Yoda: I don't know if it truly would be considered a recovery from schizophrenia but at the very least I think John Nash learned how to minimize the effects of the disease. What more could one ask for? He is a Nobel Economics laureate and his story is told in the movie "A Beautiful Mind".
John Nash has probably served as a mentor to countless individuals who carry the label of "schizophrenic". One of the misleading details about his personal recovery however is that medication contributed to his eventual recovery...
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In the movie, Nash -- just before he receives a Nobel Prize -- speaks of taking "newer medications." The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has praised the film's director, Ron Howard, for showing the "vital role of medication" in Nash's recovery. But as Sylvia Nasar notes in her biography of Nash, on which the movie is loosely based, this brilliant mathematician stopped taking antipsychotic drugs in 1970 and slowly recovered over two decades. Nasar concluded that Nash's refusal to take drugs "may have been fortunate" because their deleterious effects "would have made his gentle re-entry into the world of mathematics a near impossibility."
Source: NAMI: John Nash - Recovery Without Drugs
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I can only imagine that if he ever showed up at schizophrenia.com to share that detail, he would be hounded out of there by the moderation team.
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