Ophelia is a young girl in her teens that is growing up with just her father. She has a charming personality and ever attracts attention from Hamlet throughout the book. People would consider her to be living a very stable life and a healthy lifestyle, until Hamlet stabs her father thru a tapestry and ends up taking her father life. Her father’s death came to such a shock that she does not ever come back to a stable mind again. She begins to, “talks (talk) about her father a lot, and says she hears there are conspiracies around the world, and coughs, and beats her chest, and gets angry over tiny matters, and talks nonsense” (Shakespeare 235). Ophelia is exhibiting many different signs of the bipolar disease. One of the symptoms that they describe Ophelia having is, “exhibit (exhibiting) manic behavior, such as speaking very rapidly so that it is difficult for others to understand them” (Gwinnell 7). Ophelia speaks word but no one can understand what she is saying. This can be a prime example of a mental disorder occurring. Ophelia is believed to have been, “robbed of her sanity, without which we’re just pictures, or animals” (Shakespeare 241). It is proven that people who exhibit these behaviors have a very high probability of having the bipolar disease. People with the bipolar disease will often see things that are not actually there and will grow …show more content…
He receives high praise from all of his colleagues for his accomplishments that he has achieved. Nash makes friends with some people who you follow in the book. It is only later in the books you discover that his “friends” do not actually exist at all. They are just people that only Nash can communicate with. He talks to them in real life but only he can hear what they are saying. Many people, “make fun of him because his he was always so up in the clouds” (Nasar 843). People who are Schizophrenic, “may feel tense, is unable to sleep or concentrate and may become socially withdrawn…” (Kahn 6). When people do not get sleep and are socially withdrawn they will become worse as time goes on. Without anyone the help bring them back to reality they become adrift and end up becoming into an un-recoverable state. Bipolar disease gets worse as time goes on if not treated. It usually is brought about in the teen years but is almost undetectable. Nash would have mood swings that would change his point of view on life, “his mood turned slowly and inexorably into one of deep disappointment and depression. Nash spent long hours walking around the city, mostly in the parks and along the lake, waiting, endlessly waiting” (Nasar 787). Schizophrenics will become depressed due to their social discomfort. They will wander in search of things do not exist and will have a persistence