Nelle is psychotic
Peter brainwashes Drew with The Tower tarot card
Mental and debilitating illnesses are common in soap operas. Some examples in General Hospital include:
Addiction
- Alexis Davis (alcohol)
- A.J. Quartermaine (alcohol; deceased)
- Brenda Barrett (pain killers)
- Chet Driscoll (pain killers)
- Emily Quartermaine (pain killers; deceased)
- Hamilton Finn (pain killers)
- Jim Hobart (alcohol)
- Iris Fairchild (alcohol)
- Karen Wexler (pain killers; deceased)
- Kristina Corinthos-Davis (narcotics)
- Lucky Spencer (pain killers)
- Lulu Spencer (alcohol)
- Mike Corbin (gambling; deceased)
- Monica Quartermaine (alcohol)
- Morgan Corinthos (gambling; deceased)
- Patrick Drake (pain killers)
- Rafe Kovich, Jr. (cocaine, heroin; deceased)
- Rhonda Wexler (alcohol)
- Roy Lansing (drugs)
- Sasha Gilmore (cocaine; heart attack, hospitalized; pills)
- Skye Chandler-Quartermaine (alcohol)
- Terry Brock (alcohol)
Alzheimer's Disease
- Mike Corbin (deceased due to complications)
- Yvonne Godfrey (life support & feeding tube due to complications)
Amnesia
- Anna Devane
- Lucas Jones
- Nikolas Cassadine
- Sonny Corinthos
- Jason Morgan (deceased)
- Drew Cain
- Lulu Spencer
Autism Spectrum
- Leo Falconeri (officially diagnosed)
- Jonah Gatlin (officially diagnosed)
- Damian Spinelli (possible; undisclosed)
Bipolar Disorder
- Morgan Corinthos (deceased)
- Sonny Corinthos (currently off medication)
Blindness
- Alex Devane (temporary due to fictional virus HN-242; deceased)
- Anna Devane (temporary due to HN-242)
- Arthur Cabot (temporary due to HN-242)
- Chloe Morgan (temporary; deceased)
- Drew Cain (temporary due to HN-242)
- Elizabeth Webber-Baldwin (recovered)
- Jason Morgan (temporary due to HN-242; deceased)
- Kevin Collins (temporary due to HN-242)
- Ryan Chamberlain (temporary due to HN-242)
- Stone Cates (deceased)
- Victoria Parker (surgically corrected)
Bone Conditions
- Bailey Caldwell (Scoliosis; fixed)
- Alex Devane (Rheumatoid arthritis; deceased)
- Alexis Davis (Osteoporosis)
- Valentin Cassadine (Scoliosis; fixed)
- Martha McKee (Paraplegia)
Brain Tumors
- Franco Baldwin (removed; personality change; returned; deceased)
- Nikolas Cassadine (removed)
- Dominique Baldwin (fatal; 1993)
- Oscar Nero-Quartermaine (fatal; 2019)
Brain Washing
Cancer
- Meg Baldwin (breast cancer diagnosis; mastectomy; 1970; deceased)
- Eddie Phillips (spinal cancer diagnosis; fatal 1982)
- Paige Bowen (breast cancer diagnosis; fatal 1993)
- Monica Quartermaine (breast cancer diagnosis; mastectomy; 1994)
- Epiphany Johnson (breast cancer diagnosis; chemotherapy; 1996)
- Emily Quartermaine (breast cancer diagnosis; chemotherapy; 2003; deceased)
- Shirley Smith (cancer diagnosis; fatal 2010)
- Josslyn Jacks (stage 5 kidney cancer diagnosis; transplant; 2011)
- Lenny Caulfield (pancreatic cancer diagnosis; fatal 2021)
- Willow Tait (leukemia diagnosis; 2022)
Comatose
- Cassandra Pierce (Jan 2-Aug 23, 2018; woke up; now deceased)
- Drew Cain (Aug 31-Sep 21, 2017; woke up)
- Elizabeth Webber-Baldwin (May 2007; woke up)
- Franco Baldwin (Dates unknown, woke up; Nov 25, 2020; woke up; now deceased)
- Jason Morgan (1996; woke up; now deceased)
- Jolene Crowell (Oct 4, 2007-present)
- Michael Corinthos (Apr 8, 2008-May 15, 2009; woke up)
- Lisa Niles (Jun-Oct 2011; woke up; now deceased)
- Lucas Jones (May 25-26, 2016 & Dec 4, 2019-Feb 5, 2020; woke up)
- Lulu Spencer (Nov 25, 2020-present)
- Nina Reeves (1992-2014; woke up)
- Peter August (Dec 20, 2021-Jan 3, 2021; woke up; now deceased)
- Robert Scorpio (late 1980s & Dec 18, 2012-Oct 4, 2013; woke up)
- Robin Scorpio-Drake (Nov 2008; woke up)
- Ryan Chamberlain (Jun 6-12, 2019 & Nov 6-Dec 11, 2020; woke up)
- Sam McCall (May 2006; Mar 2-3, 2017 & Jul 28, 2017; woke up)
- Oz Haggerty (Aug 2022; medically induced, woke up via injection)
Deafness
- Dominique Baldwin (temporary; deceased)
- Sam McCall (temporary)
Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Connie Falconeri/Kate Howard (deceased)
- Luke Spencer/Fluke (deceased)
Heart Condition
- A.J. Quartermaine (congenital/hereditary; treated; deceased)
- Edward Quartermaine (deceased)
- Joel Stratton (hereditary)
- Michael Corinthos (congenital/hereditary; treated)
- Nancy Brewer (deceased)
- Owen Stratton (hereditary; deceased)
- Wiley Corinthos (congenital/hereditary; in treatment)
Huntington's Disease
- Britt Westbourne
- Cesar Faison (deceased)
Hypochondria
- Cassandra Pierce (deceased)
Hypothermia
- Elizabeth Webber-Baldwin (twice)
- Jason Morgan (deceased)
- Lulu Spencer
- Sam McCall
Lasting Drug Effects
- Franco Baldwin (LSD - temporary; hallucinations; deceased)
- Heather Webber (LSD - permanent; psychosis)
- Morgan Corinthos (bipolar meds - temporary; ED; deceased)
- Olivia Quartermaine (LSD - temporary; visions)
Light Sensitivity
- Nikolas Cassadine
Mental Illness
- Burt Ramsey (Catatonia)
- Corey Blythe (Neurological disorder; cured)
- Danny McCall (Fragile-x syndrome; deceased)
- Heidi (Catatonia)
- Laura Collins (Psychomotor dissociation & catatonia; recovered)
- Marshall Ashford (Schizophrenia)
- Robin Scorpio-Drake (Catatonia; recovered)
- Sam McCall (Toxoplasmosis)
- Susan Hornsby (Catatonia)
- Tiffany Donely (Catatonia; recovered)
- Tracy Quartermaine (Brain worms; recovered)
Mind Mapping
- Alex Devane (deceased)
- Anna Devane
- Drew Cain
- Franco Baldwin (deceased)
- Jason Morgan (deceased)
- Kevin Collins
- Ryan Chamberlain
Nervous Breakdown
- Elizabeth Webber-Baldwin (multiple)
- Laura Collins (twice)
- Meg Baldwin (deceased)
Neurological Disorders
- Ryan Chamberlain (Locked-In Syndrome, Jan 7, 2021-present; faked, 2022-present)
- Martha McKee (Paraplegia)
- Leo Quartermaine (Autism Spectrum)
- Jonah Gatlin (Autism Spectrum)
Panic Attacks
- A.J. Quartermaine (deceased)
- Franco Baldwin (deceased)
- Marshall Ashford
Post-Partum Depression
- Carly Corinthos
- Robin Scorpio-Drake
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Brando Corbin
- Chet Driscoll
- Connor Bishop (deceased)
- Dante Falconeri
- Molly Lansing-Davis
- T.J. Ashford
- Todd Manning
- Tommy Ashford (deceased)
- Shawn Butler
Seizures
- Franco Baldwin (deceased)
- Jason Morgan (deceased)
- Oscar Nero-Quartermaine (deceased)
- Sonny Corinthos
- Tracy Quartermaine
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections
- Darby Collette (Mycoplasma genitalium, "MG")
- Dillon Quartermaine (MG)
- Kiki Jerome (MG; deceased)
- Morgan Corinthos (MG; deceased)
Traumatic Brain Injury
- Jason Morgan (permanent; personality change; deceased)
- Lulu Spencer (diagnosed Cerebral Contusion/Edema; comatose)
- Olivia Jerome (diagnosed; institutionalized)
Unnamed Mental Illness
- Heather Webber (diagnosed; institutionalized)
- Lisa Niles (undiagnosed; deceased)
- Nelle Benson-Jerome (undiagnosed; deceased)
- Ryan Chamberlain (diagnosed; in prison)
- Stephen Clay (undiagnosed; deceased)
- Susan Hornsby (diagnosed; institutionalized)
- Sarah Abbott (diagnosed; institutionalized)
- Betsy Frank (diagnosed; temporarily institutionalized)
- Elizabeth Webber-Baldwin (recent fugue/trance state; undiagnosed)
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