I am Ironman!

Same with the other superheroes as well, He has experience PTSD that changed his life and make him Ironman (Ironman, 2008). The incident that happened in Afghanistan, he was attacked by terrorists, which ironically was using his own weapon. That incident make him stop producing weapon and become Ironman. In Ironman 2 (2010) there are some incident as well such as the car accident in Grand Prix and the Whipslash. It must have left him some traumatic issue. And also his arc reactor that was poisonous to himself that make him stress, causing him to go drunk during his birthday party.

But the worst event that really change his psychology was during the alien invasion in New York, in The Avengers (2012). In Ironman 3 (2013) we can see that he kept having a nightmare, insomnia, paranoid, keeping him to work on his ironman suits. When someone mention about the incident, he suffer some symptoms like flashback to the particular event, and having short-term breath.

But despite of his PTSD, in the Ironman 3 (2013), i think that it really shows the real identity of Tony Starks, where he is the real mind of the Ironman. It shows how he could use some tools that he bought from the market and modify it as a weapon, and went to Mandarin's lair without his armour.

As a superhero, he also has a narcissism problem too. Unlike the other superheroes that hide their true identity, but Tony Stark did not have any problem to mention he is Ironman (Ironman, 2007) and in the Ironman 3 (2013) he mentioned  his address to Mandarin, causing his house burnt down by Mandarin.

Bibliography
http://www.underthemaskonline.com/?p=352
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-heroes-and-villains/201305/does-iron-man-3s-hero-suffer-posttraumatic-stress-disorder
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-heroes-and-villains/201305/clinical-perspective-panic-and-ptsd-in-iron-man-3

Ironman. 2008. film. Directed by Jon Favreau. USA: Paramount Pictures.

Ironman 2. 20010. film. Directed by Jon Favreau. USA: Paramount Pictures.

Ironman 3. 2013. film. Directed by Shane Black. USA: Paramount Pictures.