Schizophrenia
John Nash was known as a patient of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion and behavior: disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity (Flett, Kocovski, & Blankstein, 2017). Schizophrenia is one of the most common and severe mental illness all over the world (Willison & Buss, 2008). One of the most significant characteristics is the high mortality rate and shorter life expectancy, and studies shows that the mortality gap is still increasing (Laursen, Nordentoft, & Mortensen, 2014).
At the age of 30, John Nash displayed a series of symptoms that suggest his unstable mental situation (Nasar, 1998). It started with some unnatural behavior. For instance, Nash wore nothing except for a diaper and a sash on a party, sit on his wife’s lap for most of the time, fell into reveries during the lectures, and implied that he was offered a special and extraordinary job. He believed people was hiding secret motivation from him, which started to draw other people’s attention (Nasar, 1998). However, maybe because he has always been strange, or maybe because people wanted to be …show more content…
He didn’t like to play with other children in his neighborhood, he didn’t like the game other children were playing and he didn’t have close friends. Although his parents encouraged or even required him to go outdoor and be a part of the social life, it always lead to the opposite result, which is his withdrawal into his own private world. When he grew up to an adult, he was in a relationship with a woman who had his child. However, she saw him as lack of sensitivity because he was always putting her down and making her feel inferior. Even though she was in love with Nash, she also described him as “standoffish”, and “it was like a dead person” (Nasar,
John Nash was known as a patient of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion and behavior: disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity (Flett, Kocovski, & Blankstein, 2017). Schizophrenia is one of the most common and severe mental illness all over the world (Willison & Buss, 2008). One of the most significant characteristics is the high mortality rate and shorter life expectancy, and studies shows that the mortality gap is still increasing (Laursen, Nordentoft, & Mortensen, 2014).
At the age of 30, John Nash displayed a series of symptoms that suggest his unstable mental situation (Nasar, 1998). It started with some unnatural behavior. For instance, Nash wore nothing except for a diaper and a sash on a party, sit on his wife’s lap for most of the time, fell into reveries during the lectures, and implied that he was offered a special and extraordinary job. He believed people was hiding secret motivation from him, which started to draw other people’s attention (Nasar, 1998). However, maybe because he has always been strange, or maybe because people wanted to be …show more content…
He didn’t like to play with other children in his neighborhood, he didn’t like the game other children were playing and he didn’t have close friends. Although his parents encouraged or even required him to go outdoor and be a part of the social life, it always lead to the opposite result, which is his withdrawal into his own private world. When he grew up to an adult, he was in a relationship with a woman who had his child. However, she saw him as lack of sensitivity because he was always putting her down and making her feel inferior. Even though she was in love with Nash, she also described him as “standoffish”, and “it was like a dead person” (Nasar,