According to the YouTube video titled A Brilliant Madness John Nash became diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia during his hospitalization at McClain Hospital. This diagnosis was based on his symptoms which first appeared at 30 years of age and persisted throughout much of his adult life. Additionally, this is also noted in the class textbook “1 month of intense symptomology, the individual continues to display some degree of impaired functioning for at least 5 additional months.” (Comer, 2013). For instance, his distorted sense of reality led him to falsely believe that he would become the Emperor of Antarctica. In addition, other delusions as described by Nash attributed to his belief that he was a victim of a communist organization and