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In the movie, "A Beautiful Mind", the main character John Nash suffers from schizophrenia. The movie follows his journey through graduate school at Princeton University with his friend and roommate, Charles. During this time, you find out that John is really intellectual and smart, but not very social. After graduate school, he accepts an appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with two of his friends from graduate school. This is where John meets his future wife, Alicia. While he is at MIT, his hallucinations begin. He believes a defense agent asks him to decipher an enemy encryption code at the Pentagon. He also believes the Soviet's were after him. John's friends and wife realize his paranoid behavior, and discover that he is delusional. He is put in a psychiatric facility, and given medicine. He is released on the terms that he will continue to take his medicine, but after experiencing some negative effects, he decides to stop one day. John then......

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