A Beautiful Mind Analysis

Schizophrenia, a chronic and disabling brain disorder, people with this disease will hear voice that other people don’t hear. People with this illness will always think that others can read their mind and always plotting to harm them. Moreover, people with the illness are more likely to suffer symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders and movement disorders. They will also develop sign like ‘ lose touch ‘ with reality. It is commonly known as an incurable disease as the causes are unknown. Therefore, treatments are focus on eliminating the symptoms of the disease. It includes antipsychotic medications and various psychosocial treatments.
The movie I watched is ‘A beautiful mind’ that filmed by Ron Howardloosely and led by Russsel …show more content…
Psychosis patient needs to have courage to overcome the upcoming barriers at the path that coping with schizophrenia. For instance, John Nash needs to be facing others perspective when he was back to his job. In the movie, due to effect of schizophrenia, John Nash could not walk as a normal as before. Because of that, he became the teasing subject in school by the students. Additionally, they need to be brave enough to face with the drastically change in their life due to the disorder. Before diagnosed with schizophrenia, he was an elite mathematician that lecturing in a top university. He got his title of professor during his 30s and married his student in MIT, having a successful and lovely live. However, after diagnosed with disease, he was forced to hospitalized and receive a list of frail treatments and medications. He lost his ability to work and become unable to cope with his normal lifestyle. Hence, to continue with their life, they need a strong …show more content…
If a person is living alone and developing schizophrenia, they can hardly find that they are sick until it becomes too late. They have lost the ability to differentiate reality and illusion after all, hence, without mentioning by others, they may never know that they are suffering with disease. As an example, John Nash started to have an imaginary roommate Charles when he was enrolled to Princeton however the onsets were found by his wife, Alicia after she married with John. Also, people with schizophrenia are normally reluctant to treatments as they always think that there is conspiracy in it and it is going to harm them. Therefore, presence of family can help to convince them as well as calm them down. When john was admitted to the hospital, he refused to cooperate with the doctor as he thought that they were trying to harm him. John decided to receive treatment by Dr Rosen only after Alicia revealed that he is actually sick and all the code deciphering works are actually his delusions. In addition, People with schizophrenia normally lost the ability to cope with routine life as well as work. Because of the unpredictable nature of schizophrenia and the difficulty those who live with the condition have in distinguishing reality from hallucinations or other delusions, many jobs can be dangerous ought to different level of stress level they have. In the movie, john nash