John Nash Revisited

He's still alive. I didn't know that!

After reading about Amy Bishop I began wondering about Nash again. I've read his book and then saw the movie, but I didn't know about his attempts to live outside of the country and I didn't remember what his symptoms were of paranoia schitz.

Some of it, sounds defo schitz, because there are random uncontrolled actions, such as writing on a blackboard at night but then I think, no, even einstein kept odd hours. It means nothing to be working on theories at different times than normal people would.

So then I read about how he was seeing all these men in "red ties". In my opinion, if he was working in government intelligence, in high security, and was also bisexual, there could have been plenty of people willing to wear "red ties" on purpose, to freak him out and try to drive him nuts or sound nuts.

The only part, to me, that sounds like, "Okay, maybe..." is that he admits he hears voices. Audible voices. Not like impressions that I get or others get, where we have an idea to mind, but he heard voices like someone was next to him. So, I am actually going to say this has happened with many enlightened religious persons, even Samuel, but in general, no. I think it's the clearest thing.

On the other hand, the movie made it sound like he saw things or hallucinated and he says he never did. So the only thing that really stands out is voices.

Because to me, it's plausible that, during the cold war, some persons in intelligence or who are thought to have important information, might be best disposed of, at least temporarily, by discrediting them and making them out to be nuts.

He does sound like he probably had a problem, but I wonder if initially he really didn't and people actually were able to sort of drive him temporarily nuts to where he doubted himself finally or then the body kicked in with a stress reaction. I don't know.

There really are true cases of paranoia, it's just that after what I've been through,, I know how mental illness accusations are used improperly .

I guess John Nash was only able to free himself, from the stigma and being discredited, by finally using email to connect with other people who could help promote his ideas and vouch for him on his mental health.

Viva la internet.

Can you imagine? He was able to connect through the internet in the 80s, but imagine if he couldn't. Maybe he would have gone unnoticed, lonely, and thought nuts for the rest of his life. But he was proactive, and used the internet to connect to people and get ahead of a bad rap, or, former history. I wonder if he would have been a blogger when he was younger. Probably not, being more of a math type.