anterograde amnesia

🎥 2014
Birdman
bipolar disorder/schizophrenia

🎥 2014
The Skeleton Twins
depression

📺 2014
BoJack Horseman
depression

📺 2014
Transparent
depression

🎥 2014
Still Alice
early-onset Alzheimer's disease

🎥 2014
The Voices
schizophrenia

🎥 2014
The Road Within
Tourette's syndrome & obsessive compulsive disorder & anorexia

🎥 2014
The Babadook
postpartum depression/post traumatic stress disorder

🎭 2015
Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
anxiety disorder

📕 2015
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
bipolar disorder

🎥 2015
Infinitely Polar Bear
bipolar disorder

🎥 2015
Welcome To Me
borderline personality disorder

📺 2015
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
borderline personality disorder

🎥 2015
Inside Out
childhood dysthymia

📕 2015
Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa
depression

📺 2015
Difficult People
depression

📕 2015
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
depression/suicidal ideation

📺 2015
Mr. Robot
dissociative identity disorder

📺 2015
Jessica Jones
post traumatic stress disorder

📺 2015
Catastrophe
postpartum depression

🎥 2015
They Look Like People
schizophrenia

📺 2016
Lady Dynamite
bipolar disorder

🎥 2016
Split
dissociative identity disorder

📺 2016
This Is Us
panic disorder

2017
The Mental Health in Schools Act, which provides federal funding to train school staff on mental health related issues, establish comprehensive school-based mental health services, and create links between schools and the community mental health system, was introduced in the House of Representatives.

🎥 2017
13 Reasons Why
post traumatic stress disorder

🎥 2018
Tully
postpartum psychosis

This is a list of about 150 books, movies, plays, and TV shows dealing with mental illness, and diagnoses for the characters with mental illnesses placed in the order they were produced. Pop culture portrayal of mental illness has strong effects on and is strongly affected by how society views mental health at the time, so to show that connection, real-life policies and political events that changed how mental illness is handled are placed along the timeline as well. Connections between the books, movies, plays, and TV and the real events can be viewed differently based on the situation.

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