Thalassa
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Hahaha, I lol'd. John Nash is an interesting example, though. One that kind of refutes schizophrenia as being totally chemical/biolgical. First of all, I don't think that Nash actually hallucinated (not sure though). But the movie definitely exaggerated his illness. Anyways, didn't he just become "unschizophrenic" with time, possibly after a working out of his "confusion"?
His son is also schizo so there is something to be said about that.
I'm related to him, no shit, he's my maternal grandfather's cousin, and YES mental illness runs in that branch of my family. The movie didn't exaggerate his illness, but did romanticize it and make him seem much cooler than he actually was apparently. Of course I report this as second hand news, things that my older relatives have told my mother.
Oh, and no, he didn't become "unschizophrenic"...it's just at the time that he became ill there were not the advances in psychiatric medicine that we have today, and so schizophrenics were much less functional at that time.