Timothy Treadwell: Clinically Insane

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Many people visit parks to see the animals. They will encounter numerous animals snakes, birds, insects, and occasionally a bear. Many people would run away to safety not try to talk or touch them. Timothy Treadwell is a person who on numerous occasions touched the bears and even played with the bear cubs. He was a bear enthusiast who wanted to protect them. He was filming a documentary where he displayed personality disorders, depression, and Attention Deficit Disorder. He has displayed that he has a disorder and is clinically insane.

Treadwell was killed by a grizzly bear in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska at age 46 along with his girlfriend. Treadwell has gone on numerous trips to this location. He was filming a documentary where he filmed himself ranting about the park system and how he is just trying to help the Grizzly Bears. His love for animals came from a near death overdose on heroin.

Treadwell believed that he was part of the Grizzly Bear community. He believed that he was on the same level of hierarchy as the bears. This is proven by how he interacted with the animals. He would talk to them, play with the cubs, and also scolded them when they did something bad (Grizzly Man). He wouldn’t hesitate when he approached the bears and he called them all by name. He even had foxes come up to his camp site. He yelled at one of them when it stole his hat and he even chased after it and scolded it. Also on an interview with David Letterman he said that “it was important that the bears know that he fits on their hierarchy.”

He also dismissed the possibility of death in the interview. Letterman asked if it was possible that we would read of his death and he laughed it up and said no. He thought since the bear...

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...pared for all of his adventures, was ranting to a camera repeating himself, and even brought his girlfriend who was unprepared for her trip. All of this proves that he was not sane. Treadwell was in fact mentally unstable and if was tested would have been Clinically insane.

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Grizzly Man. Dir. Werner Herzog. Perf. Timothy Treadwell. Lion Gate Films, 2005.

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