Jim Carrey was born January 17, 1962. He is known for his adventurous acting in many movies some including, Ace Ventura, the Mask, Dumb and Dumber, and Yes Man. Jim Carrey was born in Ontario, Canada. He eventually relocated to Los Angeles, California to pursue his comedy career. He landed a spot on the show In Living Color, which set his career into motion.
The disorder I believe Mr. Carrey may have is Dissociative Identity Disorder. DID is defined in our textbook as having multiple personalities while all simultaneously coexisting (Barlow and Durand, 2015). On the criteria list, the first item is “disruption of identity characterized by two ro more distinct personality states” (Barlow and Durand, 2015, 201). Many of Jim Carrey’s co-workers describe him as “wacky” (Zimmerman, 2015). During the workings of Man on the Moon, co-star Paul Giamatti recalls Carrey always being in character. Even when they were not on set, he would act like Andy Kaufman. “[he was] stuffing his pockets with Limburger cheese a characterization of Andy Kaufman” (Zimmerman, 2015, para. 4). In school, Carrey’s teacher’s said he was always performing. He would “become” a new “character” every day at the end of class (Black, 2014). …show more content…
201). When Jim Carrey would start acting in class, he would sometimes not realize what he was doing. His peers and teacher recall having to tell him what was going on after the fact (Black, 2014). This is an important in diagnosing Carrey. As he grew older and became more famous, he was able to pass off his splitting off into characters as “being in character”. When his alter “Jim Carrey” become in control again, he covers his track by saying that he was trying out a new character. But in reality, I believe this to be his other alters taking
The disorder I believe Mr. Carrey may have is Dissociative Identity Disorder. DID is defined in our textbook as having multiple personalities while all simultaneously coexisting (Barlow and Durand, 2015). On the criteria list, the first item is “disruption of identity characterized by two ro more distinct personality states” (Barlow and Durand, 2015, 201). Many of Jim Carrey’s co-workers describe him as “wacky” (Zimmerman, 2015). During the workings of Man on the Moon, co-star Paul Giamatti recalls Carrey always being in character. Even when they were not on set, he would act like Andy Kaufman. “[he was] stuffing his pockets with Limburger cheese a characterization of Andy Kaufman” (Zimmerman, 2015, para. 4). In school, Carrey’s teacher’s said he was always performing. He would “become” a new “character” every day at the end of class (Black, 2014). …show more content…
201). When Jim Carrey would start acting in class, he would sometimes not realize what he was doing. His peers and teacher recall having to tell him what was going on after the fact (Black, 2014). This is an important in diagnosing Carrey. As he grew older and became more famous, he was able to pass off his splitting off into characters as “being in character”. When his alter “Jim Carrey” become in control again, he covers his track by saying that he was trying out a new character. But in reality, I believe this to be his other alters taking