Beautiful Mind: Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

I recently watched “Beautiful mind” a movie directed by Ron Howard and starting Russell Crowe as John Nash. It is a biographical picture about a Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economics who suffers from schizophrenia. What is interesting in this movie is the fact that it illustrating mental illness from the patient’s perspective. In this paper, I would like to discuss some main symptoms of schizophrenia what Nash had.
According to National Institute of Mental Health: “Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and acts. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, it can be very disabling. Approximately 7 or 8 individuals out of 1,000 will have schizophrenia in their lifetime”
Positive symptoms- are psychotic behaviors not generally seen in healthy people, it can be:
• Delusions - false beliefs strongly held despite invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness:
• Hallucinations - Hallucinations can take several different forms - they can be: visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory experiences
The main character, Nash experienced severe delusions and hallucinations which were then diagnosed as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. At half way through the movie, we discover that half of the places and situations that occur are only illusions within his mind. One of the first imaginary characters that Nash develops in his mind is his roommate Charles Herman, a student of English Literature. Nash also believed that he was doing top-secret government work that could save the United States and that Russians were following him.
• Disorganized speech (frequent derailment or incoherence)
• Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior (An abnormal condition variously characterized by stupor/inactivity, mania, and either rigidity or extreme flexibility of the limbs).
2. Negative symptoms- are associated with disruptions to normal emotions and behaviors,
He receives 10 weeks of Insulin shock therapy. Later, doctor prescribed antipsychotic medications, but he stops taking the medication, and his hallucinations come back again. When he realizes that one of his hallucinations is not getting older, is the moment, when he understands that some pictures are only in his brain and that he needs help. Then he is going back to the hospital again and signs permission papers to stay and have therapy. His hallucinations are coming back but he learns how to ignore them. Regardless of the serious sickness he came up with the game theory and received a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic