Susanna Kaysen har fået stillet en diagnose af en psykiater, hun aldrig før har set. En diagnose, hvis symptomer ville passe på enhver teenagepige. Alligevel tilbringer Susanne sine næste to år på en psykiatrisk anstalt, hvor hun møder en hel række indespærrede skæbner. Deriblandt sociopaten Lisa, der er desperat efter at komme væk fra dette ingenmandsland. Sammen med Lisa stiller Susanna og alle de andre det samme krav: De vil have deres liv tilbage.

'By the Sea' foregår i 70erne og handler om et smuldrende ægteskab. Den tidligere danser Vanessa og hendes mand, forfatteren Roland, rejser rundt i Frankrig, mens de krampagtigt forsøger at holde fast i de følelser, de engang nærede for hinanden. Afstanden vokser sig større og større, og da parret slår sig ned i en lille havneby, begynder de hver især at blive tiltrukket af andre mennesker

Lizzie (Christina Ricci) er netop begyndt på college. Hun er smart, populær og smuk, og udadtil har hun alt, man kan ønske sig. Men hun lider af ukontrollerbare humørsvingninger og under den følelsesmæssige tumult, de medfører. Anfaldene tiltager og efterhånden afskærer den depressive adfærd Lizzie fra dem, hun holder af. Desuden har Lizzies mange mislykkede terapikonsultationer været en stor økonomisk belast-ning for moderen (Jessica Lange) og gjort mor/datter-forholdet mere anspændt, end det var i forvejen. Da lægen udskriver Lizzie en ny medicin ændrer hendes tilstand sig langsomt i positiv retning, og hun begynder at øjne muligheden for en nogenlunde normal tilværelse.

Et nygift par flytter til familiens hesteranch, hvor mandens besiddende mor beslutter sig for at slippe af med sin nye svigerdatter.

Den erotisk nærværende Betty finder sin kærestes gamle kladdehæfter med en roman, som han har kasseret og glemt. Betty beslutter sig for at ruske op i det hensovende geni og give ham ro til at genoptage skriveriet. Men kan han beskytte den skrøbelige unge kvinde mod en verden, der ikke altid lever op til drømmene?

When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...

A man suffering from borderline personality disorder is married to two women, who don’t know the other exists. As bills pile up and cracks start to show, the women independently start to suspect something is wrong.

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of adults by herself.

Maria is a student at the university of Essen, Germany, living and working in a gray, unpleasant, and anonymous environment. While she has little problem finding someone for a one night stand, she rebuffs her lovers in such a rude way that they actually don't know what's going on. But what seems to be a negative attitude at first glance is in fact much worse: Maria is suffering from borderline syndrome, a serious psychotic disease that makes her fail to develop a continuous, reliable personality, from her own perspective as well as from the perspective of those she meets. Then one day, she bumps into Jan, a student who falls in love with her without delay. He's awaiting a hard time when he has to learn how hard it is to stay loyal and faithful to a person who, in her own words, "has a different world inside of her head" and who feels that "there is something inside of me that eats me up."

In a psychiatric hospital, a junior doctor is treating a young black man diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The patient is having a final interview with the doctor, who has invited his mentor to sit in on the session. He is concerned that the diagnosis is inaccurate and would like the patient hospitalised for longer. The senior doctor, however, disagrees.

An intense thriller about a lonely bookseller's obsessive love affair, and her protective best friend, who alone knows the horrible truth about her obsession.

A young man falls in love with a young woman with borderline personality disorder, but it will upset the relationship despite her mental illness.

A landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from, Borderline Personality Disorder. The production also features family members as well as leading clinicians, including Otto F. Kernberg, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhDl John Gunderson, MD; Wayne Fenton, MD; and Perry Hoffman, PhD, who put their stories into a broader social and medical context.

A girl tries to get rid of her inner emptiness.