What if he is right? It is a slippery slope. I would be hearing this stuff, and in a weird way, I would start to get paranoid. The guy across the street from us and tapping his foot, and putting his cigarette out at a certain place, that was him marking a territory. There were definitely times, and again anecdotally, they thought people were watching them. Though with schizophrenia, it is more auditory hallucinations, and not visual. That’s more paranoia, and another reason why people were misled to think Elliot was suffering from schizophrenia, that’s another sign of schizophrenia. That’s not very specific to dissociative identity disorder. ![]() I think it would be a combination of both. I felt I could represent that more authentically than other forms of opiates.Įlliot’s break from reality, and creating this unreliable narrator and seeing visions, or hallucinations, is that a by product of his mental illness? Or his drug use? Or is it a combination of both? I specifically picked morphine because I actually had personal experience with that, and I felt I knew that world – if you want to call it a world – really well. And that’s what a lot of people who have this deep depression, they try to manage that pain with painkillers, which is obviously what morphine is, or any of those popular opiates. Ultimately, what Elliot is doing is suppressing his pain. Was there a specific reason you chose morphine as Elliot’s drug? I remember just me personally, nothing as extreme as what Elliot has, when you become aware of that, when you become aware of that, when you start to realize that maybe you have these issues that are serious and unmanageable, what is that experience like? Throughout this first season, she helped me build those blocks, and corrected when I got things wrong or fantastical and helped me ground them. And there were certain things that haven’t been revealed to the audience yet that she helped me discover about this. reinforced the things that I did get right, and then there were things she pointed out that felt inaccurate. This all felt right to, and I don’t know if that is from my anecdotal … the people and friends I knew growing up. When you worked with the psychologist, what was the feedback like? Constructive? Or was she generally in agreement? I pulled anecdotally from that, but I also wanted to concretize it with more research by our psychologist. I did have friends who have suffered from schizophrenia and mild dissociative identity disorder, as well as more extreme cases of social anxiety disorder. Oh no, we also had a psychologist as a consultant on the show. With you suffering from social anxiety, did that constitute the research you underwent to form Elliot? And finding ways to hide it, which sometimes does include addiction and self medication. I found, because I actually suffered from social anxiety as well as compulsive disorder, that the biggest thing is hiding it. ![]() Mental illness is such a sensitive topic in general, but they tend to try and manage their emotional distress through either self medication, closing people off, or creating a persona to sort of hide it. Were you cognizant of this when you were creating Elliot? ![]() Popular Science: There have been studies that link people will mental illnesses to alcohol or drug abuse.
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