Remarkable

[vaneramos]

Normally I only watch movies in the company of others, but recently began renting occasional stuff to watch alone. Last night I finally saw A Beautiful Mind. In case you missed or forgot, it's a fictionalized biography of mathematician John Nash, who lives with schizophrenia and won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics.

In true life and in the movie,

Comments

[artricia]

That's interesting about the drugs in the movie . . . . I hadn't known. It was a great film, for all the reasons you say.

Have you read Lincoln's Melancholy? It touches on similar subjects -- what Lincoln did to manage his depression, and how that played out into his presidency. It's fascinating, and very well written. I remember picking up a few tips from the book myself. Whether or not I'm on medication (it's been years, but I've used St. John's Wort a lot in medication's place), I've found behavioral and cognitive approaches to be invaluable to managing my mental state. Nutritional stuff has helped, too: when I was pregnant, I didn't want to start taking meds., so increased my omega threes (flax oil, fish oil), and it had a strong, noticeable effect.

[vaneramos]

I didn't know about Lincoln. That sounds like interesting reading.

And yes, behavioural and cognitive approaches are invaluable. I need to work on those, too!