Schizophrenia In A Beautiful Mind

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A Beautiful Mind is a dramatic and romantic film directed by John Howard about a man named John Nash who’s a mathematical genius and faces schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disorder characterized by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior. John starts experiencing patterns where there aren’t any because schizophrenia causes problems with thinking. He finds a job at Princeton, where he and his friend Charles actually went to college together, and gets a job as a math teacher. During the school year, he has a hard-working student, Alicia, and John starts having a thing for her. Eventually they fall in love and get married. They’re marriage is going great and Alicia starts to realize that John is acting strange. Alicia …show more content…
Most people tease and don’t like mentally disordered people, but for John it wasn’t so bad. He actually found a girl who they both had feelings for and he got married and even had a baby! When John was still diagnosed with Schizophrenia, he began starting to see weird patterns in numbers and things like that. Finally, his mental disorder kept getting worse and worse, so Alicia his wife had to find some help. She called doctors to see if they can treat his mental disorder. And they did. The doctors strapped him all up in a bed and put this machine around his brain. He started moving side to side and it looked like he was getting shocked. After the treatment, John didn’t see imaginary people for a while. Sometimes after you get treated with Schizophrenia, the same symptoms start coming back so then you have to get treated again and that’s what John had to do. Before he got treated, John began to have flashbacks. He remembered his first treatment and seeing the imaginary people and realized they weren’t actually there. So they didn’t give him the second treatment. People with Schizophrenia actually have flashbacks too. A Beautiful Mind is and a Mental Disorder are a good correlation because they can show people how people act in the real

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