Waking Madison (originally titled Mad World) is a 2011 American independent drama film written and directed by Katherine Brooks and starring Sarah Roemer and Elisabeth Shue.

Dr. Barnes interviews Madison who confides that there is a little girl who she is not allowed to talk about, that someone will get mad and try to hurt her if she does.

While strapped to the floor of a padded room, Margaret says that her mom forced her to read the Bible in the closet.

Madison did things she never would have done; had sex with strange men, smoked, took what looked like ecstasy and fooled around with women.

Each patient—aside from Madison who was not there—was assigned to film herself with a video camera, talking about anything, like a visual diary, Margaret refused.

Madison, however, locks herself in her apartment, using a video camera to document herself, similar to the girls in the mental hospital.

Madison vows that if she does not have the answer to her questions and feel more at peace with her life, she will kill herself on the 30th day.

Oftentimes, Madison has various, frequent dreams; everything being upside down, a girl whose mouth is taped, and one hand reaches for her, walks through the hall with dripping water and weird light bulbs.