Signs Of Schizophrenia In A Beautiful Mind: Schizophrenia

The evidence of the cognitive symptoms, as with any disease, is more difficult to see externally in a person suffering from Schizophrenia. John Nash was not a very social person and I believe that this is attributed to the inability of expressing thoughts and feelings caused by the disease. His office in the movie looks somewhat like what I imagined the inside of his mind to look like; cluttered. Pictures on top of articles, on top of more pictures. There were papers hanging from the ceiling and string connecting pictures while forming patterns. One pattern I saw repeated a few times throughout the film was a spider- web image. This to me just shows how everything in his mind seemed as though it was connected in some way.

A Beautiful Mind is an inspiring story about triumph over schizophrenia, among the most devastating and disabling of all mental disorders. A Beautiful Mind succeeds in realistically describing the disturbed thinking, emotion, perception, and behavior that characterizes the disorder, and shows the difficult task of management of and/or recovery from the disorder. The movie communicates the vital importance of the factors that contributed to Nash's recovery and achievement of his amazing potential as a gifted intellectual. For instance, Nash was treated with dignity and respect by most of his academic peers. Social support and tolerance enabled him to regain his capacity for productive work that led to his receipt of the Nobel Prize for

In the film " A Beautiful Mind" John Nash experiences a few different positive symptoms. The first of these positive symptoms are seen through the hallucinations John has of having a room -mate while at Princeton. This room- mate continues to stay "in contact" with John through out his adult life and later this room- mate's niece enters Johns mind as another coinciding hallucination. Nash's other hallucination is Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that seeks out Nash's intelligence in the field of code- breaking.

Know I am going to compare what I believe the process of the schizophrenia with John Nash is during the process of this movie. A Beautiful Mind is an inspiring story about triumph over schizophrenia, among the most devastating and disabling of all mental disorders. A Beautiful Mind succeeds in realistically describing the disturbed thinking, emotion, perception, and behavior

A beautiful mind, a film based on a true story of a famous mathematician by the name of John Nash. John goes on to win the Noble-Prize for some of his published mathematical work which he conducted at Princeton University. Unfortunately, John suffered from a psychological disorder which interfered with his personal life, work, and generally every aspect of his life. The psychological disorder which John suffers from is schizophrenia. Although the etiology of schizophrenia is still unknown, it has become a much more treatable and manageable disorder, but still no cure.

A Beautiful Mind illustrates many of the topics relating to psychological disorders. The main character of the film, John Nash, is a brilliant mathematician who suffers from symptoms of Schizophrenia. His symptoms include paranoid delusions, grandiosity, and disturbed perceptions. The disease disrupts his social relationships, his studies, and his work. The more stressful his life becomes the more his mind is not able to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by a host of unpleasant symptoms. Among the symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, amnesia, slow thinking and processing of information, and a false sense of superiority. Patients with schizophrenia often display aggressive, compulsive, hyperactive, and disoriented behavior. When they speak, their words may be scrambled and difficult to comprehend. People with schizophrenia may also experience hallucinations which can often lead to paranoid and irrational thoughts. For example, these hallucinations often come in the form of auditory stimulus that they hear but does not actually exist in reality. Schizophrenia has also been linked with a decline in pleasure, called anhedonia. Not many studies have been conducted that involve the link between schizophrenia and the capacity to experience pleasure, although anhedonia has often been reported as one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Other negative symptoms include an inability to perform everyday tasks and a lack of movement in the face when the person attempts to speak. Positive symptoms include the ailments that separate people with schizophrenia and healthy people such as hallucinations and delusions. Despite these ailments, people with schizophrenia can lead a normal life in society, but many need help from others and medications. Treatments for schizophrenia include antipsychotic medications such as chlorpromazine and fluphenazine as well as atypical

In the United States, in 2012, approximately 1% or 2.4 million people were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder in which symptoms usually develop in men in their late teens or early twenties, and women in their early twenties and thirties (Anderson, 2014). It is a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by a noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by a disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought, perception, and behavior (p. 580). Clinicians classify schizophrenia as positive, negative, or cognitive. Positive symptoms include hallucinations, which may include auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, or tactile hallucinations. Delusions or false beliefs are also positive symptoms, as is disorganized thinking and movement disorders. Negative symptoms include flat affect, ahedonia, or apathy. Cognitive symptoms include a decreased ability to understand information, and using that information to make decisions (Herzog & Varcarolis, 2011). Men with schizophrenia do not outwardly express their emotions, when compared to women with schizophrenia. This can result in a decrease of self-value, social interaction, and life satisfaction. Understanding ones emotions can create a healthier lifestyle, with a more functional outcome (Mote, Stuart, & Kring, 2014).

If all I knew about schizophrenia was based off of the clips I saw on the movie "A Beautiful Mind" then I would not have an accurate picture of the illness. The main reason being is that not every schizophrenic experiences the same delusions and or hallucinations. If I went around judging schizophrenics based on what I saw in a few movie clips then psychology would not be the correct major for me. For example, I would be ignorant to think that every schizophrenic has visual hallucinations that are trying to harm his or her loved ones (as demonstrated in the movie). When in acuality, according to our book, auditory hallucinations are the most common globally.

I found that the accuracy of schizophrenia portrayed in A Beautiful Mind was very consistent. Schizophrenia has many levels of hallucinations and delusions, but The movie portrayed each level in a unique way that described schizophrenia to a tee. There are many other types of schizophrenia, but A Beautiful Mind has an accurate representation of paranoid schizophrenia. The consistency that related the two included the types of hallucinations, delusions, and negative symptoms. Each of these played off of each other granted not every person which schizophrenia has visual, auditory, and tactile. I feel that it is very possible that that all of these symptoms included in the movie were consistent. A Beautiful Mind the movie was written off of a

In regards to symptoms, ‘A Beautiful Mind’ conveys a rather accurate portrayal, with Nash successfully displaying 2 or more of the necessary dysfunctions, needed to successfully be diagnosed with Schizophrenia.

“A Beautiful mind” is a story based on the life of John Forbes Nash, who is a famous mathematician. Unfortunately, he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia that majorly affects his personal and social life. Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder in which the patient’s ability to function is impaired by severely distorted beliefs, perceptions, and thought processes (Hockenbury, 2010).

The movie Beautiful Mind is about Dr. John Nash who is a mathematical genius and a natural code breaker, at least in his own mind. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia which is a psychological disorder. According to Baird (2011), paranoid schizophrenia is when a person has “delusions of grandeur and persecution often accompanied by hallucinations” (p. 273). The person has a split from real life circumstances, where their new reality becomes actual fact to them.

Maintaining accuracy while producing a biographical film is a difficult undertaking. It requires complex research and genuine understanding of the person in order to accurately represent them on screen. In 2001, film makers attempted to translate to screen the life of John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (Gazer & Howard). John Nash, who is a notable figure in the world of academia and mathematics, won the Nobel Prize in economics for his game theory (Nash, 1994). Nash is also widely known for his long-term struggle with mental illness and was diagnosed with schizophrenia during his mid-thirties (Samels & MacLowry, 2002). In order to examine the accuracy of this portrayal it is necessary to examine the aspects of schizophrenia displayed in the film such as the mannerisms, signs and symptoms, and forms of treatment; while comparing them to the actual realities of this disorder.

The experience that John Nash had in the movie could be analyzed and explained by several theories about Schizophrenia. In the movie, John was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Various behaviors of John accord with the symptoms of this disorder, including delusion and hallucinations. For example, John saw several people who