Throughout the years, many films and TV shows have tackled these delicate themes with care, handling mental health with precision and refusing to stigmatize these sensitive issues. As our society ...

What does a real psychologist think of how mental illness is portrayed in movies? Dr. Ali Mattu, clinical psychologist at the Columbia University Medical Center, takes a look at how mental illness is ...

These films explore trauma, grief, addiction, and depression through Black-led stories across different genres and time periods. Several entries examine how abuse, rejection, and loss shape characters ...

The following article contains discussions of mental health conditions, violence, and suicide. While the entertainment industry is notorious for misrepresenting many illnesses, co ...

World Mental Health Day 2025 is being observed around the world on Friday, October 10. It was first organized in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health and has since been observed every year ...

The unreliable narrator is a powerful tool in the hands of the right author, and when it comes to movies, nothing is more unreliable than a character with a mental illness. Kelly breaks the sanity ...

As the holiday season unfolds, many Americans are turning to feel-good Christmas movies for comfort—and mental health experts say there's science behind why these films make viewers feel better. The ...

Most movies treat mental health like a plot twist—something dramatic, visible, and easily explained. But real depression and anxiety don’t work that way, and filmmaker Olivia Nash is determined to ...

So my buddy Martin and I drove up to Norfolk, Virginia, a couple weeks ago to see the premiere of Andy Irons: Kissed by God. Downtown Norfolk’s pretty far from the ocean, but not nearly as removed as ...