@Aurelius710, I'm sorry to read that your mother has developed a cancerous growth. Sending supportive wishes to you and your family. I hope that if it is just a small growth that it will be relatively easy to destroy.

For the first time in about two years, or so, I actually had a month of positive elevated mood. It was just a mild episode that didn't do much harm, other than me stepping away from therapy. Now I don't know what to do about that. Despite my 650 mg of Seroquel, I actually lost 8 lbs (3.5 kg). I was also doing lots of exercise, enthusiastically. However, it seems that the weekend has brought deflation.

I also saw the movie A Beautiful Mind, several years back. It was worth watching, and the performances were good. However, the story was definitely fictionalized a lot. I never read the book, so can't compare it. My husband and I know a bit more than most about John Nash, himself. He lived near Princeton University, where he used to study and then later "worked" as a special tutor in the math department, up until his (and his wife's) deaths from a car accident. [In a taxi, not wearing seat belts, on the way home from the airport.] We used to see him (mostly), and occasionally his wife and adult son around town. He didn't drive, so he walked a lot. Once my husband (a European) picked him up hiking, and gave him a ride to the Dinky train station which was a short train shuttle to a larger one within walking-distance of his house, which was right near my former workplace. He said to my husband "I'm John Nash, part of the math department." There were many stories (some rather embarrassing types) about his behavior at the university, yet that didn't prevent him from being part of that community. From all I heard, John Nash mainly suffered from auditory hallucinations and delusions, while the movie featured many visual ones, for cinematic sake. Also, I heard that he eventually stopped taking medications, at some point. That did NOT end his hallucinations or negative symptoms, but they say that he found a way to live with them, to a degree. But again, that didn't make his behavior at all properly functioning, and therefore hurt his career for the rest of his life.