John Nash's Schizophrenia

John marries Alicia Larde.
He finds out she is pregnant.
He begins to feel a sense of anxiety and self doubt, the beginnings of his schizophrenia.

John attends a New Years Eve costume party as a baby.
He begins to receive "messages" from outer space, encoded in articles from the New York Times.
Claimed he was on the cover of Life magazine disguised as Pope John XXXIII.
Notices men wearing red ties on campus and believes they are members of a secret communist organization.
Turned down a position at the University of Chicago as he had already scheduled to be Emperor of Antarctica.

Painted Black Spots all over his bedroom wall.
Sent to the McLean Hospital and given an injection of Thorazine and psychoanalysis. Discharged 50 days after admittance.
Goes to Europe with his wife, but leaves her behind. Attempts to gain asylum as a refugee. He is denied and deported back to America, a trip which he claims he was chained up for, but is not true.

John is committed to the Trenton State Hospital, a mental asylum.
He is treated with insulin induced coma therapy, after which his symptoms diminish and he is discharged six months later.
Felt a sense of loss. "Rational thought imposes a limit on a person's relation to the cosmos."
Traveled to Europe again to gain asylum.
While there, he started sending nonsensical letters and postcards back home.

Alicia successfully files for divorce in December.

Started meeting with a psychologist who prescribed anti-psychotic medicine.
He seemed to improve at a slow pace.
He stopped taking the drugs as they interfered with his clarity of mind and connection to the world.
He gained a chorus of voices in his head.

Moves back in with Alicia who promises to never commit him against his will again.
Began writing formulas and secret codes on blackboards on campus at Princeton.

Began to see a slight improvement in mental health. When asked, he said he had merely decided to be sane again. He decided to ignore the voices and hallucinations. This improvement continued all through the 80s, until he had attained his pre-schizophrenia mental capacities.

Dies in a car crash.