This thesis addresses issues related to the representation of mental illness and disorders in entertainment media. It seeks to explore audiences' perceptions of mental illness and disorders in the entertainment media with a focus on depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder and looks at the situation from the perspective of patients and answers the question of how that representation affects them. With the help of a survey, it was noticed that the majority of the interviewed audience watched some of the films or series depicting depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. They find that the media distorts the picture of mental illness. Despite the media adding symptoms to portray the disease as interesting, or in the case of OCD, subtracting the symptoms, the audience certainly thinks that depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder are serious problems for patients with the diagnosis. Interviewed patients believe that the trivialization of depression and OCD has a negative effect on them, with depression simultaneously facing media stigmatization, which also negatively affects them. Patients believe that the character of media characters with mental illness is unnecessarily beautified to make the audience more attractive, and this creates a false picture of the real sufferers. The aim of this research is to highlight the great impact of the entertainment media and the power they have in creating attitudes about mental illness and disorders and about people who suffer from them. To warn about the mistakes that the entertainment media makes, which can be potentially harmful to the sick, but also to the audience.