The Beautiful Mind: Illuminating the Challenges of Paranoid Schizophrenia

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The Beautiful mind (Schizophrenia)
The movie by the name "Beautiful mind" is one of the best in illuminating the boggling
of the brain and a terrible journey of the main character known as John Nash. John Nash for
many years suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia. The movie was aired in the year 2001 and
took the audience through an experience of John Nash, and all the challenges faced while coping
with the mental illness (Howard et al. 2002). John Nash was one of the mathematicians who
possessed an extraordinary intelligence in mathematics. The character in the movie was
diagnosed with the disease at the early ages of his adulthood. At a personal level, I believe the
film opened the minds and the brains of the audiences incredibly. Reading about the patient
diagnosed with such mental illness is very different from watching the way their family members
act on such occasions (Berkovitch, Lucie, Stanislas Dehaene & Raphaël Gaillard). It is very
accurate that hearing or reading about the schizophrenia can be one of the terrifying things.
Therefore, by watching the Beautiful mind movie, can be very terrible though depicts the real
physiological problems experienced by the individuals living with the mental disease. The
paranoid schizophrenia is one of those chronic cerebral infections that creates a lot of difficulties
to the directly affected individual in interpreting the real-life situations. This particular movie
has, therefore, been modified to adopt the social acceptance standards though it has strictly
majored on the challenges these people face in coping with life (Boyle, 2014).
The paranoid schizophrenia is among the many types of the mental illness. The individuals
suffering from this specific illness are not able to interpret the real situations reasonably hence
are known as to have suffered from the psychosis (Erk et al. 2017). About 40 percent of the
individuals from the mental disorder is associated with the paranoid schizophrenia (Corin ,2017).
The symptoms begin to manifest at the early ages 20 to 30 years of age. The signs of paranoia

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began to exhibit in John Nash at the old generations of his adulthood. The primary symptom
linked to the mental illness is the delusions and the hallucinations with no relationship to the
reality. The signs are as well regarded as positive since they are easy to detect (Amiaz,
Rubinstein, Czerniak, Karni & Weiser,2016). The capability of thinking and reasoning in the real
world is disrupted. However, the paranoid schizophrenia infection has a long life of the
ramification which can result to suicidal cases despite being mild (Frith, 2014). The onset of the
paranoid schizophrenia infection is usually marked by the presence of grandiosity detected at the
delusion occurrences. The wife of the Nash noted the epidemic of the disease to his husband
when he started to hallucinate with his room-mates (Howard et al. 2002). The starting of the
paranoid schizophrenia disease happen quickly in deterioration of the physiological processes.
This is the respect with the appropriate mental situations of the patient which can be very rapid.
The identification and recognition of the paranoid schizophrenia symptoms could be very
challenging for the individuals before experiencing the condition of the disease (Fromer, et al
2014). John Nash main character in the Beautiful mind movie started to experience the status of
the disease when he began to hallucinate with the roommate, Parcher, Charles the United State
officials and Mercee (Howard et al. 2002). This was the advanced point of the infection that
required the immediate treatment with frequent medication and therapy. The etiological aspect of
the disease is not known, but some researchers have explained it as abnormalities of the
neurodevelopmental. The psychosis problems experienced by John Nash marked by the distorted
view of the reality through the delusions and the hallucinations. The infection began by suffering
the torment from the wife and himself. That when he was put on medication, hence the events
were repeated when he failed to adhere to the drug (Fusar-Poli et al. 2015).

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The central part of John's therapy involved the recommendations of the insulin by Dr. Rosen
which is one of the conventional procedures in treating the mental infections though it's currently
outdated (Howard et al. 2002). The convulsive and the insulin treatment have been replaced with
the anti-psychotic medicines. These drugs are believed to have less adverse side effects. The
drugs are being used today to tranquil the individuals suffering from the schizophrenia disease.
The first antipsychotic drugs to be discovered were the clozapine which was in countering the
effects of the receptor locations of the neurotransmitter (Howard et al. 2002). And the dopamine.
Clozapine was a prescription medicine for the exceptional schizophrenia condition and was sold
in all markets of Fazaro and Clozaril. The prescription of the drug was to be sold as tablets. This
tablet was used in blocking the serotine and dopamine which facilitated in reducing the high
sensitivity (Goldman, 2017).
At first, John was provided with a voluntary hospital admission though he was convinced
that there was a very vital work ahead of him being a world peace movement leader. Therefore,
he declined the offer though he was detained for further examinations (Howard et al. 2002).
Later, he was found that he had Paranoid Schizophrenia based on the complexity of his
delusions. These were the days when many hospitals were using the psychoanalysis, electric and
the insulin shock as discussed above in treating the diseases. These methods were mainly used to
reduce the delusions and hallucinations which were experienced by the individuals suffering
from the schizophrenia disease. In future, John Nash has introduced to Thorazine the novel
pioneering drugs for the complications associated with the mind (Howard et al. 2002). John
Nash. The patient's health significantly improved but for a while. John Nash then hires the
lawyer who petitions his discharge, but his wife supported him in attending the outpatient. This
was not the final day for him to be in the hospital in the next about 20 years, Nash was frequently