The Perks of Being a Wallflower question

I suffer from panic attacks and general anxiety and I can relate to Charlie in so many ways! But I'd just like to say that those mental issues aren't making your life bad. It's just something you have to learn to live with, and my life is wonderful!

Each and every one of them. I'm kidding, he's just troubled. But like, really, troubled. The thing about this book is that it goes beyond the 'everyone is a bit of a creep' thing and makes every character cross the border to crazyville a little. And it just doesn't add up that everyone in the book was molested as a child. It's just not estatistically believable.

Post traumatic stress disorder... I don't think he has mental issues at all... And like what the others have said, he's really a natural introvert and socially awkward. He's a wallflower.

As others have said PTSD, however he is also just an introvert naturally. No trauma is necessary for that one, some of us just like to watch the world from the sidelines.

He definitely has PTSD about the sexual abuse, likely accompanied by depression.

Aside from that, I was thinking PDD-NOS. It's a little like autism/aspergers, but without all the criteria. But PTSD alone could cause a load of trouble.

I think he is schizophrenic. In the story, he ends up being a paranoid that things got worse because of him. He blamed himself all through out. Which started from Aunt Helen's death.

I would say high anxiety and post-traumatic stress. At some points in the novel, I thought he might be suffering from schizophrenia. I am not ruling out that out as a possibility, but I don't think we were given enough information to determine that.

How many of you are psychiatrists?

After looking over the criteria for both Asperger's and PTSD, he has some features of both, however there is not enough evidences to rule in either diagnosis.

I agree with Suge above. The first thing I thought of was some sort of dissociative disorder from post-trauma. He isn't autistic, just disconnected, which is typical after abuse - as a defense mechanism for the conscious mind.

Can anyone pull up evidence from the book of him being sexually abused by his aunt please?

He has nothing, unless you count social anxiety.

the kind that comes from rape