Bender notes that the film "overplays the idea that violence and mental illness are linked ... If ever there was a superhero that could shoulder such treatment, it was Batman, Payton says.

Fletcher Wortmann is the author of Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (St. Martin's ... his senior thesis on the evolution of the superhero in American culture.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a disorder where people have uncontrollable and recurring thoughts or repetitive behaviors ...

While Pure O is not classified as a diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” Healthline says professionals use the term to ...