Mr. Robot is a drama- thriller television series that plays on the cable network USA (http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot). The show stars Rami Malek whose character is Elliot Alderson, a young cyber security technician living in New York City who takes a secretive role as a computer hacker against hidden criminals. Although Elliot is a talented social engineer and develops connections with people, through his illicit activity, he has trouble doing the same in his personal life and suffers from depression and social anxiety disorder. To combat feelings of hopelessness and loneliness he self-medicates with morphine and uses suboxone to resist symptoms of withdrawal. In the show he is also seen taking recreational drugs like ecstasy. While Elliot’s …show more content…
To my knowledge, I would assume he is experiencing positive symptoms of schizophrenia, specifically delusions of persecution, because Elliot believes he is being followed or plotted against. His grotesque thoughts and beliefs were also accompanied by visual hallucinations of his father, who died of leukemia when Elliot was a young boy. He was then left in the sole care of his mother, whom he had a poor relationship with and would often abuse him. What’s interesting is that Elliot doesn’t recognize his father through these illusions and gave him a different narrative to play. He forgets an important chunk of his childhood, signaling retrograde amnesia and unconsciously assigns unusual roles for the people in his past. At the end, we learn that Elliot was never a victim to these hallucinations but suffers from dissociative identity disorder. By taking on his father’s personality and disguising him as another person, he was able to store away any memories about his father that are difficult to handle. Instead of suffering through the idea that he is alone, Elliot chooses to defuse these feelings of past trauma. In summary, being able to experience an alter personality was a coping mechanism for
Like when he was going to go home to see Phoebe but he wanted to make sure and avoid his parents. This is a strong example of avoidance in Holden, which is one of the most common traits in someone who has PTSD.Throughout the book Holden portrays many instances where he shows the strong PTSD symptom of avoidance. First off, he obviously avoids school, as he is failing every class except english. This would be demonstrated when his history teacher is reading Holden’s final paper for the class and it says, “It is all right with me if you flunk me though as I am flunking everything else except english”(12). This shows us early on in the book that Holden tries to avoid school and detach himself from responsibilities. The avoidance of school is a good indicator that something from his past is holding him back, which shows that he has PTSD. When Holden is in the taxi, he asks the driver, “Would you care to stop on the way and join me for a cocktail?”(60). This is very unlike Holden, he goes from trying to avoid all confrontation, to trying to hang out with anybody that would be willing to. This is a critical sign that his emotions and mood are changing drastically. As shown above, changes of emotional reactions and mood is a symptom of PTSD. Another symptom that Holden obtains often throughout the book is the intrusive memories. The whole book is a build up
Does J.H. Elliot’s work about the New World represent more of a Eurocentric discovery and conquest history or more of a contact and adaption history?
Trying to reinvent himself. The focus point will be how nothing will be perfect will displayed between relationships, disappointing moments and how violence wont fix anything The novel Inventing Elliot conveys the idea that Life is full of disappointments and not everything turns out to be
Ezekiel "Zeke" Elijah Elliott is one of the best running backs to ever play American football. At only 22 yrs old he has already broken numerous records and win countless awards. Elliott's network is 40million .
Most people have or have had a teacher that has inspired them. For me, the teacher that comes to mind is Mr. Rod Edson. There are many great things that describe Mr. Edson, but a few stand out to me more than others. Mr. Edson has inspired me in many ways because he has a great sense of humor, he is laid-back, and he is motivational.
At the age of 14, Alex was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. He was hospitalized for months, growing restless as the doctors tried to find the right combination of pills to make him back to “normal.” However, pills and therapy weren’t the treatment Alex needed. To keep himself busy
It is presented or characterised by loss of contact with reality through disruption or disturbance in perception (Mendiola, 2009). The observed changes in behaviour and deranged thinking result to impaired cognition and social well being in the varying interactions with the society during the person’s episode of illness (Mendiola, 2009). The three subtypes are categorized into negative symptoms, positive symptoms, and disorganized (Edward, Munro, Robins, 2014). Hallucinations and delusions are strongest in positive symptoms (Edward, Munro, Robins, 2014). Negative symptoms on the other hand affect the capacity of an individual to communicate effectively (Edward, Munro, Robins, 2014). Flat affect and the lack of pleasure or the capacity to experience it, are prevalent indications under the negative symptoms. Disorganised schizophrenia as the third subtype generally has a meagre prognosis portrayed by disorganised conduct and speech, as well as disruption in emotional interpretation (Edward, Munro, Robins,
Elliot is seen as one of the most influential modernistic poet of all time. Elliot’s poems evidently highlight the real face of modern man and modern existence by exploring the social realms that society is placed under in a desolately described, modernistic world. TS Elliot describes the industrialised world in both J Alfred Prufrock and Preludes as a disjointed, dehumanised world where mundane activities are ever-present in people’s lives. Elliot focuses on using the character’s viewpoint through the stream of consciousness as a means of highlighting the major concerns of modernism. His poems J Alfred prufrock and Preludes disclose the major concerns of modernism associated with the backdrop of the bleak, industrialised world, that is
Elliot Rodger is incredibly detailed when writing about his childhood, and he describes it as the happiest years of his life, taking up the first 5 pages to reminisce about his early life in England. After these first 5 pages his story becomes morose and Rodger begins to describe his more negative experiences in school. When recounting his early life, Rodger seems almost surprised that he was friends with girls at a young age. His hatred for the female population runs very deep and he tends to oversexualize the women that were in his life. By page 49 of his autobiography he has established that he was morbidly insecure and jealous of the young people he interacted with- a theme that would carry out until the end of his story. At page 57 Rodger starts to become violent and his hatred for the world shines through: “I was fueled both by my desire to destroy all of the injustices of the world, and to exact revenge on everyone I envy and hate. I decided that my destiny in life is to rise to power so I can impose my ideology on the world and set everything right." Elliot had become obsessed with attempting to enter the social scene and was genuinely angry at people that had relationships, had sex, and were overall happy. Starting at page 82 he begins to discuss his deep hatred for women, which continues on throughout the rest of his story, "It was society's
It is sad, really, how messed up this kid is perceived to be. While there are some warning signs for all of these, it can be hard to diagnose a mental illness based on a few abnormalities. This aside, it is safe to say that Holden suffers from the following: borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress
A patient that shows sign such as regression, inappropriate affect, and other behaviors that are childish or bizarre most likely has disorganized schizophrenia. But this is not the only type of schizophrenia, there are others such as: Paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia, and lastly residual schizophrenia.
Elliot juxtaposes life and death. Life is absent of itself in the 20th-century. This new inanimate state of the population no longer has a personal interest in productivity, creativity and learning. Winter symbolizes the stagnation of culture, for Elliot feels the people of the new age lack spirituality and emotion. Elliot references the land, roots and tubers as dead, these objects present the human life as scantily alive buried by the frozen immobile snow. The 20th-century human's natural state is the season of winter. April is the cruellest month of the year for the tubers and roots are resuscitated by spring rain and water which symbolize the peoples reunification with culture. The objects of frozen water and rocks in winter represent
Phil a 22 year old harvard student and has no family and is a nerd who doesn't like to bothered and is always reading about the building robots he has lots of engineering friends and never leaves his room only for class and lunch. He owns a factory that builds robots and works very hard there trying to build a new robot the could help the military.
Elliot who passes away due to Cholera. A relationship can be drawn between the inability of
A common interpretation of the poem is that Elliot wrote about his experiences in converting to Christianity and put them into the context and mind frame of one of the Magi. This interpretation seems to fit very well.