Last Minute Reaction Paper sucks!

Monday, 14 July 2008

Last Minute Reaction Paper sucks!
I just want to share with you my reaction paper on our major subject Psychopathology. The movie we've watched is "Beautiful mind" (i forgot the director).. Actually, we were not able to finish watching it in our class hours but luckily, i had the chance to watch it on You tube. It's a nice movie, very dramatic i guess.. And if you haven't seen this movie, you'll miss half of your life hehe..

BEAUTIFUL MIND

John Nash, an incomparable math genius student from Princeton University who definitely amazed the minds of people he meets. For me, he is an extraordinary person having a broad and an odd imagination as well. Unfortunately, he suffers from a mental illness called schizophrenia which he doesn’t even know himself. His friends find him weird or likely a nerd, but still they try to make friends with him. Nash tried to communicate and interact with them but in the end, it’s like there’s something that bothers him, some kind of paranoia that leads him to stay away and find himself alone and unconsciously creating things that aren’t really there (hallucination) and believing things that aren’t really true (delusion). Like for example, an imaginary friend which is known to be Charles (his room mate) and Charles’ niece. It’s odd but I strongly believe that all the things kept from his subconscious mind releases through Charles and other delusions his mind creates.

As years passes without knowing that he has such mental illness, Nash have invented some kind of Mathematical formula (equilibrium) which become popular and it startled me. He graduated and become a professor in Mathematics and romantically involved with his hard working student named Alicia and they even got married. But his illness turned out to be worse than I thought; his delusions become rigorous and more uncontrollable by his mind. He even believed that he’s been hired to work to the government to break codes. His other delusional product named Parcher, keeps on haunting him to work and to work which have caused him so much stress that made the symptoms worse. He keeps on believing that there’s a conspiracy, a mission by the government that will lead him to honor, but all of these are only in his mind.

From that moment, Great John Forbes Nash Jr. turned out to be a Paranoid Schizophrenic. Lucky for him to have a wife like Alicia who cared for him and didn’t leave him in the middle of crisis. She didn’t give up his husband and continued helping him to recover, even though they experienced a lot of trials. She almost lost her faith but still she believed in Nash that he will overcome such disease. I really admire her bravery, and I think every woman in our society should look up to her.

Nash continued his medication and deal with his delusional state. And it made me wonder, because according to my belief, “real mentally abnormal person doesn’t even know that he/she is not normal”. But in Nash’s case, how come he realized that he’s suffering from this illness and he can even stay away from his delusions? I don’t know but all I know are risks that may happen if you pay no attention to this illness. Without medication and therapy, they are unable to function in the real world. If they fall victim to severe hallucinations and delusions, they can be a danger to themselves and those around them.

Schizophrenia usually develops gradually, although onset can be sudden. These were the symptoms that Nash have: Confusion, Inability to make decisions, Hallucinations, doesn’t eat regularly and lack of sleep, Delusions, Nervousness, Indifference to the opinions of others, A tendency to argue A conviction that he is better than others, or that people are out to get him. Fortunately, he was able to cop with his Paranoia and lived a simple life, he even got the Nobel Prize he ever wanted because of his genuine mind.

Until now, the causes of schizophrenia are still under debate. A chemical imbalance in the brain seems to play a role, but the reason for the imbalance remains unclear. Hopefully, medical professionals and Psychiatrists were able to diagnose such disease. There is no cure, but the disorder can be controlled with medications and severe attacks may require hospitalization. So people must have faith in work of Science and especially to God.

-Some of the contents about Schizoprenia were copyright from Wikepedia..