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The film A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2011) is a biography about the Life of John Nash a famous mathematician. John Nash is most known for his many contributions to mathematics, such as breaking Riemann’s most perplexing mathematical problem and became famous for what is known as the Nash Solution. Nash begins his career at Princeton where he is a very intelligent and well known mathematical graduate student. While at Princeton Nash begins to try and discover a revolutionary equation in math while battling off many different illusions. The first friend Nash encounters with is his roommate while at Princeton that soon later becomes his best friend. Then when he is promoted to a math professor at a different college, he then begins to think that he is working with the government helping them to break soviet codes. Later on in the movie many of these different people and situations appear to be all an illusion in John Nash mind. Nash has trouble distinguishing between illusions and what is actually going on. So after watching the film A Beautiful mind I have came to the conclusion that John Nash displays symptoms of Schizophrenia, more specifically paranoid schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a challenging disorder that makes it difficult to distinguish between what is real and unreal, think clear, manage emotions, relate to others and function normally.(Smith,2004,pg1.) It is stated that most cases of schizophrenia is seen later on in your teen years or early adulthood years. Schizophrenias have troubles with distinguishing between reality and illusions. They see things of non existence and speak in strange and hard to understand ways and normally feel that everyone is out to get them or to harm them. Schizophrenia is a disorder that can ...

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...overnment more often and he was not able to distinguish between what was real and what he was seeing. John later gets placed in a hospital to get help. John gets help and then begins to learn how to control his delusions and block out his daemons.
Through the entire move John displays many different delusions and hallucinations. All which he believes to be real yet he is the only one that sees these things and knows that these things are going on. When speaking to others John tends to stutter and suffer with disorganized speech. Nash used very proper terms when talking a usually related everything to a math problem. He rarely showed emotions when interacting with others. These are all symptoms and signs that were displayed over the years. This proves that suffering with all of these signs over a period of time shows that Jon suffers with paranoid schizophrenia.

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