Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) develops as a result of traumatic events during childhood. The serial Killer in Criminal Minds, Tobias, has two personalities aside from his own: His father and Michael the Archangel. According to The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology by Kelly Ferris (2016), Chronic conditions may not be detected until the symptoms occur later in the condition’s progression, and they develop over a long period of time.The symptoms of DID occur gradually into adulthood and isn’t detected until later in the condition’s progression. Therefore, DID is more of a chronic than acute condition, which suddenly appears, like the flu. Like the flu, DID does have treatments. Yet, Tobias never seeks …show more content…
When the agents tell the neighbor Tobias may have killed his own father, the neighbor says good. He never questions Tobias’ health. He thinks it is a healthy reaction to his abusive father. Symbolic interactionism states that health and illness are actually social constructs. It is all depends on history, culture, and the context of situations. Society defines which conditions are healthy and which are not. The neighbor, possibly through different social interactions with Tobias and others, thinks that since Tobias’ father was awful to Tobias, he deserved what happened to him. Society would not congratulate a killer for murdering a father and other victims. The killer would be seen as a threat. However, the neighbor shows that health and illness are constructs made mainstream by society. The courts use mental illness as a defense but the neighbor may still see that Tobias did what made sense, regardless of health. The neighbor shows that the knowledge he has of Tobias and his family adds to his dependence on situational context and history in order to make his judgement of
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) develops as a result of traumatic events during childhood. The serial Killer in Criminal Minds, Tobias, has two personalities aside from his own: His father and Michael the Archangel. According to The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology by Kelly Ferris (2016), Chronic conditions may not be detected until the symptoms occur later in the condition’s progression, and they develop over a long period of time.The symptoms of DID occur gradually into adulthood and isn’t detected until later in the condition’s progression. Therefore, DID is more of a chronic than acute condition, which suddenly appears, like the flu. Like the flu, DID does have treatments. Yet, Tobias never seeks …show more content…
When the agents tell the neighbor Tobias may have killed his own father, the neighbor says good. He never questions Tobias’ health. He thinks it is a healthy reaction to his abusive father. Symbolic interactionism states that health and illness are actually social constructs. It is all depends on history, culture, and the context of situations. Society defines which conditions are healthy and which are not. The neighbor, possibly through different social interactions with Tobias and others, thinks that since Tobias’ father was awful to Tobias, he deserved what happened to him. Society would not congratulate a killer for murdering a father and other victims. The killer would be seen as a threat. However, the neighbor shows that health and illness are constructs made mainstream by society. The courts use mental illness as a defense but the neighbor may still see that Tobias did what made sense, regardless of health. The neighbor shows that the knowledge he has of Tobias and his family adds to his dependence on situational context and history in order to make his judgement of