K- PAX

Mental disorders are huge impacts in people lives. In the movie K – Pax, Robert who was also known as prot throughout the movie had a mental disorder due to traumatic events in his life. The events caused prot to have multiple different personalities and caused him to react to certain situations differently. One disorder prot can be diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, (DID). DID is an effect of severe trauma during early childhood, usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. This mental disorder causes suicidal tendencies, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, and eating disorders
In the movie, Robert Porter or Prot had many moments where examples of this disorder were shown. In the beginning of the movie he spoke on how he lost his father at a young age, which is a traumatic moment for any child because losing a parent isn’t easy. This specific event causes stress on any person. Dissociative Identity Disorder was also shown in the movie when Prot would only eat fruit and when he did he ate everything, including the peel. This event showed that he as in Robert had an eating disorder. When Robert was under hypnosis he had flashbacks as Dr. Powell asked him questions that led up to the reason he acted the way he did when he was taken around others. When Robert was taken around a family, there was a moment where he had a flashback as the little girl ran through the sprinklers and tried to stop her. This moment brought back the moment when he got off work and went home to find his wife and daughter dead after finding out they’ve both been raped. When Robert seen the man that did these things to his family he snapped his neck and went to hold his daughter. The sprinkler memory came from when he went outside after this had taken place and kneeled on the ground crying over the sprinkler. This moment caused a lot of stress on Robert and caused him to attempt suicide.
All the moments that had taken place in Roberts’s life caused him to think