Symptoms And Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

Throughout the duration of the film, John Nash appears to have a series of positive symptoms. According to King, positive symptoms “reflect something added above and beyond normal behavior”. This generalization is clearly evident in A Beautiful Mind. The most visible symptom that can be seen in John Nash’s behavior is his psychomotor movements. King states that “a person with schizophrenia may show unusual mannerisms, body movements, and facial expressions”. In the film, John Nash demonstrates these movements through

The evidence of the cognitive symptoms, as with any disease, is more difficult to see externally in a person suffering from Schizophrenia. John Nash was not a very social person and I believe that this is attributed to the inability of expressing thoughts and feelings caused by the disease. His office in the movie looks somewhat like what I imagined the inside of his mind to look like; cluttered. Pictures on top of articles, on top of more pictures. There were papers hanging from the ceiling and string connecting pictures while forming patterns. One pattern I saw repeated a few times throughout the film was a spider- web image. This to me just shows how everything in his mind seemed as though it was connected in some way.

Seeing as Nash's experiences in the film follow the Type II diagnosis (DSM-IV-TR) one could reasonably expect that his symptoms would follow in the same diagnostic pattern. But, instead of coming on slowly and consistently, these auditory and visual hallucinations come on acutely (actually almost immediately). This extremely acute onset of serious symptoms is out of line with what should be occurring. What should be shown is slowly deteriorating symptoms that are in line with increasingly complex delusions. The onset of delusions after the hallucinations is also outside the norm of the differential of Schizophrenia, although not impossible.

An alternative diagnosis that I would have given Nash had it not been ruled out by his obvious and severe signs of paranoid schizophrenia would have been bipolar I. This disorder encompasses many overlapping symptoms with his true diagnosis. “Bipolar I is the category in which mania is present and although not required may also show symptoms of depression” (Ray, 2015, p. 268). Nash never presented any signs of being depressed but he did experience periods of time where he seemed to be manic. He exhibits an inflated self-esteem and grandiosity through the duration of the film. After he begins working for the Pentagon, Nash begins to get obsessive about his work (a goal-directed activity) and starts sleeping less. These are all symptoms of bipolar I and Nash presented them all at different points of the movie. I ultimately ruled out this disorder because his positive symptoms of schizophrenia could not be explained by bipolar

2) Describe some of this character’s behaviors (2-3) that are indicative of “abnormality” or “impairment” (for the individual and/or others).

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thought, cognitive impairment, and mood symptoms. Hallucinations may include hearing voices (auditory hallucinations) or seeing people (visual hallucinations) that are not actually present. Patient also often have “negative” findings such as decreased energy, flat affect, and a lack of interest. These symptoms must typically be present for at least 6 months and not be better explained by another medical or psychiatric disorder.

Schizophrenia is described by the National Institute of Mental Health as “a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that has affected people throughout history” (n.d.). The most recognizable symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations involve experiencing sensory stimulation (hearing, seeing, feeling, etc.) when there is no stimulus present. Delusions are false beliefs. Common types of delusions experienced by people with schizophrenia are delusions of persecution, delusions of grandeur, delusions of reference, and delusions of control (Smith & Segal, 2014). Delusions of persecution involve the belief that a person or someone they love is in grave danger, or someone is out to get them. Delusions of grandeur are beliefs that someone is famous or highly important, or they possess unique powers. Delusions of reference are characterized by the belief that mundane occurrences such as a commercial or dogs barking carry a special message meant for them. Delusions of control are beliefs that a person’s thoughts or behavior are being controlled by outside sources. Other symptoms of schizophrenia include disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, and a variety of negative symptoms (Smith & Segal, 2014). Disorganized speech includes loose associations (each thought only slightly related to the next, if at all), neologisms (made-up words), clanging (unnecessary use of rhyming), and word salad (jumbled speech without an organizational pattern). Signs

Let me start off by first saying that I am not a master of Psychology and my argument is based on factual information collected from the DSM-V paired with my own personal opinions. Secondly, I am writing this essay based on the biographical film, A Beautiful Mind, which after researching online, did not accurately represent all of John Nash’s symptoms. Of course, as with any film, there are large time gaps that make it difficult to specify when and for how long Nash’s psychotic symptoms persisted. However, I will try my best-pardon the lengthy disclaimer.

Positive symptoms are when symptoms of schizophrenia are bizarre additions to an individual’s behavior, such as delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, hallucinations, and inappropriate affect. Delusions, or incorrect thoughts, occur in various ways but the most popular is persecution, when the individual feels like everyone is out to get them, following delusions of grandeur, or feeling like they are of higher power such as being the Queen of England, when they clearly are not. Another symptom is disorganized thinking and speech that can include loose associations in which the conversation is all over the place, neologisms which is making up words, or the individual with schizophrenia will talk in clang or repeated rhymes. Third, is hallucinations

The characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia, according to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000), first require that at least two symptoms from the following list are pointedly exhibited within a month: delusions, hallucinations, disordered speech, catatonic behavior, and other negative symptoms such as a lack of emotional expressiveness known as affective flattening, a deficiency of speech known as alogia, or a general lack of drive known as avolition. However, if the delusions or hallucinations are extreme, only one of these symptoms is required. These symptoms are mainly behavioral core symptoms. Moreover, affective core symptoms of schizophrenia include paranoia. Secondly, the patient must experience social and/or occupational dysfunction. The patient noticeably begins to perform insufficiently in these major areas of functioning. This traces to cognitive core symptoms in the sense of mental impairments. For example, schizophrenic patients often believe that they hear voices, feel paranoid and threatened without reason, and cannot grasp social cues or functions. Third, duration is a key aspect of the symptoms that characterize

Schizophrenia is characterised by hallucinations, delusions, disorganised speech and behaviour, and other symptoms that cause social or occupational dysfunction. these type of symptoms must have been present for six months and have to include at least one month of active symptoms. DSM-5 raises the symptom threshold, requiring that an individual exhibit at least two of the specified symptoms. For example, catatonia will be used as a specifier for schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions such as schizoaffective disorder. This specifier can also be used in other disorder areas such as bipolar disorders and major depressive disorder.

Throughout the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ronald William Howard, the main character John Nash is conveyed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that makes the subject's sense of reality abnormal or impaired; paranoid schizophrenia is a subtype of schizophrenia in which the patient has delusions (false beliefs) that a person or some individuals are plotting against them or members of their family. (MedicalNewsToday) John Nash mannerisms abnormal, so much so that he would draw into himself in a room full of people, or sometimes, even stutter.

In the movie A Beautiful Mind John Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia. This was evident throughout the movie, even before the diagnosis was directly stated. Many of his symptoms became more and more obvious. He suffered from delusions when he imagined his roommate and his roommate’s niece were there, and when he thought that he worked for the FBI and there were people hunting him down. His speech became disorganized and less coherent the worse he became.

John Nash is well above average in terms of intellectual functioning. He is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He first started exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia when he attended Princeton University. The symptoms that were observed were hallucinations and delusions. In Nash’s mind, he had a college roommate name Charles Herman. In addition, he stated that he met Herman’s niece named Marcee and a secret agent named William Parcher, whom he worked for at a secret location by breaking Russian codes. He developed persecutory delusions while working for William Parcher because he believe that Russians are trying to kill him for

According to the DMV-IV John Nash was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia because of certain criteria he showed, hallucinations and delusions. It is listed in the DMV-IV as 295.30 Paranoid Type-Schizophrenia (DSM-IV, 1994). Dr. Nash had a break from reality when he