The Movie
The movie Fight Club from 1999 was based off the novel Fight Club written by Chuck Palhaniuk in 1996 while his mother was dying.
Fight Club introduces the main character as the “Narrator” played by Edward Norton. The Narrator also known as Cornelius, through the movie the narrator takes the viewer through the process of mental breakdown of Tyler Durden who is played by Brad Pitt. The movie starts with the Narator/Tyler Durden suffering insomnia, depression, PTSD, narcissism and in the end it's revealed, the narrator has a split personality/ multiple personality or as it is referred to clinically, dissociative identity disorder or (DID).
The narrator sees a physician about not being able to sleep (insomnia) and to get prescribed medications …show more content…
And with a case of the Narrator/Tyler Durbin, the signs and symptoms were observed by others as well as himself.
The second part, is the individual must suffer amnesia where they may have gaps in the day’s events which Tyler Durbin had displayed when he went to other cities and learned that he had already been there and started another fight clubs which he had no recollection of and was only aware of this when a bartender wearing a HALO told the narrator, that he (the narrator) was Tyler Durbin.
DSM-5 also states that the person must be distressed by this disorder and have troubles functioning in the areas of one’s life that are interrupted by the disorder. Tyler Durbin could no longer function in the life he was living as the narrator, he had quit his job, blew up his condo and moved into an abandoned home in an industrial area to disassociate himself from who he was in order to function as another
The movie Fight Club from 1999 was based off the novel Fight Club written by Chuck Palhaniuk in 1996 while his mother was dying.
Fight Club introduces the main character as the “Narrator” played by Edward Norton. The Narrator also known as Cornelius, through the movie the narrator takes the viewer through the process of mental breakdown of Tyler Durden who is played by Brad Pitt. The movie starts with the Narator/Tyler Durden suffering insomnia, depression, PTSD, narcissism and in the end it's revealed, the narrator has a split personality/ multiple personality or as it is referred to clinically, dissociative identity disorder or (DID).
The narrator sees a physician about not being able to sleep (insomnia) and to get prescribed medications …show more content…
And with a case of the Narrator/Tyler Durbin, the signs and symptoms were observed by others as well as himself.
The second part, is the individual must suffer amnesia where they may have gaps in the day’s events which Tyler Durbin had displayed when he went to other cities and learned that he had already been there and started another fight clubs which he had no recollection of and was only aware of this when a bartender wearing a HALO told the narrator, that he (the narrator) was Tyler Durbin.
DSM-5 also states that the person must be distressed by this disorder and have troubles functioning in the areas of one’s life that are interrupted by the disorder. Tyler Durbin could no longer function in the life he was living as the narrator, he had quit his job, blew up his condo and moved into an abandoned home in an industrial area to disassociate himself from who he was in order to function as another