Oh, I forgot, half of the work by the Ramones:
Teenage Lobotomy
(Guess I have to break the news, that I got no mind to lose)
Bang! Bang! Maxwell’s silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang! Bang! Maxwell’s silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead
Kinky Friedman’s The Ballad of Charles “Texas Tower” Whitman, based on a true event.
Cat Steven’s Sad Lisa is about depression.
Jeremy by Pearl Jam - biting the recess lady’s breast doesn’t seem like something a normal kid would do.
I always thought **Carry On Wayward Son **by Kansas was about mental illness, but it can be interpreted in different ways I guess.
I don’t know much about The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster other than that they really need a shorter band name, but Psychosis Safari is a pretty solid description of having a mental illness.
There’s also Everybody Knows That You’re Insane by Queens of the Stone Age (which is worth a listen for the opening guitar part alone).
Vincent. By Don McClean.
Avenue Q’s The Holi-Daz is all about how to cope with the holidays
It’s that special time of year again that’s meant for peace and joy.
But then your relatives descend like locust and people beat up strangers for a to.
he season turns into a stressful nightmare for every girl and guy
But we never let it get to us. Let us tell you why.
We’re drinking out way through the holidays
What a wonderful way to survive
When you’re losing your grip then it’s time to get ripped
Somewhere in the world it’s always after five.
We’re drinking our way through he holidays
Pouring beer and vodka and wine.
We’re drowning in cheer this time of the year
From Hannukah to Old Lang Syne.
Just Another Nervous Wreck by Supertramp is about loneliness and depression.
Psychotic Reaction by The Count Five
I Live in a Split Level Head by Napoleon XIV
Crazy In The Night by Kim Carnes
Hey Hey Take Me Away by Ian Dury is mostly about physical illness (I think it must relate to the period he spent in hospital with polio) but it certainly touches on mental illness:
In fact there’s some pretty dark stuff on that album. Manic Depression:
The album title? Laughter, of course.
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Warren Zevon’s “Excitable Boy” certainly fits the bill.
Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell
Staind was pretty much all about depression. It’s always raining in my head? Inside you’re ugly, ugly like me? It’s been awhile since I’ve gone and fucked things up just like I always do? Who were those guys and how did they go back in time and get inside my 13-year-old head?
Rilo Kiley, “A Better Son/Daughter”, about singer Jenny Lewis’ bipolar disorder:
And sometimes when you’re on
You’re really fuckin’ on
And your friends sing along and they love you
But the lows are so extreme
That the good feels fuckin’ cheap
And it teases you for weeks with its absence
Country Death Song-Violent Femmes
“They’re Coming to Take Me Away” by Napoleon XIV.
Woops - **Burpo the Wonder Mutt **beat me to it. 
“With My Daddy in the Attic” is …… holy cow…
Tom Paxton won a beautiful tribute called Phil, after his long time friend Phil Ochs committed suicide.
I know I’m going to spend the rest of my lifetime a-wondering why
You found yourself so badly hurt you had to die.