How bad was his case.
Do you hallucinate as bad as him.
Do you feel he has a severe case?
Fox out
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No I don’t think he had a severe case. Did he have schizophrenia? I don’t even know. Most people don’t just recover from that.
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I always remember the part where he is self harming his arm to find that code. I have never self harmed myself in such a way and him actually going to an empty building thinking it was his work hallucinating all those people on a regular basis that’s not good
Nash suffered a lot from hallucinations, but he still got awarded the Nobel prize for game theory in maths, there must be a connection between madness and genius.
I relate more closely to Edward Nortons character in Fight Club.
Have u watched black swan? She does such a good job here I could not watch these kind of movies again I’m scared it might trigger me
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I saw that movie. Was a special film. She just had too much passion that made her crazy.
Too much stress from wanting to be perfect
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No he hadn’t severe sz, you can’t win a nobel with severe sz off meds.
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That’s true actually, his condition slowly improved. Also he didn’t seem to hear voices from all/most people around him everywhere.
I’m not that smart 
There was quote by someone that went along the lines of “In every genius there is a little bit of madness”
Yes he had severe sz…but he recovered… this is very very rare case…!!
He wrote that:
But after my return to the dream-like delusional hypotheses in the later 60s I became a person of delusionally influenced thinking but of relatively moderate behavior and thus tended to avoid hospitalization and the direct attention of psychiatrists.
Thus further time passed. Then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort. So at the present time I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists.
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I think the work he did get recognized for was before he got sick…I think the biggest thing was making sure he didn’t act up or humiliate the Nobel prize committee. I could be wrong…
Anyways, I don’t relate because I’m not that smart, I’m not that successful, I don’t hallucinate, I don’t have a girlfriend or child, and I’m not that smart 
My doctor said I have a beautiful mind and I think like a genius, but I didn’t even graduate simple college. John Nash had a doctorates and was a professor at MIT. He went to Princeton for his PhD.
I think at one time, I thought he had Aspergers but now I think he had schizophrenia. He just may have been the lucky few that recover. High IQ and high social functioning improves likelihood of recovering.
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U are always right @darklord…!!! Hahaha!!!
Are u happy now…!!!
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It’s funny because I saw that movie ages before I was diagnosed. And ironically I didn’t identify with him one bit. I definetely do now though.
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I’ve heard and read a number of accounts about him that contradict each other. If you read the book he’s was not very effectual after his illness as after all the Nobel Peace Prize was for something he did beforehand. I’ve heard from psychologists that he was in better shape than that after he recovered and the movie of course glamorized his pre and post recovery periods as far as I know. I didn’t watch the end but knowing Hollywood they probably didn’t make it realistic. I can’t relate to his life at all as he had 2 children a wife and a mistress while i’ve had no significant relationships, and did things with Math that boggle my mind. And my post schizophrenic period has generally had it’s ups and downs but overall has been a downhill slope. And no I haven’t reached the point where i reasoned 100% that the voices are not real. So the answer is no.
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I can relate. When I’m doing math work or any kind of work like programming science. I feel like it’s impossible to solve a single linear equation or percentage problem
I can relate to the schizophrenia part, but not to the brilliant mind part.
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