Schizophrenia In John Nash's Hi A Beautiful Mind

John Nash started as a young graduate student who was attending Princeton University at the very beginning of his career, who would then be John Nash, the mathematics Nobel Prize winner. John Nash had late onset schizophrenia that could have been set off by the stress to have come up with his own idea to publish. He had little to no regard to social interaction, little cognitive symptoms were shown until later in life once medicine was taken into account, he had major positive symptoms such as hallucinations (auditory and visual) and delusions ( false belief). Just like in John’s life the hallucinations and delusions seemed very real. We were following his life and what John felt, saw who John saw, and thought what John was doing was ever day “real” life. It wasn’t until very later that we, the audience, would find out that John Nash would have schizophrenia.
They played on his hallucinations, visually more than auditory, which when someone who has schizophrenia, auditory is the most common hallucination ( Beidel et. al 2014). Another missed representation happened towards the end of the movie. When John wanted to fight for himself, instead of use the antipsychotic medicine. Disorders of such high gravity, like schizophrenia, would be terribly difficult to just push aside and realize that what/who you were “dealing with” was all sudden not real. Something that was portrayed correctly, for someone that doesn’t have any knowledge on schizophrenia, is how real this could be to the human with the diagnosis. We would see these people out in the world and think, “they must be crazy”, but because of this movie we can see a very small fragment of what it must be life to live with this disorder. Also, how real it can really