Discuss Elliot Alderson, our troubled lead character. What is real, and what isn't?
Discuss Elliot Alderson, our troubled lead character. What is real, and what isn't?
Archived comment(s) from Elliot Alderson:
Why is there not mention in the wiki of Elliot being Schiozphrenic. He literally says, in the first episode "Shit, I'm a schizo."
That doesn't mean he's schizophrenic, and the show has been clear as to what his diagnosis is.
But in fact he is gotta be a schizo! Or why would he imagine MR ROBOT?
Almost no schizophrenics have visual hallucinations. Almost all of them have auditory ones only (hearing voices), or they might have other things, like paranoia or magical thinking. Visual hallucinations are some other major problem — often medical, or a drug intoxication or withdrawal — until proven otherwise. Buried in the back section of DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), if you have a hallucination that’s fantastical and the person does recognize it’s not real, it’s a symptom of a conversion disorder — they’re called pseudohallucinations. It fits his whole global thing where you have selective forgetting and weird hallucinations that don’t fit a typical schizophrenia picture.
Sam Esmail said he wrote Elliot as having Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) here