I’m up late writing my psychopathology paper on Schizophrenia for Psychology…. It’s giving me a headache as I face my worst writer’s block ever.

I’m supposed to be using examples from “A Beautiful Mind”, explaining if the media’s portrayal of the disorder is correct.

Here’s an excerpt from the paper–

“Schizophrenia is defined as a psychotic disorder and includes five different subtypes—paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, undifferentiated and residual. Nash suffered from paranoid type Schizophrenia because although he experienced hallucinations and delusions, he did not suffer from disorganized thinking or flat affect.
To be diagnosed with Schizophrenia, DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) has several diagnostic characteristics. The most important says that at least two of the following symptoms must be present; delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and disorganized or catatonic behavior.”

I was about to say I was going insane trying to write this paper but then I thought how disturbing it is to say I’m being driving insane by a paper which is well, about insanity (although that term is in disuse, psychopathology is preferred over insanity–being PC….).

I guess I’ll just go back to writing.