Mental Illness

Songs mentioning mental illness. We have all kinds, from depression to OCD to paranoia.

Central theme

• A Self Called Nowhere - Depression and hallucinations
• Absolutely Bill's Mood - Auditory hallucinations: "There's someone always calling my name", "I'm insane"
• Apophenia - Schizophrenia, "That is crazy / You're completely crazy", "Next thing you'll be saying that I've been / Hallucinating you all along"
• Bastard Wants To Hit Me - Paranoia
• Climbing The Walls - Depression - "The deep end, the deep end / People talk a lot, but they don't know / They pretend, they pretend / They don't really know how deep it goes"
• Destination Moon - Delusions
• Happier, Crazier
• He's Loco
• Hopeless Bleak Despair - Depression
• Idaho - Hallucinations
• I'm Your Boyfriend Now - Erotomania
• I Am Not Your Broom - Hallucinations, megalomania
• It Said Something - "That's not the insane part / The insane insane part is first of all it can speak"; also, it's very possible the narrator is hallucinating or schizophrenic
• Less Than One - The protagonist has been lobotomized. "I've got part of a brain/But the part that I don't have has got a migraine."
• Listless - Possibly Depression, "I'd think of a solution if I weren't so mentally ill"
• Lost My Mind - Dissociation
• I Left My Body - Dissociation
• Montana - Delusions
• Now Is Strange - Hallucinations
• Renew My Subscription - Depression, hallucinations: "Refill my prescription / To whatever that thing is / That makes the carpet stop turning into snakes"
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - Paranoia
• That Thing You Do - "I think I'm going crazy, 'cause it's drivin' me wild, that thing you do"
• The Cap'm - Delusions, paranoia
• Thermostat - Manic depression
• Till My Head Falls Off - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Wearing a Raincoat - General madness: "Needing a mind for later on / Is a friend that comes at a price"
• Where Your Eyes Don't Go - Paranoia
• Your Own Worst Enemy - Depression

Briefly mentioned

• Canajoharie - "It was right through those trees / I'm not insane"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "And now the song is over now, and now..." - mythomania, Parkinson's Disease^[1]
• The Fellowship Of Hell - "All your friends are kleptomaniacs"
• Flo Wheeler - "Your driving is driving everybody insane."
• I'm Not A Loser - You're not delirious with despair", "You're not hallucinating this sea anemone chorus line at all"
• Rocket Ship - "The thing that you'll see will make you go insane"
• Old Pine Box - "Your mom thinks you're out of your mind"
• Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - "Reagan closed the hospitals for the mentally ill / Train stations filled up with the mentally ill"
• Spiralling Shape - "The spiraling shape will make you go insane"
• Tesla - "Maybe that knowledge would drive one insane"
• Unpronounceable - "Looking at / A depression on the sofa / And over time it flattens out / But I am still depressed"
• When Will You Die - "You're insane / You are bad / You wreck everything you touch / And you're a sociopath"