"Basket Case" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their third album, Dookie, which was released in 1994. After the single was released, the song spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about his struggle with anxiety; before he was diagnosed with a panic disorder, he thought he was going crazy. Billie Joe once commented that "The only way I knew how to deal with it was to write a song about it.