The Joker (Arthur Fleck in the 2019 film) experienced severe childhood trauma including physical and psychological abuse, severe neglect, malnutrition, and a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from being beaten as a child, all compounded by a chaotic household and a mother who lived in a distorted reality, leading to his deep confusion, identity issues, and uncontrollable laughter (pseudobulbar affect).
Arthur was brought up by a foster mother and did not have a father figure. The foster mother herself describes him growing up as a fun and kind boy, but later he was abused and beaten by his adoptive parents and even had a severe head injury.
However, Arthur didn't have anything even resembling a normal childhood, and he had no mentorship for these kinds of basic self-regulation skills. His mother was neglectful and his “father figures” were severely abusive to him.
Anorexia Nervosa – Highest Mortality Rate of Any Mental Disorder: Why? While all eating disorders are dangerous mental health conditions, anorexia nervosa (AN) has the unfortunate distinction of being the deadliest eating disorder—and, by some accounts, the deadliest psychiatric disorder.
Borderline personality disorder usually begins by early adulthood. The condition is most serious in young adulthood. Mood swings, anger and impulsiveness often get better with age. But the main issues of self-image and fear of being abandoned, as well as relationship issues, go on.
Despite both characters being hyped up as super crazy, neither is usually portrayed as all that crazy. They're both pretty aware of the world around them and their own actions. That being said The Joker is usually calculating and willfully malevolent, where Harley acts out of a genuinely twisted understanding of love.
Arthur's childhood is linked with amnesia; he learns of the childhood abuse against him only after receiving the hospital documents about his mother. The film tells us that both Arthur, as a child, and his mother, Penny, are victims of domestic violence.
Nightwing wakes up and finds he has been tied to a bed. Harley shows him a pile of rejection letters and that her criminal past prevents her from getting rehired as a psychiatrist. Eventually, the two sleep together.
Also, the Joker is probably not diagnosable anyway. He said the Joker doesn't fall into the criteria for diagnoses like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. He is more likely to be a psychopath, but even that is reductive.
The Joker being an ENTP personality type, he possesses certain personality traits that align with this classification. One of the key traits for ENTPs is their dominant Extraverted Intuiting (Ne), which is one of the eight cognitive functions that individuals use to take in information.
In the first Joker movie, Arthur was abandoned by his father. Then he was brutally abused by his mother's boyfriend, the only man from whom he could learn a version of masculinity.
“We talked a lot about who would Arthur be and why is he like this — what is his thing, and where does that laugh really come from?” says the director. “Joker is a narcissist, but he's an egoless narcissist in our mind.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that happen between birth and the age of 17. ACEs can cause childhood trauma that lingers long after the event occurred. ACEs can take a toll on your body and mind.
Joker Jr. was born after The Joker, who had manipulated Harley Quinn into re-entering a life of crime, impregnated her without her knowing. Harley out of shame refused to accept the child and gave him up. He grew up being transferred from various orphanages and foster homes to people who never loved him.
In BTAS, they honestly look to be around the same age, maybe with Joker a few years older. However, in the movie Joker (2019), Bruce is shown to be decades younger than Arthur Fleck, around 2 decades at the very least.
Since the release of the movie Joker, it seems almost as much attention has been paid to actor Joaquin Phoenix's dramatic weight loss as to his performance as the character Arthur Fleck. Director Todd Phillips considered the character's body size as one way to represent his vulnerability.
Harley Quinn is bisexual and has been in a relationship with The Joker, and, more recently, in a non-monogamous relationship with Poison Ivy. Other characters have been portrayed as bisexual in Batman media adaptations. Gotham's Barbara Kean and Tabitha Galavan are also confirmed to be bisexual.
Emperor Joker was a form The Joker took after tricking Mister Mxyzptlk into donating 99.99% of his reality powers to him. As a direct result, he became near-omnipotent and created a hellish world in his own image.
According to the most recently available data, the best-selling American single-issue comic of all time was X-Men #1, which was published in 1991 and has since sold almost 8.2 million copies.
Over time, many people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) overcome their symptoms and recover. Additional treatment is recommended for people whose symptoms return. Treatment for BPD may involve individual or group psychotherapy, carried out by professionals within a community mental health team (CMHT).