Yoann's response writing to " Approaches to Psychological Therapy "

I have chosen to answer the first question and I want to talk a little about schizophrenia. This illlness interests me because I have seen a movie one month ago which dealt with this disorder. The movie is " A beautiful mind " by Ron Howard. It is about John Forbes Nash Jr's life. He was a great Mathematician who studied at Priceston's university in 1947 and who made huge progress in economical mathematics. This movie has been adapted from his own biography. Nash was brillant but he was also schizophrenic and he couldn't make the difference between what was reality and what came from his mind. Through this film I could have guessed how difficult it is for a schizophrenic to try to understand the difference between reality and imagination. Actually person with schizophrenia strongly believe in things or people who come directly from their imagination and they can't bear at first that other people don't believe them. Moreover their treatment by medicines causes them a lot of side effects and if they try to stop it they have to start afresh because hallucinations reappears. We can also see, in that movie, the difficulty of bearing the other's glances, the dificulty of feeling " abnormal ", and we can feel how stronger you need to be to be cured from this illness as you can keep seeing hallucinations all your life. So you need to learn to live with them and to persuade yourself that they are only hallucinations.