Crazy!Tony time.

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

Since I've been back-tracking in Marvel Iron Man/Avengers comics, I've come to a conclusion: Tony is completely fucking crazy!

Also, since I have a thing for the crazies, I'm writing a fic, and I would like your opinion.

To me it appears Tony has some kind of dissociative order.  For the purpose of the fic, I'm using a combination of MDD/Schizo/PTSD/Depression. Yes, I've very mean to Tony.

My questiion to you is, if Tony had other personalities, who do you think they would be?  What would they be like?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Camel.

Comments

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the information. Could a personality disorder or the traits, as it were, have a sudden and massive increase due to trauma or extreme emotional distress?

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[autumn-lily.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. But I do see Tony as having manic symptoms sometimes. If anything he'd be a Type II Bipolar. Also, he could develop a type of dissociative disorder what with his leanings towards escapism. As far as a personality disorder, his symptoms would have been more noticeable to others over the years and would have caused more impediments to functionality this late in his life. (I know it's comics, but Tony seems to be pretty much in his perpetual 30's).

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[autumn-lily.livejournal.com]

True about the personality traits. Also, love your icon.

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

I'll be looking up Type II, but I hadn't really thought about bipolar disorder, or manic-depression. It just didn't seem to fit in my head, but thanks for the query.

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the information. Personally, I have AS and an anxiety disorder, so I get where you're coming from. The thing with the schizophrenia is just a plot device that I would explain to you, but it would give away a lot of the fic, and yes, it's essentially just for the auditory/visual hallucinations.

Thank you again, this help out a lot. I've been doing a lot into the disorders, but sometimes it's hard for me to grasp concepts without getting different views of them, so this help a lot. Thank you.

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[autumn-lily.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I could help.

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[autumn-lily.livejournal.com]

I myself have Bipolar I type disorder as well as a borderline personality disorder. Also, very social phobic, I never really leave my house unless I have to for work / school. I'm studying to be a forensic psychologist.

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[autumn-lily.livejournal.com]

Yes. But usually it's gradual, takes years. And the person who has the disorder never thinks there is anything wrong with how they're behaving / thinking. Either they are sent in for treatment on the recommendations of other people, or they came in for something different (like to get medicine because they can't sleep at night) and then the doctor or whoever notices their odd behavior.

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

Would you mind checking over the fic as I went along and give me notes on his behavior and such?

Re: Please don't take it as mean!

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

It's not really as blatant in the fic as I've made it seem. It's really more of a gradual explaination than a HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED IN A MINI-ESSAY MID-FIC kind of thing.