Beautiful Mind

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A Beautiful Mind
A beautiful mind is an American movie based on the life of John Nash. Ron Howard directed the life history film. Other actors in the movie include Christopher Plummer, Ed Harris, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsh, Antony Rapp, Paul Bettany, Jenifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, and Josh Lucas. As the leading actor in the film, John Nash develops his schizophrenic conditions at the movie's start. He becomes delusional in various scenes and is illustrated in a painful situation, which bothers his wife Alicia, who is pregnant, as Nash starts to experience schizophrenia (Beautiful Mind, 2001). The film illustrates the life of an individual who had ambitions in serving humanity. He discovered his conditions immediately after quitting his professional life as a mathematician. He, however, began experiencing frightening delusions that obstructed his path. Nash plays the role of Russell Crowe, a figure with fantastic behavioral qualities. The role portrays a man who almost lost his mind but later recovered and resumed his normal condition.
Ron Howard utilizes the sensational features to illustrate the positive side of Nash. He inspired and encouraged other characters, such as Nash's wife, Alicia. On the flip side, Alicia never lost his life to his husband and kept encouraging him that all would be well. The film seeks to illustrate to folks that extraordinary things are possible. Nash loses his visual in the movie due to the schizophrenic condition, and as a federal agent persuades him, he manages to escape from the chase scene. Despite his visual problem, he could run from the location, which is an aspect of motivation. The actor's level of creativity was high such that he could form patterns that never existed and connect them. For instance, Alicia finds his husband with office papers on the floor of torn newspapers and magazines. He formed patterns from the pieces of paper and connected them by lines to create his imagery patterns. The infections seemed to have taken a toll on him, surprising many people who surrounded him since they did not expect such events.
The movie shows mental illness as a common challenge illustrating the essential features faced by folks with schizophrenia. The infection makes the life of individuals unbearable, but the film demonstrates that folks can recover from the condition. For instance, Nash was able to perform various activities after recovering from the disease. Also, he was able to resume his academic qualifications (Horner & Horner, 2001). The treatment of John Nash is attributable to Christopher Plummer, a psychiatrist who noticed his condition. He performed various procedures on Nash to determine whether he had schizophrenia. For instance, he conducts an insulin shock therapy that causes pain to the patients while on the system. Later, the psychiatrist recommended medication that helped improve Nash's performance. However, the medication was not a permanent solution since the character could change his behavior for a specified time and later resume delusions. A new medication type was recommended to him, and Nash slowly began to recover. After a full recovery, Nash embarked on his profession as an academic, where he had surpassed (Howard et al., 2006). He acknowledged his recovery was a great experience in his life while receiving his Nobel Prize. Nash also admitted that his condition allowed him to conduct particular activities that many folks living everyday lives could not accomplish. He maintained that the illness enabled him to leave a legacy.
Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
The process of diagnosing the condition is complex since there are no tests for schizophrenia. The best method of diagnosing the disease is through an assessment conducted by a mental health specialist (Fröhlich, 2016). Sometimes, the use of various drugs like methamphetamines could result in individuals experiencing symptoms related to schizophrenia. In addition, diagnosing the infection becomes challenging because many individuals diagnosed do not believe they have the illness. A common symptom associated with individuals diagnosed with the disease is a lack of awareness that complicates the treatment. A correct diagnosis of the infection is achieved by adequately evaluating the infected folk's symptoms for six months. While assessing the symptoms, healthcare practitioners must rule out other conditions such as bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and brain tumors.
The diagnosis of schizophrenia occurs when an individual portrays various symptoms such as delusions, disorganized speech, disorientation, hallucinations, social isolation, and disorderly behavior. Delusions and hallucinations only can often result in the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Patients hear, see and smell things that others cannot understand. Hallucinations are very real to individuals experiencing them, and friends and family can be perplexed. Delusions are false beliefs that never change, even when new ideas and facts are presented to folks holding the views (NAMI, 2020). Generally, schizophrenia symptoms displayed by folks with schizophrenia are mistaken as genius acts. Individuals with schizophrenia also feel low in routine activities, ignore their hygiene, and withdraw from the social world.
Further, they are always suspicious, making them believe that they are in danger of harm from other people. For instance, Nash could not keep calm after seeing the lights were on as his wife approached his room. He suggests his wife leave and stay with her sisters to ensure her safety, telling her to avoid side streets and stay in crowded places. Nash could also hear and see things that never existed and was prone to self-harm instead of hurting others. Early identification of the illness increases the chance of managing it, minimizing psychotic incidents, and recovering. Provision of quality treatment to patients during their first psychotic incidents leads to limited chances of hospital admission. Little time to control the symptoms is incurred compared to patients who fail to receive immediate intervention.
Mental health specialists may sometimes experience hardship in determining whether individuals have schizophrenia due to related illnesses. Simultaneously, various symptoms might force psychiatrists to believe that individuals have related mental diseases such as bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. Folks with bipolar disorders move from moments of elevated moods and exciting behaviors to deep depression periods (NHS, 2021). Also, they may hear voices or encounter other types of hallucinations or delusions. On the flip side, schizoaffective disorder is considered schizophrenia since its symptoms resemble schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, the condition is a mental disorder that might happen once or twice in individuals' lives and instigated by stress.
Etiology of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia's ideological factors include physiological factors, genetic factors, and environmental factors. The most plausible etiology ...