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Songs about Mental Illness

You don't have to be crazy to identify with these songs, but it sure helps! Herein, a collection of songs revolving around the theme of going gaga, raving mad, slipping into insanity, losing your marbles, shorting out your circuits, seeing faces in the wallpaper, and becoming one with the squirrels.

The thing that distinguishes humans from the lesser beasts is our powers of reason, or at least the illusion that we have that. So it comes as no surprise that one of our most primal fears is losing that advantage, especially since it can happen without our realizing it. And then there's all the many different ways your brain can break, too. Everything from paranoia to schizophrenia is covered here.

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  19th Nervous Breakdown
  Rolling Stones, The
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  21st Century Schizoid Man
  King Crimson
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  3 a.m.
  Matchbox 20
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  4st 7lb
  Manic Street Preachers
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  A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy
  Modest Mouse
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  Absolutely Bill's Mood
  They Might Be Giants
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  Alcohol
  Barenaked Ladies
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  All of Me
  John Legend
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  All the Madmen
  David Bowie
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  Animal I Have Become
  Three Days Grace
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  Asylum
  Disturbed
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  Ballad of Dwight Fry
  Alice Cooper
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  Basket Case
  Green Day
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  Bleed Like Me
  Garbage
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  Blut Royale
  Combichrist
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  Boris the Spider
  Who, The
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  Brain Damage
  Pink Floyd
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  Brain Damage
  Eminem
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  Breathe Me
  Sia
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  Brian Wilson
  Barenaked Ladies
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  Comfortably Numb
  Pink Floyd
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  Coming Undone wit It
  Korn
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  Crazy
  Gnarls Barkley
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  Crazy
  Seal
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  Crazy
  Barenaked Ladies
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  Crazy Train
  Ozzy Osbourne
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  Destroyer
  Kinks, The
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  Die Die My Darling
  Metallica
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  Disturbia
  Rihanna
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  Don't Let Me Get Me
  Pink
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  Dull Boy
  Mudvayne
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  Ellsworth
  Rascal Flatts
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  Emulate
  Obie Trice
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  Every Breath You Take
  Police, The
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  Fake Happy
  Paramore
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  Feathers
  Coheed And Cambria
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  Figure 0.9
  Linkin Park
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  Flagpole Sitta
  Harvey Danger
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  Flash Delerium
  MGMT
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  Frayed Ends of Sanity
  Metallica
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  Girl on the Verge
  Sarah Hudson
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  Given Up
  Linkin Park
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  Gotta Get Away
  Offspring, The
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  Hammer Smashed Face
  Cannibal Corpse
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  Haunted
  Evanescence
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  Headfirst for Halos
  My Chemical Romance
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  Hide in your Shell
  Supertramp
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  Hopeless Bleak Despair
  They Might Be Giants
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  HRSA
  Blue October
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  I Wanna Be Sedated
  Ramones, The
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  I'll Be That Girl
  Barenaked Ladies
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  I'm Going Slightly Mad
  Queen
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  Insane
  Eminem
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  Insane
  Scars on Broadway
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  Joey
  Concrete Blonde
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  Johnny
  System of a Down
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  Lithium
  Nirvana
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  Lithium
  Evanescence
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  Little Black Submarines
  Black Keys, The
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  Longview
  Green Day
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  Losing My Mind
  Weezer
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  Lost in Paradise
  Evanescence
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  Manic Depression
  Jimi Hendrix
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  Me Inside
  Slipknot
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  Mein Teil
  Rammstein
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  Mental
  Eels
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  Mentally Yours
  Savatage
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  Metanoia
  MGMT
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  Misunderstood
  Wilco
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  Monster
  Skillet
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  Monster
  Imagine Dragons
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  Mother's Little Helper
  Rolling Stones, The
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  My Darling
  Eminem
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  Natalie Marie and 1 CC
  Spill Canvas, The
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  Needle in the Hay
  Elliot Smith
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  No Rain
  Blind Melon
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  On a Plain
  Nirvana
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  One Step Closer
  Linkin Park
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  Open Wounds
  Skillet
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  Ophelia
  Natalie Merchant
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  Panic Attack
  Dream Theater
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  Paper Bag
  Fiona Apple
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  Paranoid
  Black Sabbath
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  Pressure
  Billy Joel
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  Psycho
  System of a Down
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  Psycho
  Puddle of Mudd
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  Psycho Killer
  Talking Heads
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  Rapture
  Hurt
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  Retarded Disfigured Clown
  Blue October
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  Round Here
  Counting Crows
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  Say Something
  A Great Big World
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  Schizophrenia
  Blue October
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  See The Constellation
  They Might Be Giants
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  She Misses Him
  Tim Rushlow
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  Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  Pink Floyd
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  Skinny
  Filter
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  Skinny Love
  Birdy
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  Soul to Squeeze
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  Split Personality
  Pink
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  Stan
  Eminem
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  Still Crazy After All These Years
  Paul Simon
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  Stockholm Syndrome
  Muse
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  Straw Hat And Old Dirty Hank
  Barenaked Ladies
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  Sunny Came Home
  Shawn Colvin
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  Sweating Bullets
  Megadeth
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  The Apple
  Eminem
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  The Bird and the Worm
  Used, The
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  The Kill
  30 Seconds To Mars
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  The Man Who Sold The World
  Nirvana
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  The Monster
  Eminem
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  The Real Me
  Who, The
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  The Right to Go Insane
  Megadeth
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  The Sun is Rising
  Britt Nicole
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  They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
  Napoleon XIV
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  This is Where It Ends
  Barenaked Ladies
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  Thorazine Shuffle
  Savatage
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  Til My Head Falls Off
  They Might Be Giants
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  Too Much on My Mind
  Kinks, The
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  Tourettes
  Nirvana
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  Unwell
  Matchbox 20
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  Voices
  Disturbed
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  War on Drugs
  Barenaked Ladies
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  Warrior
  Demi Lovato
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  Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
  Metallica
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  Welcome to the Congregation
  Alice Cooper
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  What Makes You Beautiful
  One Direction
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  Whiskey Man
  Who, The
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  White Coats
  Foxes
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  Who Can It Be Now
  Men At Work
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  Who Needs Sleep?
  Barenaked Ladies
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  Why Must I Be Sad?
  They Might Be Giants
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  Yer Blues
  Beatles
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  You May Be Right
  Billy Joel
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  Your Evil Soul
  Spill Canvas, The
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  Your Sword Verses My Dagger
  Silverstein
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  Zak and Sara
  Ben Folds
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  Zoloft
  Ween

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