#i'm not affiliated with an institution i'm doing this for funsies

[hellbrainspeaks]

Hey fam! I'm doing some preliminary research for a collection of essays on mental health depictions in film & tv with a focus on personality, identity, dissociative, psychotic, and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

I know pickings are slim in this regard, especially with good or positive representation, so I'd like to hear from the community all of your personal headcanons for characters who could be affected by any of these disorders Because You Said So.

All genres, ratings, regions, and languages welcome! As long as I can find it somewhere with English subtitles I'm open to anything from anywhere. As an example, here's a few of the characters I've selected to get me started:

Catra - Netflix's She-Ra

Jinx - Arcane: League of Legends

Amanda Young - Saw franchise

Thomas Shelby - Peaky Blinders

Jennifer Check - Jennifer's Body

If you have your own headcanons for these characters or other characters in their stories feel free to drop them too. And if you have any suggestions for characters that are canonically diagnosed with any of the above, I'm also very interested in checking those out whether it's good or bad rep.

Reblogs are appreciated to help this reach as many people as possible!