Can you imagine seeing or feeling things that are not real? In the movie A Beautiful Mind, aims to depict John Nash’s struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is considered a mental disorder that falls into the two categories, negative or positive. When someone exhibits lack of social stability, cognitive or emotional response, it’s classified under negative. On the other hand, when someone shows signs of delusions or paranoia and hallucinations, it’s categorized as positive (Comer 2016).
According to the film, John Nash, a mathematician struggled with paranoia schizophrenia around the age of 30 but notice a change within himself around 25 years of age. He apparently, developed an imagination, thinking he is working with supervisor Williams Parse at United States Department of Defense. In actuality, his wife discovers that Parse and his team that Nash’s sees are not real. The question that arises is if the film a good representation of schizophrenia disorder. Because it’s a film, the producer wants to combine real life with a little action for viewers to see more of an intense film. While reading the transcript of the interview with John Nash, he mentioned that the movie portrayed him as seeing imaginary or visual delusions, as opposed to the real
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Being a person who has actually witnessed someone going through paranoia schizophrenia, I can actually say there is truth to delusions but not to that extent like the film. People with this disorder may hear you actually say something but in reality, you didn’ t. Prior to discovering that a loved one of mine had the disorder, there were countless arguments with them. I would argue, “I never said that or what are you talking about?” It was very painful to witness that and still today they battle with it but its controlled