"Basket Case" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day. It is the seventh track and third single from their third album, Dookie (1994). The song spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Green Day vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong said "Basket Case" is about his struggle with anxiety; before he was diagnosed with a panic disorder years afterward, he thought he was going crazy. Armstrong commented that at the time, "The only way I could know what the hell was going on was to write a song about it."