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Running Head: A Beautiful MindMovie Analysis-A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful MindPage | 1A beautiful mind is a movie which was released in the year 2001 and is based on the life of John Nash, an exemplary brilliant but antisocial mathematical genius. In the movie John Nash is plagued with a life long illness with Schizophrenia. The film is set in a time frame where John Nash wax aware of his illness and moving to the point at which he and his wife find a way to manage his condition(Nasar,2011)Schizophrenia is the mental illness depicted in the movie. The illness groped John Nash at a very early age in his life, which later though he successfully overcame, after winning the noble prize. The illness refers to losing touch with the reality and displaying symptoms of mental illusions. In the movie it is shown that John Nash suffered from a very specific type ofSchizophrenia called the “Paranoid Schizophrenia” (Rahman, 2017)The 5 major symptoms of the illness which are clearly visible can be divided into 5 categories. Behavioural symptoms lead to social isolation, disorganized behaviour, hostility, self-harm, repetitive movements (Carbon & Correll, 2014). Secondly, there are signs in moodchanges. Some of the moods which come along the illness are anger, loss of interest in activities, elevated mood and inappropriate emotional response. Thirdly, speech disorder, incoherent speech is some of the symptoms in speech. Fourthly, the patient faces psychological symptoms like hallucination, depression, fear, delusion and paranoia. Lastly, cognitive symptoms include mental confusion, memory loss, amnesia, having a belief that some ordinary vent has a special meaning attached to it, disorientation of thoughts etc.These are the major symptoms of the illness which are divided in the above mentioned 5 category. A person suffering from the disease is prone to have all or some of these symptoms,and experiences them on a day to day basis (Butcher, Hooley & Mineka, 2015)The prevalence of the illness in UAE is 0.7% of the adult population, which is in sync with the global data from WHO (World health organization) .The problem with the illness in UAE, is that there are strong chances that it might go unnoticed, because of lack of education and a mental stigma. It is also mentioned in a health report that cases of this illness are under reported. The world figure states at 1.1% of the human population suffers from this illness, orin other world, 51 million people are suffering from this illness, and China being the country of most number of reported cases(Lee, Nurjono, Wong & Salim, 2017)

A Beautiful MindPage | 2There are various impacts on the individual, family as well as the workplace in which the individual works. If Socio-cultural impacts are considered then individually the patient is kept in isolation, with not much of an interaction with the society. He is treated differently in a light of sympathy, rather than being empathetic. The family of such patient are put down bythe society as not responsible parents, unable to take care of their child. The stigma present inthe society disallows such families to be a part of social gatherings. Also, at the workplace, It will be difficult to justify the job role, biasedness will occur in the organization. Not giving the ownership for the work and enough responsibility.Spiritually as well the person and his environment are deeply affected. It is possible to have either of the two effects on the individual, either he may turn extremely spiritual and look forward to god saving his life, or in other case, being an absolute atheist. Most families end up becoming extremely devoted to god, and wait for god’s charisma to shower on their child. Workplace involves a lot of teamwork, in this particular case, people will be very judging of ones behaviour which might not give him mental peace, resulting in frustration, anger and disappointment in the individual at the workplace.In the movie, the nursing diagnoses with the patient are careful and appropriate. Visiting the secret department of defence facility in pentagon, John Nash gets extremely baffled and disturbed after he breaks the code, assigned to him, and when he is asked to do a further analysis of it, he gets paranoid and highly delusional(Fortinash & Worret, 2014).Alicai (Wife of John Nash) opens up the mailbox and retrieves the letter which John Nash had delivered to pentagon, the letters were unopened, it made John Nash realize that he has been hallucinating and it was his delusion making him belief that he got in touch with the secretory at pentagon and has provided him with confidential information. Also, his assumptions that the Soviets are spying on him got cleared at a later stage (Stuart, 2014)The nurse was keeping the voice in low tone while listening to the patient, using clear or simple words and keeping the direction as simple as possible. This was because it is proven that high pitched voice can lead to anxiety, which further elevates the problem, on the other hand, low pitch helps in better understanding thus helps to diagnose the problem in a much more efficient manner.Focussing and directing the attention of the patient towards the things which are actually present in the environment. Make him touch the things with his fingers to help him get out of

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