Sheldon Cooper Character Analysis

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In many cases, fear serves as a kind of defense mechanism, protecting us from all danger of encroaching on our well-being. It becomes more alert, able to protect from harm, to escape from the impending threat. The fear is inherent to every person, to some degree, and can perform a protective role, protecting our lives from all sorts of dangers. Fear has a specific object. That object can somehow analyze it, compete with it and sustain it, such as to treat it. It is impossible to fight with existential anxiety, because there is no object that you want to meet, in addition to being as a whole. If a person is covered by alarm, it turns out, he or she is deprived of support - there is helplessness, confusion, inadequate response. Therefore, in …show more content…

Sheldon Cooper is one of the main characters of “The Bing Bang Theory”. He has many oddities. This character is clearly suffering from a mental disorder. Sheldon has a number of qualities associated with autism spectrum, such as weak social activity, lack of empathy, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and many other features that make it one of the most eccentric and weird characters in the show. Many people believe that Sheldon is autistic. He is paranoid and perfectionist; his whole life goes according to the schedule. He also suffers from narcissism - exalting himself above the rest; filth-dread - fear of germs; arachnophobia (fear of spiders); hypochondria (fear of diseases and constant complaints about his health) and many other phobias. Sheldon also has other funny phobias and quality, indicating certain psychiatric disorders. For example, inability to lie, a ban on the entrance to his bedroom, inability to differentiate irony, sarcasm and humor, he cannot keep secrets. He is convinced that many people lead a disordered life, focus too much on communication and other social …show more content…

Asperger's syndrome is a developmental disorder characterized by serious difficulties in social interaction and stereotyped, repetitive repertoire of interests, activities and behavior. According to Johnny L. Matson, Noha F. Minshawi, there are the following features that define the Asperger's syndrome: “social deficits, insistence on sameness, nonverbal language deficits, stereotypies, and lack of humor”. (Matson J. L., Minshawi N. F., 2006, p.17). People with this syndrome do not understand the unwritten “social rules” that most of people accept without thinking. It differs from autism primarily by the fact that speech and cognitive abilities generally remain intact. Sheldon Cooper is gawky and it is one of the feature of Asperger’s syndrome