John Nash, nobel prize winner in economic sciences has died

John Nash has died. Besides being a brilliant man who won a nobel prize he was once diagnosed as schizophrenic and became very famous for that fact as well, when the movie "A Beautiful Mind" came out. John Nash has died. Besides being a brilliant man who won a nobel prize he was once diagnosed as schizophrenic and became very famous for that fact as well, when the movie "A Beautiful Mind" came out. -- I am doing this post in his memory. I’m recovering from a nasty stomach bug so it’s being put together quickly. Included is footage where John Nash once again clarifies that he didn't take psychiatric drugs for most of his life. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

May 25, 2015

Video interview with John Nash of Beautiful Mind fame (with commentary)

John Nash in the below video says explicitly he never used psychiatric drugs again after an initial period of crisis and the movie was purposely misleading because the screenwriter's mother was a psychologist enamored with psych meds and feared people would go off their meds if they knew the truth. Horrifying, isn't that? So, John Nash recovered from what is often labeled schizophrenia. The fact is there are countless others who also recover every day and are simply forgotten -- the system and those who support long-term maintenance psychotropic drug use denies they were ever sick if they are mentioned. But this is untrue. People recover and move on from such crisis all the time. There is a long list of such folks who share such stories here on Beyond Meds. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

May 7, 2013

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