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Below is a list of the Top Ten Movies about Mental Health on Netflix.

Tarzana Treatment Centers offers valuable support for Mental Health Treatment Professionals, including Psychiatrists, Therapists, and Counselors. The goal is to help you supply quality resources to patients. For example, well-made mental health-oriented movies are available on Netflix. Our carefully vetted top ten list is an ongoing resource.

As an important note, we recommend that you watch these movies before recommending them. Indeed, many of these films portray mental health issues with graphic reality. Thus, they are hard to watch for patients still struggling.

Indeed, a movie that could be illuminating for one patient, helping to reduce stigma, could also prove to be dangerous for another. Thus, as a disclaimer, we ask you to use your own experienced judgment when deciding whether to recommend these films to patients.

Top Ten Movies about Mental Health on Netflix

1) Strange Voices (1987)

The film captures the difficult road of a person with schizophrenia from diagnosis to prognosis. It reveals how much an individual’s willingness to accept treatment affects a painful outcome.

2) Brain on Fire (2017)

A successful young journalist finds her life upended when mental illness takes over her waking thoughts. Struggling to hold on, she manages to fight back and find a path to eventual recovery.

3) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

After the suicide of a close friend, a young man finds himself haunted by past traumas from his childhood that were once repressed. Suffering from flashbacks, he fights to heal and recover.

4) To the Bone (2017)

The painful story of a young woman struggling with anorexia nervosa. Thus, she bounces from one recovery program to another. Indeed, the eating disorder hijacks her entire life.

5) Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

An award-winning film about a man struggling with bipolar disorder, he forms a relationship with a grieving woman. However, she might be suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.

6) I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

A story about unexpected psychosis, the challenge is knowing what is real and what is imagined. With no easy answers provided, identities merge and characters become unreliable.

7) Horse Girl (2020)

Damaged by her mother’s suicide, a young, introverted woman suffers from paranoid delusions. Losing time and sleepwalking, her connection to reality is fractured by past traumas.

8) Mad World (2016)

A stockbroker, who has bipolar disorder, goes off the rails and blames his family. An indictment of social stigma and medical agencies, old baggage gives way to healing.

9) Into the Wild (2007)

The tragic story of Christopher McCandless is about so much more than mental health. However, issues of anger, idealism, and identity, taken to an extreme, ultimately lead to his untimely death.

10) The Disaster Artist (2017)

Caught in a vise of delusion and grandiosity, an enigmatic stranger backs, directs, and stars in what is considered the worst movie ever made.

You can provide certain patients with movies that will open their eyes about how mental health issues are viewed in society. Also, you can learn more about mental health challenges. With either of these two goals, this is a good place to start with easy access.