Film: A Beautiful Mind A Beautiful Mind is a film based on the life of a famous mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Nash. In the film, John Nash is a well-known mathematical genius who was accepted into Princeton University. However, after being accepted into the university, Nash faced many challenges as he is unable to handle sociability, such as being able to talk to the opposite sex properly or attend classes due to Nash's belief that no one likes, nor does he like people. In the film, John Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia by a psychiatrist due to the delusions he had and the inability to distinguish his imagination and reality. Symptoms of schizophrenia include difficulty having social relationships, inability to distinguish between reality and imagination, and the ability to have a clear thought process (Schizophrenia - PubMed Health). In the film, the character of John Nash was introduced based on Nash's perspective of himself. and its surroundings. At Princeton, Nash demonstrated that he lacked the ability to act normally at social events unless he was with his close friends such as Sol and Bender. Based on the idea that this was Nash's perspective from the beginning of the film, we can agree that Nash had no confidence in behaving normally in social events. We find out that Nash's friend Charles, who Nash believed was his roommate throughout college, never existed; rather it was a hallucination of Nash's mind. Nash carries symptoms that link to the diagnosis of schizophrenia because Nash had no hallucinations before entering Princeton University, but he had complications in social interaction during his high school years. Like Schizophre's chronology... middle of paper... ibrium even many years after the publication of his theory. Yet, John Nash is just one example of many people with limitations due to being mentally ill, but each of these people has the potential of a beautiful mind. Page Nash bio reference. MacTutor History of Mathematics. Retrieved February 22, 2013, from http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nash.htmlOCD and Schizophrenia - Learn more about OCD and schizophrenia. OCD: Information about OCD symptoms and OCD treatment. Retrieved February 21, 2013, from http://ocd.about.com/od/otheranxietydisorders/a/OCD_schizophrenia.htmRosenberg, R. S., & Kosslyn, S. M. (2011). Abnormal psychology. New York: WorthSchizophrenia - PubMed Health. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved February 21, 2013, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PM