Psychological Disorders In Pi Patel's Life Of Pi

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All over popular culture are fictional villains vying for total world domination. They can try all they want but there is only one thing in the world that can have complete control over humanity. The Brain controls all aspects of humanity from keeping people alive to choosing what it wants for lunch. The problem with the brains dictatorship over mankind is the brain can be damaged like any other organ. Trauma can cause all kinds of problems for the poor soul that it affects. The Psychological diseases and disorders can cause major or minor problems that change the whole chemical structure of the brain. These psychological diseases that are caused by trauma affect many people including PI Patel in Yann Martel’s fictional novel Life of Pi. Life …show more content…

Like Schizophrenia, DID can be treated which would remove the visible effects in the present time( with the “author”). Pi Patel shows signs during the time on the boat where Pi exhibits multiple personalities, one as himself( Animal story) and one as Richard Parker(Human story). According to the Journal of Childhood Abuse, DID causes “the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of an individual’s behavior”(Maya Reed-Gavish, Dissociation in Abuse Victims). Pi Patel demonstrates this fact in multiple different situations. At the end of the book when Pi is being interviewed by the Japanese men he demonstrates his two personalities in the different versions of the story. With Pi alone on the boat(Besides his animal hallucinations) he has another personality who lives the “human story”. In Pi’s first personality he acts as the other version of himself: Richard Parker. Pi claims that “I found myself kicking in the water in the Pacific ocean. I swam for the lifeboat… I wouldn't have made it if the cook hadn’t thrown me a lifebuoy and pulled me in”(Martel 303). In Pi’s other personality, the as himself as an oceanic tiger tamer he claims “He [Richard Parker] was to far. But the sight of the life buoy gave him hope. He revived and started beating the water with vigorous, desperate strokes”(Martel 98). Both of the Japanese Men notice the similarities between the story and possibly helped Pi find a therapist after the end of the story. Pi’s multiple personality have some side effects that, in his delusion, Pi is able to notice. One of the Major side effects of DID is to have a blackout where the victim “...[has] amnesia, or "lose time," for periods when another personality is "out."”(Minddisorders.com). Pi Patel experiences these Blackouts and even

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