John Nash Schizophrenia

John Nash character fits the criteria for being diagnosed as having schizophrenia because of the symptoms he showed in his behavior and personality. These symptoms included the disturbed perception he had in his thoughts, his environment and the people around him. He showed some inappropriate emotion towards his perception like his imaginary friend Charles he felt like Charles betrayed him when he was taking to the psychiatry hospital. His speech was also disorganized he did not how to reply questions or give a speech in organized manner. His thought was not logic he thought in a unorganized manner. The three negatives symptoms of schizophrenia John appeared to have are reduced social interaction he could not talk to anybody about what he was going through. He once described himself in the movie as a ‘’Lone wolf’’ he came to the conclusion that people did not like him this was why he was anti-social. He also showed the Alogia symptom he spoke less most of the time while interacting with people this was shown in the movie when his wife

He accepted that the imagery people were not real and it was all made in his head. He decided to stop responding to this imagery people. Towards the end of the film when the man came to tell him about the noble price nomination he asked one of his student if she could see the man. The student confirmed the man was real that was when he decided to talk to the man and assured him he was not going to do anything to embarrass himself or the man. In my own opinion I believe that the movie portrayed schizophrenia accurately it showed both the positive and negative sides of the disease in the movie. I believe it aids mental health awareness because sometimes the society ignores these kind of things when it comes to talking about diseases like this even if the symptoms are looking at us straight in the