Liked the way Beautiful Mind highlighted the strength of the human mind and will. In the movie, John Nash chose to use his own reasoning to help him fight his delusions rather than relying on medicine which crippled his imagination and made him a vegetable.

In some Indian villages and suburbs,simple people saying they hear voices and suddenly talking in different voices are said to be demon/deity-possessed. I have seen them jump up and dance wildly. Maybe they are schizophrenic. Too bad. They are treated like possessed.

Kindly let me know where in Navi Mumbai or Mumbai, rehabilitation is available for my son who is 26 yrs' old, B com Graduate. He is out of work since he lost orientation due to schizophrenia. He suffering from this, since 3 to 4 years! We are living at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai. Economically our status is not sound. Kindly give us some relief.

Thank you in advance,
with regards,

C.R. Sreenivasan

I believe stigma is a great barrier. People don't get their adult children help for this illness because they deny it's even happening - most people I've mentioned this illness to have no real clue of what it is.. they often ask if it is multiple personalities and often they say "people like that should be institutionalized or locked up". when I try to educate them, I've had people [even in my own family] say "I'm not naive" and indicate they believe anyone with mental illness will eventually try to murder innocent people. No one seems to really care unless it directly affects their children or brother or sister directly. Also other people don't seem to want to know- they already have their minds made up and nothing you say can open their mind.. I've also experienced social workers with MSW after their name sometimes give an attitude of looking down at the person with this illness and one in WV gave me such a bleak outlook/prognosis right in front of the person with schizophrenia. I've seen people who learn someone has the illness suddenly seem angry at the person and seem to blame that person for getting ill or to be terrified to even be around someone with this diagnosis. A lot of the blame is to be assigned to the news channels... they only focus on schizophrenia when someone with schizophrenia murders people.. they NEVER report good news about it or how many people with schizophrenia have families or are happy, nice and living everyday lives not hurting anyone.