...Beautiful Mind). The movie, A Beautiful Mind captures the life of a mathematical genius' John Nash. In Nash’s early twenties, he studied at a prestigious school called the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The signs of mental illness started to unfold as Nash created his imaginary best friend named Charles. Another character he created is named Parcher, who works for the Central Intelligence Agency and desperately needed his assistance in deciphering Russian messages. “Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia [at the age of 31], Nash spent the next three decades in and out of mental hospitals” (www.pbs.org). Throughout that time he eventually overcame the struggles of the disorder through his intellectual mind. Schizophrenia is a chronic, more or less debilitating illness characterized by perturbations in cognition, affect and behavior, all of which have a bizarre aspect, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition. “A more modern definition of schizophrenia describes it as a long-lasting psychotic disorder (involving a severe break with reality). In which there is an inability to distinguish what is real from fantasy as well as disturbances in thinking, emotions, behavior, and perception” (Ciccarelli & White, 2012). In reference to the DSM-IV-TR, the characteristic symptoms of criteria is delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, negative symptoms, and grossly disorganized...
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...crack encrypted enemy communication it is then that he meets mysterious William of the United States Department to look for patters in magazines and newspaper in order to prevent a Soviet plot. Meanwhile he falls in love with his wife Alicia and starts a family, his unusual job with the United States Department leads him to fear for his life however William blackmails him to stay on his assignment. While in a conference he attempts to flee from what appears to him the Soviets, however he was just running away from Dr. Rosen a psychiatrics after being sedated he believes the facilities are property of the Soviets. His wife is told that John has schizophrenia and that Charles, Marcee and William exist only in his imagination, that he doesn’t work for United States Department, he is then give insulin shock therapy and eventually released it is then when he decides to secretly stop taking his medication and accepts his hallucinations and instead of medication decides to solve the problem by ignoring the imaginary friends until he is able to finally live a normal life and receives the Nobel prize for his revolutionary work. The issue of A different way out in a Beautiful mind: The primary problem for Nash was his inability to distinguish between reality and his hallucinations; his paranoia had been intensified by the anxiety felt by John. Nash did not consciously...
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...Schizophrenia is a frightening mental illness one can live with because they don’t have a grip on reality. In my opinion, the scariest aspect of this illness is seeing the victims struggle in not knowing what is real and what isn’t and how their hallucinations can lead them to do anything because they have no sense of reality. John Nash suffered from both auditory and visual hallucinations which gave him a skewed perception of reality, which he perceived to be real. His hallucinations lead him to believe that he is a spy working for the government, so for months he abandons his students, alienates his partners and replaces his research with this futile, all-consuming obsession. Another horrifying aspect of schizophrenia is seeing how paranoid John becomes due to his hallucinations and the pain he undergoes when he is...
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...the film opens with Paulie having already been diagnosed with the condition some 18 years prior and waking up with a full episode of dealing with this diagnosis. Additionally, the paper will explain the mental illness, explore the criterion for being diagnosed with the mental illness and describe ways the disorder was portrayed accurately as well as some of the inaccuracies of this disorder portrayed in the film. Finally, the paper will focus on how my own view as well as the view of the lay persons view may have been effected by the film and its portrayal of this mental illness. Movie Review: Out of Darkness Imagine if you will, your life is everything you expected! You are a 23-year-old beautiful, young woman who has been described as vibrant, intelligent and brilliant. You are in your 3rd year of medical school and you see your goals materializing right in before your very eyes. You are living the life you always thought you would live, your goals are within arm’s reach and your life’s plan is in full effect. Life is...
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...Drug use, Dangers and Preventions | Final Project | | Chris Furtado | 12/7/2011 | Chris Furtado Crim 120 12/7/11 Final Project Option #3: Drug use and prevention. For my final project I’m focusing on illegal drug use in the juvenile society and how it affects their livelihoods, the different types of drugs teens are becoming addicted to and what new types of drugs they are experimenting with in their society, and why they choose to start using drugs. I will be researching the street cost of these drugs, and the ways that they are being introduced into the American market and juveniles are profiting from it, as well as researching the pharmacology, psychology, sociology, treatment, and the business of drugs. Then I will be finalizing my research with ways to prevent juveniles from becoming addicted to these types of drugs and who to further education juveniles about the dangers and harms of drug use. Researchers have determined that “youngsters who have conduct problems are more likely than others to be exposed to illicit drugs” (Abadinsky: 21). Most juveniles who have emotional and behavioral problems are more than likely to start abusing alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs, according to a study done by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The study done by the (SAMHSA) also found that juveniles were inclined toward substance abuse admitted to delinquent behavior such as stealing, cutting classes or skipping school, and...
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...Schizophrenia 6/17/2014 A. Hallmark features and diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia 4 1. Introduction 4 2. Defining schizophrenia - Hallmark characteristics 4 2.1 Loss of contact with reality 4 2.2 Hallucinations 4 2.2.1 Auditory hallucinations 4 2.2.1 B. Other hallucinations 5 2.3 Delusions 5 2.3.1 Delusions of persecution: 5 2.3.2 Delusions of grandeur: 5 2.3.3 Delusions of control: 5 2.3.4 Delusions of thought broadcasting and thought insertion and thought withdrawal: 5 2.3.5 Delusions of reference: 6 2.3.6 Other Delusions 6 2.4 Disorganised speech 6 2.4.1 Loosening of associations – 7 2.4.2 Problems with attention – 7 2.4.3 Neologism – 7 2.5 Disorganised or catatonic behaviour 7 2.6 Negative symptomology 7 2.6.1 Apathy and indifference 7 3. Diagnostic criteria – DSM5 classification 8 3.1 Characteristic symptoms 8 3.2 Social and/or occupational dysfunction 8 3.3 Duration 8 3.4 Schizoaffective and mood disorder exclusion 9 3.5 Substance and general medical condition exclusion 9 3.6 Relationship to a previously diagnosed developmental disorder 9 B. Living positively with schizophrenia 10 1. Understanding schizophrenia and its symptoms 10 2. Approaches to treating schizophrenia 10 2.1 Psychotherapy 11 2.1.1 Positive living psychotherapy 11 2.2 Group therapy 11 2.3 Cognitive behavioural therapy 12 2.4 Assertive community treatment (ACT): 12 2.5 Family...
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...Hello, I am back! I have just finished my research on abnormality and psychological disorders for humans. Before I go into the different abnormalities and the disorders, I think it is best if you first understood what is considered “abnormal.” Everyone has their own view on what is normal or abnormal; you may think someone is normal when they actually are a threat to the people around them. Also, you can see someone in the park wearing something outlandish and think he or she is very weird, but that just might be their sense of style. This would be known as social nonconformity, where the person may be wearing an unusual outfit or they may have colorful tattoos and piercings covering their whole body. This does not necessarily mean that the person is mentally unstable. There is also something called statistical abnormality, where the person scores extremely high or extremely low on a score of some dimension, like an IQ test. These very high or very low scores will fall in the top and bottom 2.5% on a bell-curve graph. The lower 2.5% is the portion that is categorized with different disorders. The study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders is called psychopathology. These psychological problems are classified using the DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders). This book helps psychologists determine what disorder a person has and the best way to treat the patient. A mental disorder is a significant impairment in psychological functioning. There...
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...schizophrenia, include meeting three criteria: need to have two or more characteristics symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized behavior/catatonic behavior or negative symptoms such as blunted affect, alogia, or alovitian which was evident in this film.. In addition to these symptoms, the individual must also display a social or occupational dysfunction, such as a disturbance in functioning in his work, interpersonal relationship or self-care. The third criterion is having all of these symptoms continue for more than six months which John Nash showed throughout his graduate school. Criterion A for schizophrenia is met because the hallucinations described in that criterion were present in John Nash. Reinforcing this is the fact that John Nash is perceived as a as normal student attending Princeton University studying to be a Mathematician. Nash hallucinated different positive symptoms. When Nash was at Princeton, he was supposed to be in a single room dormitory with no roommate, and he ended up hallucinating he had a roommate, named Charles Herman. This roommate ends up staying in contact with him throughout the duration of his adulthood and later hallucinates that Charles later introduces his niece Marcee to him. Nash also hallucinates Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that needs Nash’s intelligence. It was his hallucination of Ed Harris that formulates his delusional thinking. He begins to have delusional thoughts that he a government...
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...as we are on the edge of REM sleep. The disorder has been connected with such hallucinogenic events such as alien abduction or an evil presence. Sleep paralysis is an inability to move or speak, occasionally accompanied by hallucinations, for up to several minutes upon awakening or just before falling asleep. I have had this about five times in my life, and I truly believe its Demons! It is the scariest thing you will ever experience in your life! The worst time that it happened was when I slept on my living room couch one night, and sometime around 4am I awoke to hearing footsteps getting closer to me. I could open my eyes, but could not move, no matter how hard I tried. Suddenly, I heard a whispering in my left ear could not make out what it was saying. I could only feel its presence, but not see it. My heart was pounding, and I struggled to get up, but could not, and then I felt it holding me down on my chest, I tried to fight it, but it was too strong. Because it was a deep, dark, cold thing, all I knew to do was start saying “I love God" over and over and was actually able to say it aloud barely, and it released me immediately! I then got up terrified, turned on all the lights, searched my house to make sure no one was there, and called to talk to my mom and tell her what I had just experienced. I could not stop thinking about it all day, it was that scary!! I was scared to go to sleep for the next few...
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...Macbeth is a play written for James I after the death of Queen Elizabeth. James was intrigued with witchcraft and the love of Scotland. In order to understand Shakespeare's Macbeth you have to understand the time and historical period which it is set. This is the Elizabethan period which is the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century when there was an authoritarian government. In this era the monarchy ruled the governments, they needed to raise strong and loyal armies to protect and rule their counties. Shakespeare chose legends and events in Scottish history to dramatise Macbeth, which he uses from the "Holinshed's chronicles around 1050 AD", that he alters and manipulates these freely to portray Macbeth's loyalty and then his destruction...
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...obstacles such as the thorns in which her dress got caught in, barbed wire, a scarecrow, a large dog, a hunter and the lady, which ties her shoes. All of these obstacles among her dementia and hallucinations, which are implied throughout the story, delay her from reaching town. Throughout the story the reader can perceive that her grandson has already died, however due to her dementia she has trouble remembering. A Worn Path by Eudora Welty is a metaphor for people in this world that use the “worn path” instead of the easy one to reach their goals, just like Phoenix Jackson used her undying love and devotion for her grandson as a push towards town through the forest even though the journey is hard. Phoenix’s journey through to the woods to town is a long and tiredly one- her journey in many ways is just like many of ours. When Phoenix is passing through a field of dead corn she realizes that “there was no path”. With her realization so to came mine. Just like she was walking through a pathless field so to do we. Our day consist of our basic routines. I as a student wake up every morning, get dressed, go to school, do homework, sleep. The path I led was in field of dead corn however is it when I instituted change, meaning and goals in my life when my path suddenly appeared, and the struggle of life began. “‘Walk pretty’ she said. ‘This the easy place. This the easy going’…she ‘[swayed] through the quite bare fields, through the little strings of trees silver in their dead leaves,...
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...Lorena Thoma Psych 1 Rm. # D135 Professor Nancy Melucci Term Paper: A Beautiful Mind. The film, A Beautiful Mind, is about the life of Mathematician John Nash and his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. It follows his journey from the point in his life that he is completely unaware of his schizophrenia, to the point where, thanks to Princeton University, his employer at the time, along with his dedicated and faithful wife Alicia and their accommodations for him, find a way to properly manage his condition. The film succeeds in realistically describing the disturbed thinking, emotion, and behavior that characterizes this disorder, as well as the difficult management and recovery from schizophrenia. The movie communicates the vital importance of the factors that contributed to Nash’s recovery and achievement as an intellectual, such as the Nobel Prize in 1994 and world acclaim. His story shows first-hand the problems that come with the territory. This is the story about the mystery and complex functions of the mind, in its three main acts, genius, madness, and reawakening.in this paper I will discuss how accurate the depiction of schizophrenia is in the film. Nash shows many of the symptoms characterized by schizophrenia, such as being socially withdrawn. For example, at the beginning of the film Nash is very dissociated and awkward in social situations. He doesn’t seem to be well associated with people and becomes very anxious...
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...Her insanity about the existence of Peter Quint and Miss. Jessel destroys her mentality along with the lives and the innocence of Flora and Miles. The governess desires to protect the children from the ghosts that don’t even exist and impress her employer, which results in complete chaos. The governess desires to impress and possibly have a relationship with her attractive employer. Therefore she takes upon all of the events that has occurred into her own hands, and leaves her employer alone like he instructed her to do so. However she goes insane and enables her imagination to cloud reality, corrupting her life and the others that surround her. Miles ends up dying in her arms, and Flora ends up being sick and sent to...
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...In Arthur Miller’s, The Death of a Salesman, every character deals with a conflict at some point. However, Willy Loman is faced with a significant amount throughout the entirety of the play; none of which are solved by the end. He faces the reality of him living in a world of constant daydreaming, hallucinations, and visions of his own American Dream. Willy’s perception of who he should be is continually at odds with who he is; which is a salesman with an out-of-date perception of the world around him. Willy truly believes that he is able to achieve greatness, but he cannot understand why he hasn’t. Willy fails in a life that exists because he cannot stop living in a reality that never will. Throughout a majority of the play, Willy and Biff...
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...culture is often the major driving force behind visible practices” (p. 107). Cultural and spiritual assessment paper gives me a chance to look at my own culture. “Becoming culturally competent first requires you to examine your feelings and experiences regarding diversity, starting with an understanding of your own heritage. Then, you will need to learn more about specific cultural differences so you can develop an appreciation for the values and beliefs of both patients and staff co-workers” (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2010, p. 28). As far as mental health patients, it is an absolute necessary to understand the client’s culture since it has a very big influence on their wellness state. If a healthcare provider does not consider the client’s culture, it will cause lots of trouble and pain for the client. “Clients suffer cultural pain when health care providers disregard their valued way of life” (Potter & Perry, 2009, p. 113). Spirituality has an important role in a person’s well-being. “Spirituality and spiritual well-being are significant factors in maintaining health and coping with chronic and terminal illnesses” (Potter & Perry, 2009, p. 447). Spirituality helps patients to cope with their illness. It may be an outside force that supports them. “Research shows that spirituality positively affects and enhances health, quality of life, health...
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