Like many human conditions, medical, psychological, or otherwise, bipolar disorder was at first little-known (then called manic-depression), then described poorly in pop culture, then evolved in the collective mind to me...

Comic book heroes can be great fun, but when they...  ...ew times that Batman himself was shown to be more mentally

Do you struggle with a mental illness ? People will tell you to suck it up and keep goin...

DeviantART member DestinyBlue illustrates her expe...  ...ember DestinyBlue illustrates her experience with mental illness in this piece titled Depression. She explains tha...  ...ession. She explains that unlike physical wounds, mental injuries hide from view. People with them may put...

[https://youtu.be/DhlRgwdDc-E] (YouTube link)People and pop culture latch onto psychological terms and extrapolate them to people they know. Even themselves! Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is one of the more recent psycho...

Poor, poor Eeyore. Fans may write off his sadness...  ...l cartoon characters. Many speak of the stigma of mental illness ; it may be that the popularity of these long suff...

[http://youtu.be/wRBZ0Kjisl4] (YouTube link)If you...  ...son, who became known to the world as Sybil. -via mental_floss

Neuroscientist Dean Burnett once auditioned for a...  ...hts how easy it is to convince people they have a mental disorder, once it has a name. Have you ever exper...

If you’ve followed Neatorama for a while, yo...  ...iliar with the Truman Show Delusion. It’s a mental illness in which a person believes that his whole life is...  ...s delusion to be included in a Cracked list about mental illnesses that turn your life into a TV show, but no. These...

Through most of human history, the mentally ill spoke of seeing demons, spirits, and ghosts....  ...and is being monitored by the CIA. ‘For an illness that is often characterised as a break with reali...  ...that reality TV is either a cause or a symptom of mental illness...