In Me, Myself and Irene, the main character, Charlie, has dissociative identity disorder. A dissociative disorder is a condition that involves disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity, or perception. Dissociative identity disorder can be characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states that take control of the persons behavior. Charlie started off as a happy, newlywed and normal guy. His wife Layla cheats on him and ends up leaving him with three children, none of which are his. This abandonment by his wife and her affair leaves Charlie to become emotionally damaged. After Layla left Charlie became a pushover and would let himself be verbally and physically abused by others. Even though he is a Rhode Island state police trooper everyone in the town still did not treat him with respect. …show more content…
Over the years, this continuous disrespect and abuse causes Charlies anger to build up. Once Charlie has had enough of this he suddenly develops a split personality named Hank. Hank is a rude and violent and deals with all the confrontations Charlie avoids. Charlie goes to see a psychiatrist who diagnoses him with "advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage." Charlies split personality mostly emerges when Charlie is under extreme stress. In Charlies case he exhibits disruptions in memory and identity. When Hank emerges, and does careless and reckless stuff, Charlies does not remember anything that happened. Charlie comes back to injuries and changes to his body and he doesn’t remember how or when he got them. Hank will get into fights and be rude to people, none of which Charlie remembers. Charlies disruption in his identity is seen when Hank takes over and controls his mind and body. Charlies second personality Hank, takes over and thinks he is helping Charlie throughout the