Elliot suffers from which condition?

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In Mr. Robot the main character, Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) suffers from a condition such that he forgets like whole days, and not even one day, like 3 days straight.
What is this condition called?



Best Answer

He suffers from [at least] 'dissociative identity disorder', what used to be called 'multiple personality disorder'. Probably also social anxiety disorder, if not also somewhere on the Autism spectrum, though this as far as I'm aware has never been officially stated. There is also an element of addiction and self-medication [morphine/opiates and suboxone].

I don't want to tell you any more, because if you haven't yet seen the end of season 1, it will ruin the end for you.

If you have already seen at least the first three seasons, there's a great explanation in a transcript of an interview with Sam Esmail, at NPR.org - 'Mr. Robot' Creator Says His Own Anxiety And Hacking Helped Inspire The Show
I would advise you not to read this if you aren't at least up to the end of season 3.
Also, from Popular Science - ‘Mr. Robot’ Creator Explains What’s Really Going On In Elliot’s Mind - again, don't read before at least season 3, though this is less spoilery than the previous link.




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Does Elliot have autism Mr. Robot?

He not is not autistic, nor is he schizophrenic, and he does not have hallucinations. A discussion of each of Elliot's illnesses is in his article.

Does Elliot have amnesia?

Going beyond the hallucinations, he has essentially forgotten a significant period of his past, so he has retrograde amnesia. He's essentially seeing things from his past represented in other ways, so if I had to create a story for this, it would be that he has a severe dissociative disorder.

Does Elliot Mr. Robot have did?

Towards the end of Season 1, we discovered that Mr. Robot wasn't real; he was a personality Elliot constructed based on his own father, Edward Alderson. Elliot had (and has) Dissociative Identity Disorder, meaning that like Elliot, it was tough for us to trust what we were seeing in the show at any point.



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