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May 6, 2006

beautful mind

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Mental illness is a disorder of the brain that results in a disruption of a person's thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others. For someone who's never had a mental illness, it may be hard to imagine what life would be like for someone who does. The film "A Beautiful Mind" is about a mathematician, John Nash, who suffers from schizophrenia. Through his anguish, we gain knowledge of a life with mental illness. It affects every component of your life, and the lives of those close to you.
The film opens in the late 1940s at Princeton, where John Nash is a young graduate student in mathematics. There Nash does some brilliant original work, but its importance is not immediately widely recognized. His best friend is his roommate, Charles Herman (fictional). In the early 1950s Nash takes a job at M.I.T. that involves both working at the (fictional) Wheeler Defense Labs and teaching classes. He believes......

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