Oscar winning film, A Beautiful Mind, based off the biography novel by Sylvia Nasar, portrays Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr., an acclaimed mathematic genius who suffered with a very debilitating mental illness. It depicts his struggles in life as he tried navigating his work, family life, and his own mental health. John Nash was a visionary man with an extraordinary mind. He saw things in such different ways that most people couldn 't see, however these same visions were also the ones that essentially haunted him, thus ruining any chances at a normal life. At age 30, he was attending graduate school at Princeton University, and he was working at MIT. He began to experience some strange psychological symptoms that ultimately led to him being diagnosed
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People like John Nash who suffered with the illness would have hallucinations and delusions called persecution delusions and grandiosity delusions, which involve the patient feeling as if they are being conspired against or spied on constantly. They, like Nash, truly believe that anyone who doesn 't agree with their thoughts are a part of the conspiracy against them, and out to get them. This causes patients to become agitated and possibly violent and hostile. According the Nolen-Hoeksema: "They may be lucid and articulate, relating elaborate stories of plots against them" (Nolen-Hoeksema 2014). Nash was reported as being angry and hostile with his wife and child at times, and in public. He would comment that everyone worked for a Russian government agency and were out to get him. He even believed that people who walked around wearing red ties were associated with Russians that were conspiring against him: “John Nash believed that people in Boston were wearing red neckties so he would notice them as part of some crypto communist plot” (Nolen-Hoeksema …show more content…
Nasar herself wrote an article into the depths of the movie, and of the actual events recollected. She retells the story in a different point of view than what most of the public eye portrayed from the movie. For one instance, Nash actually never saw visions or figures but rather he heard voices that were very much real to him as any other person walking the street. At times he 'd claim they yell and taunt him. He also never used the commonly known antipsychotic medication, chlorpromazine, which is said to cause side effects such as agitation and confusion. It didn 't play any role in his recovery. Nasar reported that Nash, "emerged from irrational thinking ultimately without medicine other than the natural hormonal changes of aging," as he later put it" (Nasar
People like John Nash who suffered with the illness would have hallucinations and delusions called persecution delusions and grandiosity delusions, which involve the patient feeling as if they are being conspired against or spied on constantly. They, like Nash, truly believe that anyone who doesn 't agree with their thoughts are a part of the conspiracy against them, and out to get them. This causes patients to become agitated and possibly violent and hostile. According the Nolen-Hoeksema: "They may be lucid and articulate, relating elaborate stories of plots against them" (Nolen-Hoeksema 2014). Nash was reported as being angry and hostile with his wife and child at times, and in public. He would comment that everyone worked for a Russian government agency and were out to get him. He even believed that people who walked around wearing red ties were associated with Russians that were conspiring against him: “John Nash believed that people in Boston were wearing red neckties so he would notice them as part of some crypto communist plot” (Nolen-Hoeksema …show more content…
Nasar herself wrote an article into the depths of the movie, and of the actual events recollected. She retells the story in a different point of view than what most of the public eye portrayed from the movie. For one instance, Nash actually never saw visions or figures but rather he heard voices that were very much real to him as any other person walking the street. At times he 'd claim they yell and taunt him. He also never used the commonly known antipsychotic medication, chlorpromazine, which is said to cause side effects such as agitation and confusion. It didn 't play any role in his recovery. Nasar reported that Nash, "emerged from irrational thinking ultimately without medicine other than the natural hormonal changes of aging," as he later put it" (Nasar