John Nash's Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia In A Beautiful Mind

The movie, A Beautiful Mind follows a brilliant mathematician, John Nash’s progression of his physchiatric condition schizophrenia. John‘s symptoms first started to appear during his time as a graduate student of Princeton as he struggled with intense stress while trying to formulate an orginal idea for publishing. After accepting a position with MIT, John’s delusions and hallucinations become progressinly worse over time, and he believed to have been recreuited by the Department of Defense to break codes wthat would disclose the location of a bomb. The symptoms increasingly worsened, and began to disrupt the relationships with his wife and friends. Eventually, his wife, Alicia had him committed where he is was diagnosed, and stabilized.
According to the DSM-5, the criteria for Schitzophrenia 295.90 is “the presence of two or more of the following, each present for a 1-month period. At least one of these must be Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech” (MENTAL HEAlth) The other symptoms that are included are, “grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms” (MENTAL ). The DSM further states that there is a disturbance or an impairment in the level of functioning in one or more areas such as social or occupational, these changes last at least 6 months. The disturbances must not linked to any other medical condition, or imapriements from drugs or other substances. (MENTAL). The separate criteria for paranoid schitzophrenia also includes “ Preoccupation with one or more persecutory delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations and None of the following is prominent: disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, or flat or inappropriate affect”
His earliest hallucination is the creation of his college roommate, Charles, when he was in fact living alone during his graduate studies. Other Hallucinations included Parcher, who he believed was in charge of the mission he was assigned, and Charles’s niece. This little girl eventually helped him to realized that the hallucinations were not real, by discovering her lack of aging. From the beginning of the film, he exhibits a lack of social skills such as asking women to bluntly have intercourse with him. His difficulty with interpersonal relationships is apparent while dating his current wife, among his college friends, and with his students. As his symptoms worsen, his appearance becomes noticiably dishelved and his speech often becomes pressurized. This is promiment when he is trying to explain to Alicia that she must leave for safety when he believes people are after him. Paranoia drives his symptoms further; increasing hallucinations and agitation. He often experiences the hard symopom of ideas of reference while looking at the newspapers and magazines.(REFERENCE) He interprets the content inside these articles as a code made ofr him to break. During stress, he is noted to have a repetaive movement of touching his forehead and avoidance of eye contact. Stress can trigger the symptoms to begin to