Need to diagnosis "patient" with psychological disorder?!


Question: Need to diagnosis "patient" with psychological disorder.?
For my project I need to identify what sort of psychological disorder(s) that this character (the Underground Man from Notes From the Underground) might have. If you have not read this book this character goes through periods of low and high confidence, cannot interact with people, he is hypercritical, and a bit of a nihilist. Health Question & Answer


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It sounds a bit like bipolar affective disorder to me.Health Question & Answer

About the nature of Underground Man's ailment there has been and continues to be much discussion. That, after all, is the major focus of the story. And one can enter it almost anywhere to seize upon significant elements. So let me here offer an overall diagnosis, in a series of observations (starting with the most general).

Underground Man is radically dissatisfied with the conditions of life itself. There is no one particular element which he defines as the principal cause. True, he says repeatedly (at the beginning) that the heart of the problem is consciousness, "excessive consciousness is a disease

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