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Forums / Staying well / Movies and literature on mental illness that resonated with you

Topic: Movies and literature on mental illness that resonated with you

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  1. Guest_1643
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    16 November 2020 in reply to uncut_gems
    melancholia is a very true description of depression = painfully so. It is also a wonderfully weird movie.
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    17 November 2020 in reply to Guest_1643

    So true Sleepy.

    Oh for non-fiction I would also recommend:

    Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon. A wonderful and moving exploration of depression that's part memoir and part pop-science.

    And also the documentary Titicut Follies. Quite disturbing but a remarkable film about how mentally ill people were treated (at least in America) until very recently)

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