A beautiful mind/paranoid schizophrenia

Originally a biographical book written by Sylvia Nasar, about the life of John Forbes Nash brilliant mathematician, born on June 13, 1928.
The film focuses on Jonh Nash and his success as a teacher at the prestigious Princeton University and its subsequent decline to be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
According to the film precisely because of schizophrenia, hallucinating with a little girl and a grown man. If we observe carefully detemos from a purely psychological point of view and we subject to analysis. We can come to the conclusion that the visions were meaningful.
She: It represents the desire of John Nash for being able to take care of another living creature.
The adult man: Represent John Nash desire to be accepted in a society that feels alien to him.
For the visions were completely certain, and he had the ability to interact with them as if they were real people and not mere products of his mind and imagination.

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis in a group of people with chronic and severe mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. Schizophrenia also causes a mutation sustained various aspects of mental functioning of the individual, mainly awareness of reality, and neuropsychological disorganization rather complex, especially executive functions, leading to difficulty maintaining behaviors motivated and directed to goals, and significant social dysfunction.

Symptoms of schizophrenia usually start in young adults and approximately 0.4-0.6% of the population is affected. A person with schizophrenia, usually shows a language and disorganized thinking, delusions, hallucinations, mood disorders and misconduct. The diagnosis is based on the experiences reported by the patient and the behavior observed by the examiner. There are currently no laboratory tests for the diagnosis of schizophrenia and none of the symptoms is pathognomonic of this condition, which makes the diagnosis

The first-line drug treatment is antipsychotic medication, which primarily work by suppressing dopamine activity. The doses of antipsychotics used are generally lower than in the early decades of use. Psychotherapy and vocational and social rehabilitation are also important. In more serious cases, where there is risk for the same patient and to others around them, may be indicated involuntary hospitalization, although hospital stays are less frequent and for shorter periods than in the past. Generally, cognition disorders contribute to persistent problems of behavior. Schizophrenic patients often have other health problems, including drug addiction, depression and anxiety disorder, and social problems such as unemployment, poverty and low quality of life. Life expectancy of patients with schizophrenia is 10 to 12 years less than those without the disease, because of health problems and a higher suicide rate.

• Common symptoms: These are the most characteristic symptoms of this disease:

2. Delusions.
3. Auditory hallucinations.
4. Disorganized speech, eg frequent derailment or incoherence.
5. Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
6. Negative symptoms such as affective flattening, a lack or decline in emotional response, alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition: lack or decline in motivation

• Life expectancy:

Life expectancy of people with the disorder is 10 to 12 years less than those who do not, probably due to increased physical health problems and a higher suicide rate.

Early Heart disease is the most common cause of death in patients with schizophrenia, the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is two to three times higher than in the general population. This risk is accelerated because their rate of smoking is 30-35% higher than the general population. People with schizophrenia also smoke more than patients with other mental disorders. Although several studies have shown that patients with schizophrenia smoke than the general population have not yet produced a definitive explanation of this difference. Suicide risk is strongly associated with postpsicótica depression, previous suicide attempts, substance abuse, agitation or motor restlessness, fear of mental disintegration, poor adherence to treatment. Overdose with treatment drugs as suicide method is not common because antipsychotics have a high therapeutic index, namely the lethal doses are much higher than the doses that produce a therapeutic effect.

By: Salma