A Not So Beautiful Mind?

A Beautiful Mind is the first time I ever heard of/ actually learned about schizophrenia.  In the movie, John Nash (Russell Crowe) is a math genius who believes that he is enlisted by the military to crack some code and if he doesn't they will get him.  When I first saw this, I was in 7^th grade and my health teacher showed it in class as an example as schizophrenia.  I haven’t seen it since then, but I remember thinking that it was a really good movie.  I hadn't really given it any thought until this week and I started to think that at age 11, I believed that Russell Crowe was schizophrenia.  I never thought that it may not be like that for all people.  Now as a psychology major, I know that not all schizophrenia is like that, although, it is the most common.  There are five different types of schizophrenia: paranoid-type, disorganized-type, catatonic type, undifferentiated-type and residual-type.  Each of the types is respectfully named for the main symptom.  WebMD describes the basics that makes up each of the five types, but PsychCentral takes the cake. From their screening test  to all their tabs on the left, there is all sorts of other links (within their website) that really go into schizophrenia.  I found it really helpful to have all the information in one place. This year I have really fallen in love with youtube and psychcentral.  Although, they aren't my only learning tools, they certainly help to enhance anything I read about.  

The video above is a simulation of paranoid schizophrenia.  The person believes the weather is out to get him and everyone is helping.  I don’t know if it actually goes like this, but this video is merely a simulation of what it could be like and it helped me grasp it a little better.