A Beautiful Mind is a biographical drama film, based on the life oh John Nash a Nobel Prize winner in Economics. the film effectively portrays how John Nash lives with a mental disease schizophrenia. The film is successful in showing how a person living with a mental illness is not limited, but in fact is actually a genius. John Nash suffers all the symptoms of schizophrenia, including auditory and visual hallucinations, paranoia, delusional thinking and a distorted perception of reality. Through the movie we see how these symptoms all have an effect on John Nash's daily life. His relationships with his family, friends and colleagues are all disrupted by the intrusiveness of his illness, mainly because he is perceived as being so smart and these behaviours are incongruent with that.
The movie is based on the life of John Nash, and even though it is a good documentation, there are some parts of the film that distort Nash's true story. In the movie it is shown that Nash has hallucinations, in reality he never did. Also in the movie they show that his schizophrenia was controlled through medication, in truth Nash was able to over come all traces of his illness without any medication. Thus the movie is also another way of showing that modern psychiatrists are wrong when declaring schizophrenia to be a brain disease, because many people with this illness do not necessarily deteriorate without medication. The movie is thus an example of how psychiatry's delusions about schizophrenia continue to spread, unchallenged through main stream culture. At the same time it gives insight and sends a positive message, that mental illnesses are not restrictive, they do not undermine the work of people, and that it is possible to have a mental illness but still carve a name for yourself in the world.
The movie is based on the life of John Nash, and even though it is a good documentation, there are some parts of the film that distort Nash's true story. In the movie it is shown that Nash has hallucinations, in reality he never did. Also in the movie they show that his schizophrenia was controlled through medication, in truth Nash was able to over come all traces of his illness without any medication. Thus the movie is also another way of showing that modern psychiatrists are wrong when declaring schizophrenia to be a brain disease, because many people with this illness do not necessarily deteriorate without medication. The movie is thus an example of how psychiatry's delusions about schizophrenia continue to spread, unchallenged through main stream culture. At the same time it gives insight and sends a positive message, that mental illnesses are not restrictive, they do not undermine the work of people, and that it is possible to have a mental illness but still carve a name for yourself in the world.
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