Mental Health Disorder or a Famous Personality

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER OR A FAMOUS PERSONALITY
MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER OR A FAMOUS PERSONALITY
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MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER OR A FAMOUS PERSONALITY
Abstract:
John Nash was a famous mathematician who won the Nobel Prize after introducing the
Game theory. He was called mathematical genius by his professors and was bright student in the
universities. It was during his age in the 30s when symptoms of the schizophrenia started to
occur in him resulting in hallucinations and delusions. The symptoms that he faced interfered
with his professional and personal lives making him suffer emotionally and mentally as well. He
believed that he was helped very limitedly by the medications and more by the support of his
family, colleagues and friends. This assignment would be mainly focusing on every aspect of his
life which was affected by schizophrenia and how he overcame the symptoms in course of time
and turned out victorious.

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Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Early years of John Nash:................................................................................................................2
Example of hallucinations and delusions that John faced:..............................................................4
Perceptions and suffering of the people with the disorder:.............................................................4
Approach towards overcoming the symptoms of schizophrenia:....................................................5
Important observations that shows the requirement of further research:........................................6
End of the legacy of John Nash:......................................................................................................7
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................8
References:......................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction:
John Nash is considered to be one of the most influential and famous thinkers in the
domain of Mathematics of the 20th century. He had published his biography called the Beautiful
mind and there is also an award winning film of the same name that has won the hearts of
millions of people changing the ways by which people see mental health illness (Nasar, 2019).
He had been one of the most successful personalities who had fought with the mental disorder of
schizophrenia and had emerged out victorious. This assignment will show how John had
gradually developed the mental health disorders, his fight through the different phases of the
disorder and how he emerged out successfully from the disorder with the support of society and
close ones in the life.
Early years of John Nash:
Studies are of the opinion that core schizophrenia begins in the period of adolescence or
that of early adulthood. This might be seen to include a psychotic break that involving
diminished executive function along with that of the affective blunting and even various forms of
thought disorders. The concept of “thought disorders” mainly means the inability in thinking
clearly or in a consecutive manner. Studies are of the opinion that it does not necessarily mean
that every people affected with the disorder would be suffering from hallucinations and delusions
of psychosis. Coming to the context of the John Nash, it had been seen that his illness mainly
began in the year 1959 at the age of 30 which although had passed the window for the period
when schizophrenia mainly occurs (Martinez & Castro-Villarreal, 2017). After being a
prankster in his school years, he achieved a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Here he had started with the subject of chemical engineering and later moved onto chemistry.
Then he found a knack in the subject of mathematics where he both struggled with that of