A Psychological view of Fight

feel trapped in the working class. Jack is very stressed out and has been suffering from

insomnia for 6 months. He is 30 years old and employed as a recall coordinator for a

major car company. Jack lives in a condo full of expensive furniture which he says,

“defines him as a person”. Even with all of the comforts of modern society that fill his

condo he is unhappy, unsatisfied and sleep deprived. He goes to his doctor for insomnia

and narcolepsy complaining that he wakes up and doesn’t remember how he got there

sometimes. He asks for drugs from his doctor but is denied. His doctor tells him if he

wants to see real pain to visit the testicular cancer support group at a local church.

When Jack attends this group he finds he can let go and cry even though he

doesn’t have testicular cancer. Jack says, “losing all hope equals freedom”. That night he

goes home and sleeps like a baby. Rather quickly Jack became addicted to support

groups. He attended groups for sufferers of brain parasites, blood parasites, tuberculosis,

cancer, sickle cell, and melanoma. Jack feels that if people thought you were dying they

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Jack experiences 7 out of the 18 symptoms I listed. Everyone thought Tyler was Tyler and just crazy a

little bit. When he left the support group

it was because he became addicted to fighting and then needed that.

Shortly after meeting Tyler, Jack returns home to find his condo containing all of

his comforts that “define him” destroyed in an explosion. He

created Tyler because Tyler was everything he wanted to be but wasn’t. Everyone wants to feel accepted and needed. He

needs these groups to sleep and be happy just like a drug. He is becoming more and more like Tyler.

As time passes Jack notices Tyler is not around as much as he used to be and Jack

is sleeping a lot more and now pushed out of the loop more often. Jack tells Tyler he is by far the most

interesting single serving friend he has ever met and Tyler understands what he means. He says he wakes up in places without knowing how he got there. Tyler makes soap for a

living and has the exact same brief case as Jack. He needs this furniture to define himself as a person.

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