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Stories Chronicling Mental Illness

These are selects I have read possessing mental illness elements. Many of them are negative portrayals. It seems that there is a great deal of modern fiction tackling that, and I hope to read many of those.
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Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Bell Jar
1
Sylvia Plath
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wallpaper
2
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
3
William Shakespeare
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Tell-Tale Heart
4
Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee
Annabel Lee
5
Shutter Island (Denis Lehane)
Shutter Island
6
Denis Lehane
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7
Ken Kesey
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
8
Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
9
Joseph Conrad
Psycho (Robert Bloch)
Psycho
10
Robert Bloch
Edgar Allan Poe's the Raven and Other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe)
Edgar Allan Poe's the Raven and Other Tales
11
Edgar Allan Poe
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club
12
Chuck Palahniuk
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
13
Miguel De Cervantes
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
14
William Shakespeare
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
The Turn of the Screw
15
Henry James
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
16
Herman Melville
The Shining (Stephen King)
The Shining
17
Stephen King
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
18
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher
19
Edgar Allan Poe
The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)
The Silence of the Lambs
20
Thomas Harris
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
2001: A Space Odyssey
21
Arthur C. Clarke
A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
A Rose for Emily
22
William Faulkner
Book of Daniel
Book of Daniel
23
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