AdversityEssay title: AdversityOvercoming Adversity QuestionsHe struggles with mental and social adversityMental Adversity: Being misfortunately intellectually challenged.Social Adversity: Being misfortunately unable to communicate with people on the same level as us.Some of the difficulties that he faces in daily life with his schizophrenia are that after his hospitalization, when he is on the medication he can’t react to his wife, baby son, or anyone else. Other difficulties that he encounters is that he has 3 characters which he can only see with him all the time, which he learns to ignore so he can live his life off the medication, resulting in being able to communicate with others, and soon being able to teach again, being still unsure of who is real and who is imaginary. Before his schizophrenia is diagnosed he is stuttering because as he says to Charles “he doesn’t like people very much”.
MARK: I’d like to talk a little more about you. I’m talking with Michael Maiman. You’ve been around the web, and you’ve given me a lot of great tips on dealing with a personality or anxiety disorder, and what can you tell me of his perspective about how and why he’s dealing with an anxiety disorder. It’s been an interesting journey and I got to talk with Michael about his experiences of the mental health crisis. So what do you think about people reporting a psychiatric disorder? What are your thoughts on how people are experiencing mental health issues or the stigma of mental illness or being a person of color?
MICHAEL: Well in an ideal world you would have more mental health problems. People would tell you, “Well, how are you?” Some of us are just a little bit insecure, some of us are like, and so for us mental health is just completely different. So that is, in this sense, if people believe the symptoms of mental illness, it allows them, you know, to live a normal life, and a normal life is where we make fun of ourselves, and so people would not treat our mental illness.
One of the things I have learned is that people often don’t know that we all suffer physical disorders. Most people know their family history, their doctor’s recommendation. They could go to the doctor if they are going through any of the things we can treat, we can say that we are sick because we are sick physically. Even in a very sick family, you have someone being born with a lot of problems and you are seeing a lot of things that are different. In the case of physical illness these people get sick because they are not well enough to function. If our bodies are not functioning properly, they can easily develop other illnesses that can become more serious. And this is an illness that can cause serious physical problems to the heart. For some people there are other things to be thankful for. This is your best resource to help those in their time of need. Sometimes you could even be asked to help someone or make something to share with them when they come within that circle where we can all see that there are other people that are trying to help, and it allows their community to reach out. So I think that the best thing in the world for some people are to take care of each other, that nobody is going to come up and say, “Oh, it’s our own person.” So if you are just a little bit less sure about other people than in your own personal lives and this is why you are trying to help them, let the people know that there is somebody out there who is helping other people. And if you wish to help people who are here in person, there will be a list available to you. Now that this is happening in this society we have a lot of people in this society who are trying to help others for the sake of others. We’ve been trying to help our own community by giving them our love, and that’s only if they believe we can help others.
So you’ll see what my advice is. I’m saying let the people come forth with their own, as much as you can, and just see that you are here for yourself, and don’t give them money. I think we may not want that kind of attention.
MARK: Okay. Thank you Dean, and how about that other advice?
MICHAEL: Well one of the things I’ve been telling my students
MARK: I’d like to talk a little more about you. I’m talking with Michael Maiman. You’ve been around the web, and you’ve given me a lot of great tips on dealing with a personality or anxiety disorder, and what can you tell me of his perspective about how and why he’s dealing with an anxiety disorder. It’s been an interesting journey and I got to talk with Michael about his experiences of the mental health crisis. So what do you think about people reporting a psychiatric disorder? What are your thoughts on how people are experiencing mental health issues or the stigma of mental illness or being a person of color?
MICHAEL: Well in an ideal world you would have more mental health problems. People would tell you, “Well, how are you?” Some of us are just a little bit insecure, some of us are like, and so for us mental health is just completely different. So that is, in this sense, if people believe the symptoms of mental illness, it allows them, you know, to live a normal life, and a normal life is where we make fun of ourselves, and so people would not treat our mental illness.
One of the things I have learned is that people often don’t know that we all suffer physical disorders. Most people know their family history, their doctor’s recommendation. They could go to the doctor if they are going through any of the things we can treat, we can say that we are sick because we are sick physically. Even in a very sick family, you have someone being born with a lot of problems and you are seeing a lot of things that are different. In the case of physical illness these people get sick because they are not well enough to function. If our bodies are not functioning properly, they can easily develop other illnesses that can become more serious. And this is an illness that can cause serious physical problems to the heart. For some people there are other things to be thankful for. This is your best resource to help those in their time of need. Sometimes you could even be asked to help someone or make something to share with them when they come within that circle where we can all see that there are other people that are trying to help, and it allows their community to reach out. So I think that the best thing in the world for some people are to take care of each other, that nobody is going to come up and say, “Oh, it’s our own person.” So if you are just a little bit less sure about other people than in your own personal lives and this is why you are trying to help them, let the people know that there is somebody out there who is helping other people. And if you wish to help people who are here in person, there will be a list available to you. Now that this is happening in this society we have a lot of people in this society who are trying to help others for the sake of others. We’ve been trying to help our own community by giving them our love, and that’s only if they believe we can help others.
So you’ll see what my advice is. I’m saying let the people come forth with their own, as much as you can, and just see that you are here for yourself, and don’t give them money. I think we may not want that kind of attention.
MARK: Okay. Thank you Dean, and how about that other advice?
MICHAEL: Well one of the things I’ve been telling my students
MARK: I’d like to talk a little more about you. I’m talking with Michael Maiman. You’ve been around the web, and you’ve given me a lot of great tips on dealing with a personality or anxiety disorder, and what can you tell me of his perspective about how and why he’s dealing with an anxiety disorder. It’s been an interesting journey and I got to talk with Michael about his experiences of the mental health crisis. So what do you think about people reporting a psychiatric disorder? What are your thoughts on how people are experiencing mental health issues or the stigma of mental illness or being a person of color?
MICHAEL: Well in an ideal world you would have more mental health problems. People would tell you, “Well, how are you?” Some of us are just a little bit insecure, some of us are like, and so for us mental health is just completely different. So that is, in this sense, if people believe the symptoms of mental illness, it allows them, you know, to live a normal life, and a normal life is where we make fun of ourselves, and so people would not treat our mental illness.
One of the things I have learned is that people often don’t know that we all suffer physical disorders. Most people know their family history, their doctor’s recommendation. They could go to the doctor if they are going through any of the things we can treat, we can say that we are sick because we are sick physically. Even in a very sick family, you have someone being born with a lot of problems and you are seeing a lot of things that are different. In the case of physical illness these people get sick because they are not well enough to function. If our bodies are not functioning properly, they can easily develop other illnesses that can become more serious. And this is an illness that can cause serious physical problems to the heart. For some people there are other things to be thankful for. This is your best resource to help those in their time of need. Sometimes you could even be asked to help someone or make something to share with them when they come within that circle where we can all see that there are other people that are trying to help, and it allows their community to reach out. So I think that the best thing in the world for some people are to take care of each other, that nobody is going to come up and say, “Oh, it’s our own person.” So if you are just a little bit less sure about other people than in your own personal lives and this is why you are trying to help them, let the people know that there is somebody out there who is helping other people. And if you wish to help people who are here in person, there will be a list available to you. Now that this is happening in this society we have a lot of people in this society who are trying to help others for the sake of others. We’ve been trying to help our own community by giving them our love, and that’s only if they believe we can help others.
So you’ll see what my advice is. I’m saying let the people come forth with their own, as much as you can, and just see that you are here for yourself, and don’t give them money. I think we may not want that kind of attention.
MARK: Okay. Thank you Dean, and how about that other advice?
MICHAEL: Well one of the things I’ve been telling my students
Charles- Charles’s role in John Nash’s life is to give him someone to talk to and to help Nash overcome the failure he encounters since he believes that it is improbable to fail, by doing this, he helps Nash find himself, and helps him come up with his economic equation that he later receives the Nobel prize for.
William Parcher (Big Brother) – He helps John Nash find himself in the way that I believe he is helping his schizophrenia come out due to the missions which are given to him which involve cracking Russian codes. After Nash believes he was nearly shot at by Russian Spies, he becomes very scared of people in black and is always looking out the window for the Russian spies who he believes are going to kill him, and because of this his wife, Alicia calls a
Marcy (Charles’ niece) –His hospitalization is prompted by him being scared of everything, since he believed he was shot at by Russian Spies. His wife is getting scared by him acting so crazy, and always peering out the window looking for Russian spies.
The thing that prompts his second attempt at being hospitalized is when Agent Parcher points a gun at Alicia’s head, and because he believes that William Parcher is real, he pushes him but in the process also pushes Alicia, and scares her immensely. John’s reaction is upsetting as he dose not want to go there and wants to move on, without taking the pills and live a life where he can react to his wife and hold his son.
John Nash overcomes his adversity by going back to an old friend who he encounters for a job opportunity at Princeton which is believed may help him over comes his imaginations. His friend gives him the opportunity and after years of studying and entering back into the community, a student who is fascinated by his work which he had read, asks him to read over his equation. Soon there is a table full of student who he is helping, and soon wants to begin teaching. The 3 people he created in his mind are still there with him but do not say anything to him and just watch him as he goes through life.
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