Schizophrenia: A Beautiful Mind

John Nash the most Intriguing. John Nash was mildly arrogant, charming, and an extremely gifted mathematician.

He would scribble mathematical formulas and discoveries on windows in his dorm room, and overall he had impeccable intelligence. He developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his impressive rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship, and on through to his eventual dismissal due to schizophrenic delusions.

Anna’s history: Nash could have had paranoid schizophrenia for years but no one noticed It. It Is evident that delusions occur in the mind of a schizophrenic. Perhaps the first indication of Anna’s delusions was when he was observing a glass in the courtyard and noticed a spectrum of light stream out of It.

The colors In the light streamed out onto his friend’s tie, and he imagined the tie with an assortment of shapes on it, which didn’t exist in reality. “That is an awful tie,” Nash remarked.

Nash first started his delusions when he imagined Charles, his imaginary roommate. He would talk and carry on conversations with this man, and even his wife thought he really existed until with further research, I proved otherwise. In part because she was so upset about Nash, his wife Alicia had a growing concern for him.

During Anna’s marriage, he would get phone calls from the Pentagon asking him for help to solve mathematical problems. As Nash was approaching the Pentagon, he Imagined William Preacher, an FBI agent, who told him that he was needed to decode messages.

Nash imagined that a numerical device was implanted onto his arm so they knew he was the right person breaking these codes. Nash had a study room where he would cut out newspaper articles and try to fold patterns in them.

Once he made discoveries, he would go out to a “top secret” house where he would put his findings in a mailbox. He imagined shootouts and other chaotic things. Nash imagined that he went into a car, and people came after him. He Imagined gunshots which scared him. At Anna’s work office In his university.

Preacher asked him to continue decoding the messages. Nash leaded to quit, but Preacher said that if he gave up he would tell the Russians. I diagnosed Nash with paranoid schizophrenia because Nash was paranoid in the sense that he yelled out of his doorway into the hallway, and he was panicking all the time that the Russians were out to get him. He had a psychotic break when he was in his ass’s when he was presenting a speech In the Auditorium of Princeton University as a Math Professor. Nash Imagined that he maniacal Department of Defense agent.

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In a panic-Like state, Nash frantically ran out of the building, petrified that these spies were out to get him and perhaps catch him or stop him from decoding his secret messages. They tried talking to him, but Nash did not believe them. Alicia shortly found out that this was happening, and was emotionally overwhelmed. She discovered his office where he was decoding things. Nash told his wife to be quiet because the “Russians” had microphones and they would be able to hear her.

However, what makes Anna’s case o interesting was that because he was “too clever for his own good”, He snapped back to reality at times and contemplated that everything might not really be real. He tried to slice out the numerical device he imagined was inserted into his arm. Schizophrenia occurs when other family members have it as well. In Anna’s case I observed no family history of the disease, but one of his brothers was suspected of having the disease. In addition, substance abuse leads to schizophrenia.

In Anna’s case, this was the abuse of alcohol which may have been a contributing factor.

Assessment I gave Nash a mental examination. I interviewed his wife and asked her a few questions. With time, I learned that Nash experienced delusions with characters such as Charles, Marcy, and William Preacher who were all fragments of his imagination. These delusions seem so fluid and script-like as to make me wonder if schizophrenia is really as slick as depicted.

These delusions lead to more prominent symptoms such as extreme Armenia.

Diagnosis These observations incited me to diagnose him with paranoid schizophrenia. In my assessment, I learned that Nash went to Princeton in 1947, and he was always a typically unsocial man. This behavior allowed him to be a genius and creative in solving his mathematical problems. Furthermore, with mind studies, other social scientists discovered a possible link or correlation that creativity is possibly linked with schizophrenia.

Planning a Treatment The treatment I proposed was: Nash was sent to the hospital after his speech in the Auditorium.

I said to Alicia: “Imagine they have been your best friends, now they are not dead, they are not gone, but worse, they have never been… ” And Nash eventually told Alicia, “Sometimes I really miss talking to him [Charles]”.

The fact that Nash has a loving wife from the very beginning and an academic recognition in the end actually made his transition to the “real world” much easier, as he satisfied some of the desires in an alternative way, imagine other schizophrenia patients won nave nothing to nag on to In tenet “real world”

Furthermore, Nash was given electric shocks with Electro-convulsion shock treatments and he was given pills to control his delusions. Nash did not want to take the medication any longer when he realized it was getting in the way of him solving mathematical problems, so he decided to go off the medication. When this happened, his delusions reappeared. He thought Marcy was watching his baby when he put him into the bathtub, so the baby ended up almost drowning until Alicia saved her. Outcome of the Case Eventually, Nash learned to control his delusions without medication.

However, this is still not completely reliable.

Schizophrenics often go into remission, or periods of when they do not experience such delusions or hallucinations. Then, they may continue to experience these symptoms again. Nash convinced himself that the people were not real by telling himself this. At first, when he went off the drugs he was not controlling his thoughts. He told them to go away but they were persistent so he fell into his trap again. But then I talked with him and he knew that he had to prove that he could do this on his own.