Case Study: Homelander

Question: How are Personality Disorders formed?

Case of Homelander:

• was raised as a lab subject
• experienced tests as a lab rat 24/7
• No child should have ever been treated like this
• no stability nor a healthy family at all, raising up
• scientists treated him like an absolute lab rat
• No One was Brave Enough to realize and see that Homelander was being tortured so that he could be the greatest superhero to exist.

What happens as a result?

Due to extreme trauma and a lack of a healthy family growing up. Even in present show, everyone is so scared of him that he can't even have any other family asides from Ryan. He was manipulated using the world's best psychologists to force John to have a mental weakess which was to make him have a human need for love, validation, approval, and attention.

Thus, he has developed probably Narcisstic Personality Disorder which sometimes shows up when talking to that disorder in the show. This Disorder calls him weak and tells him he needs to disregard his human needs to be a God. In order for him to be psychologically treated, he needs an anoymous therapist who can help digitally.

It is natural and realistic for this to happen considering that the scientists constantly bombarded with the fact that he NEEDS to be seen as the most powerful superhero ever. He NEEDS to be seen as a GOD. Unfortunately, he is emotionally immature or weak with how he grew up. The reason he is emotionally immature was because the scientists severely messed up with his emotional development. He was never supposed to develop like this, he was supposed to be a normal child with a loving family. Thus, his NPD brain tells him that he constantly needs to be a God. He can't be human despite wishing and constantly grieving over his childhood on desiring a loving family who would accept him.