Have you been in your wardrobe again? Alan Bleasdale, GBH II: Only Here on a Message, Robert Lindsay & Lindsay Duncan & Michael Palin & Julie Walters & Tom Georgeson & Andrew Schofield & Jane Danson & David Ross et al, director Robert Young, Laura to Jim, Channel 4 1991
I think I’m going mad, Martin. Alan Bleasdale, GBH III: Send a Message to Michael starring Alan Bleasdale, GBH II: Only Here on a Message, Robert Lindsay & Lindsay Duncan & Michael Palin & Julie Walters & Tom Georgeson & Andrew Schofield & Jane Danson & David Ross et al, director Robert Young, Jim
Wife: Don’t you think it would be a good idea to see a doctor, love? I mean you’ve been sort of .... Tommy, where are you going?
Dixie: Out of my mind. Boys from the Black Stuff: Moonlighter, BBC 1982
Supervisor: Some of these are quite mental.
Derek: Yeah, roast dinner and bingo. Derek – The Special, Channel 4 2014
One in six of us is living with some kind of mental illness. Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day V, BBC 2013
I have my own secret room with a moving wall and mirrors. That’s where I talk to Lee. His is the voice I hear in there. I feel his presence so very close to me. He is like my guardian angel. He’s even given me permission to record his theme song. Michael Jackson
The sex was always great; hell, I was nine years older than him. Blue Jasmin 2013 starrinv Cate Blanchett & Alec Baldwin & Louis C K & Bobby Cannavale & Andrew Dice Clay & Sally Hawkins & Peter Sarsgaard & Michael Stuhlberg, woman to old woman
Can I speak frankly? Yeah. He’s another version of Augie. He’s a loser. ibid.
Who do I have to sleep with round here to get a stony Martini with a twist of lemon? ibid.
Have you ever gotten high on Nitrous Oxide? ibid. dentist to Blanchett
I don’t want to be his only thing. The Soloist 2009 starring Jamie Foxx & Robert Downey junior & Catherine Keener & Tom Hollander & Lisa Gay Hamilton & Nelsan Ellis & Rachael Harris & Stephen Root & Lorraine Toussaint & Justin Martin & Octavia Spencer & Jena Malone & Lemon Anderson et al, director Joe Wright, Steve Lopez to counsellor
I’ve done good by you, haven’t I? ibid. Downey to Foxx
If I ever see you again, I’ll cut you like a fish. ibid. Foxx to Downey
You are of no consequence: Nathaniel Ayers. ibid. commentary
Sometimes friends piss each other off, right. It’s part of the deal. Mr Ayers, I’m honoured to be your friend. ibid. Downey to Foxx
A year ago I met a man who was down on his luck and thought I might be able to help him. I don’t know that I have. Yes, my friend Mr Ayes now sleeps inside. He has a key. He has a bed. But his mental state and his well-being are as precarious now as the day we met. There are people who tell me I’ve helped him. Mental health experts who say that a simple act of being someone’s friend can change his brain chemistry, improve his function in the world. I can’t speak for Mr Ayers in that regard. Maybe our friendship has helped him, maybe not. I can however speak for myself. I can tell you that by witnessing Mr Ayer’s courage, his humility, his faith in the power of his art I have learned the dignity of being loyal to something you believe in. Holding on to him. Above all else believing without question. That it will carry you home. ibid.
Mr Ayers still sleeps inside and is a member of LAMP. He continues to play the cello, as well as the violin, bass, piano, guitar, trumpet, French horn, drums and harmonica. ibid. banner
Mr Lopez continues to write his column for the LA Times. He is learning the guitar. ibid.
There are 90,000 homeless people on the streets of greater Los Angeles. ibid.
All over the United Kingdom parents are being separated from their sick children. More children than ever are being treated for serious mental illness. But cuts to services mean in some places the right treatment is just not available. Kids in Crisis, Channel 4 2015
Three-quarters of all mental illness begins in childhood. ibid.
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Schizoid behaviour is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. Stephen King
You’re dealing with a devious diabolical mind. Basic Instinct 1992 starring Michael Douglas & Sharon Stone & George Dzundza & Jeanne Tripplehorn & Denis Arndt & Leilani Sarelle & Bruce A Young & Chelcie Ross & Dorothy Malone & Wayne Knight & Danielvon Bargen et al, director Paul Verhoeven, psychiatrist
You’re dealing with someone very dangerous and very ill. ibid.
The head of the mental health charity MIND stepped down from the official scrutiny panel calling the system inhumane. Dispatches: Britain on the Sick, Channel 4 2012
We will begin the session now. You will remain aware of everything that goes on. We’re going to find an indecent in your life you have an exact record. Then by sending you through it at the time it happened, we’re going to reduce it. We will reduce the pain. Go to the beginning of that incident. Tell me what’s happening. Scientology: Going Clear: The Prison of Belief ***** opening scene
Hubbard moved in and became Parson’s assistant ... Hubbard ran off with Jack’s girlfriend. ibid.
‘All these things were complete lies ... He told me he was going to commit suicide if I didn't marry him ... And he hit me across the side of the head ... I got up and left the house.’ ibid. Sara
‘That confessional nature makes you feel better.’ ibid.
‘These people were paying $500 a piece in the 1950s for training and Dianetics.’ ibid. testimony of Sarah Northrop
‘He degenerated into a really paranoid terrifying person.’ ibid.
He responded by kidnapping their baby and taking it to Cuba. ibid.
‘He said he cut her into little pieces and dropped them in the river.’ ibid. Sarah
Mr Stringer, would you say I was an unstable woman? Murder, She Said 1961 starring Margaret Rutherford & Arthur Kennedy & Muriel Pavlow & James Robertson Justice & Thorley Walters & Charles Tingwell & Conrad Phillips & Ronald Howard & Joan Hickson et al, director George Pollock
There’s a taboo no-one wants to talk about: mental illness. Football’s Suicide Secret, BBC 2013
The origins of schizophrenia was mysterious. The condition was first described in 1806, but no one is certain whether the illness – or, more likely, group of illnesses – existed long before then but had escaped definition or, on the other hand, appeared as an AIDS-like scourge at the start of the industrial age. Roughly 1 percent of the population of all countries succumbs to it. Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind
Eugen Bleuler, who coined the term schizophrenia in 1908, described a ‘specific type of alteration of thinking, feeling and relation to the external world’. The term refers to a splitting of psychic functions, ‘a peculiar destruction of the inner cohesiveness of the psychic personality’. To the person experiencing early symptoms, there is a dislocation of every faculty, or time, space and body. ibid.
More often than commonly realized, schizophrenia can be an episodic illness, especially in the years following its initial onset. Periods of acute psychosis may be interspersed with periods of relative calm in which symptoms diminish dramatically either as a result of treatment or spontaneously. ibid.
What’s the matter with being a loner and innovative? Isn’t that fine? But the [love genius] has the same wishes as other people. If he were back in high school doing science projects, fine. But if he’s too isolated and he’s disappointed in something big, it’s frightening, and fright can precipitate depression. Paul Howard, McLean Hospital
Rarely seen, little known, the world of forensic psychiatry is a mystery to most of us. Life on the Psych Ward, Channel 4 2016
These patients have committed some very violent crimes. And most are here because they’ve been judged too mentally ill to be in prison. ibid.
Is it possible for some of the most dangerously unwell people in Britain to ever join the outside world? ibid.
A bed here costs four times more than prison. ibid.