A Beautiful Mind Schizophrenia

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The film “A Beautiful Mind” is about John Nash, a scientist who won a Nobel Prize Award despite his complication in the mind which is schizophrenia. John Nash, is an extremely intelligent person. During his days at college, he spends most of his time making mathematical equations and theories involving everything from pigeon movements to probabilities of getting girlfriends. His amazing work allows him placement for any job in the world. However, John is suffering from schizophrenia. This is manifested by his severe hallucinations, delusions and sometimes disorganized speech or thinking. For example, he has a couple of imaginary friends whom he constantly talks. In every situation, he thinks like this person is so real that he gives him order like helping him decode or doing some errands for him. This imaginary friend, he develops a very close relationship with. He considers him his confidant. There is also another imaginary person, he calls William. William works in the government. John, in his delusion, thought that he is working for him. William gives him orders like cracking military codes to find bombs because the setting of this story is during the Cold War. He thought he is tasked to be a spy of the American government to interpret the Russian codes. This clearly shows John Nash’s delusion of having a relationship with the unknown. Nash experienced …show more content…

His first imaginary friend comes out when he needs a good friend to talk to. Then, he has a delusion that he has his very good friend tagging along with him. On the other hand, when Nash has a problem with unemployment, William’s character surfaces in his delusion. When he has trouble taking care of his born baby, an imaginary child who keeps on bugging him to listen to the other personalities he imagines. When he also deliberately does not take his medication, his symptoms appear. These factors influence and cause his emotional

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