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He probably shouldn't be. He had severe issues with schizophrenia and did a bunch of things which were far from virtuous. It's a shame that A Beautiful Mind chose to downplay those aspects to the extent that they did as it served nobody's interest to have him whitewashed to that extent.
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I hope you found somebody. Schizophrenia is a hardcore disorder, fortunately, therapy and medications are both much, much better than they used to be. The medications don't drug patients to anywhere near the extent they used to and in some cases, the side effects aren't even bothersome.
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@JosephEHall-bl2el Possibly, the outlook for that isn't so good, but I found that the worst of my schizoaffective went away with tons of cognitive behavioral therapy. It's not like cured cured, but most of it except for the disorganized thinking has gone and stayed gone for over a decade. That being said, the outlook without medication isn't good and reductions in medication should be made slowly and cautiously with plenty of support and a qualified medical professional overseeing the process.
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@DrTraceyMarks I think that's why therapy was so successful with my schizoaffective disorder. I had good doctors, cutting edge group therapy and a ton of CBT, and today I've been free of meds for over a decade. But, it took years of work and I had to have the intestinal fortitude to just accept that most of my life experience was probably not real and to accept that there could be consequences if the psychosis wasn't really psychosis. I completely get why the diagnoses are so devastating, as it's asking a lot of anybody to accept that basically their entire existence might not be real and that this other reality is real, even though there's major flaws with that as well. I do have some difficulties with understanding my life before a certain age, but it gets complicated by the fact that I had done some legitimately amazing things where there is actual documentation to support that it happened, but some of it I'm not even sure if it happened or not despite being years before any psychotic symptoms were identified.
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I used to have that problem years ago. I've since recovered enough that I no longer get that at all. TBH, I miss them, it's really weird because at the time it would get so loud that I couldn't hear anything else that was going on and it made it nearly impossible to socialize, but now that they've been gone for so long, I kind of miss them. For me, the only thing, other than medication, that helped that was focusing on actual music as intently as possible, it made it very difficult for the brain to make the hallucinations when the neurons were busy processing actual sound.
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