Many studies show what personality traits can affect schizophrenia. John Forbes Nash Jr. showed an interesting personality trait that amplified his schizophrenic disorder. According to Capps (2004), his narcissism not only intensified his schizophrenia, but it helped in his recovery or repression of his schizophrenia. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, attempts to convey the life of Nash in a way that is understandable to all. The movie begins while he is in graduate school at Princeton University and it goes throughout his life, showing his falling in love with his wife, the birth of their first son, and his first admittance into a mental hospital. The movie does stray from the true story, and it does not include everything you must know to completely
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Many things made him this way. Not only did his parents have a part in it – they will not be discussed because they were not portrayed in the film - but also the people around him had a part in worsening his symptoms. His wife Alicia, and the way that she thought of him enhanced his narcissistic nature because she thought very highly of him. In A Beautiful Mind (2001) this is portrayed in one particular scene when they go on their first date to an event for Nash. Nash is showing Alicia the stars. He asks her to think of any shape and he will show her the shape in the stars. She chooses an umbrella and he shows it to her and she is fascinated and completely shows her approval and fascination in him. By doing this she has made his narcissism intensify. Here is yet another person who feels he is the most important and most interesting person in the world. This causes him to see more delusions and hallucinations of people. It is soon after this that another of his delusions starts to take a turn for the worst. He believes that he is working for someone to decode Russian messages in Life magazines. Even at the party he feels as if someone is following them. After the scene with Alicia, he feels like he needs to work faster which makes his boss show up more, and he works so much that he feels paranoid that the Russians are watching him and want to kill him and Alicia and their unborn
Many things made him this way. Not only did his parents have a part in it – they will not be discussed because they were not portrayed in the film - but also the people around him had a part in worsening his symptoms. His wife Alicia, and the way that she thought of him enhanced his narcissistic nature because she thought very highly of him. In A Beautiful Mind (2001) this is portrayed in one particular scene when they go on their first date to an event for Nash. Nash is showing Alicia the stars. He asks her to think of any shape and he will show her the shape in the stars. She chooses an umbrella and he shows it to her and she is fascinated and completely shows her approval and fascination in him. By doing this she has made his narcissism intensify. Here is yet another person who feels he is the most important and most interesting person in the world. This causes him to see more delusions and hallucinations of people. It is soon after this that another of his delusions starts to take a turn for the worst. He believes that he is working for someone to decode Russian messages in Life magazines. Even at the party he feels as if someone is following them. After the scene with Alicia, he feels like he needs to work faster which makes his boss show up more, and he works so much that he feels paranoid that the Russians are watching him and want to kill him and Alicia and their unborn