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 7th
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.
