mentally ill

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mentally ill

Rabble Starkey

1988
Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend, Veronica Bigelow when Veronica's mother becomes mentally incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows.

Tick tock

2011
Detective Michael Bennett joins forces with FBI Agent Emily Parker to root out a terrorist who is threatening New York City with a devastation of the greatest magnitude, and must simultaneously sort out his feelings for Emily and protect his ten adopted children.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

1992
Hate, violence, and death climax the struggle for power between a patient in a mental institution and the head nurse.

Shutter Island

2010
Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

The visibles

a novel
2009
Summer Davis, having gained an interest in genetics when she was fifteen-years-old, passes up a fellowship at a prominent institution to take care of her father, whose mental health began to deteriorate after her mother abandoned them, and worries that she is destined to live out her family's legacy.

Manic

a memoir
2008
Teri Cheney, a former entertainment lawyer in Beverly Hills, shares the story of her struggles with bipolar disorder, describing what she endured with mood swings, medications, and even shock treatments, before finally gaining control of her illness.

The drowning tree

2005
Juno McKay retraces the path of a best friend's research on a stain-glassed window at an upstate New York college, uncovering tangled connections among the prestigious college and her own family history.

Unless

2003
Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.

The good patient

a novel
2003
Darien Gilbertson appears to have it all, but she is hiding a disturbing secret that threatens every aspect of her life.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

2007
The story of inmates fighting back against authority in a mental asylum ward run by a cruel nurse.

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