Fight Club: Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

The name of the movie I chose to do this assignment on is Fight Club released October 15, 1999. I choose this movie because the main character has several disorders that the text discusses. Ranging from insomnia, dissociative identity disorder (DID), to hallucinations. I believe the main mental illness implied throughout the movie was (DID). He surfed from extreme hallucinations which caused him to see his other personality as a real person, who was actually his best friend named Tyler Durdnt. He was so unaware that he had a disorder he would actually argue and get into fistfights with Tyler. Which turns out he was actually fighting himself. He displayed several symptoms from his (DID) such as when he was his self his personality was very soft and timid. However, when Tyler appeared he was much more aggressive and hostile. For example, he worked for a popular insurance company but Tyler ran an underground fighting establishment known as fight club. He could also not remember some of the events that took place while he was Tyler. For example, he would be staying in different hotels on business trips. When he was Tyler, he would make international calls, but when he returned to
In this case may have been an extreme condition. Tyler Durdnt was a completely different person, with a completely different identity. The people around him knew him as himself and as Tyler Durdnt even though he did not know him and Tyler were the same person. Individuals he would meet would ask him if he knew Tyler Durdnt. Apparently, when he was Tyler he would tell others not discuss prior events with himself if he was not Tyler. In one scene, Tyler poured acid on his hand and held him at the table while the acid burned his hand. Not knowing he was actually torturing his self. People around him would see these acts of violence he would place upon his self but never told him that he was Tyler. That is how extreme his condition