Homely Scientist

May is Mental Health Month and today (technically it isn’t theme day yet, but it’s close enough) is Sci-Health Theme Day–so you can see where this is going.

Regular readers know that I suffer from depression and have for many years.  I do take medication for it so it’s well controlled at the moment.  I’m also a touch (no, not touched) ADD … it explains a lot doesn’t it.  Regardless I was really loathe to talk about me for this theme day, so I wracked my brain for a bit and then remembered one of my favourite movies (and since the poster is on my wall, I wonder why it took me so long to think of this): A Beautiful Mind.

For those of who haven’t heard of or seen the Oscar-winning movie, it’s about the brilliant mathematician and Nobel laureate John F. Nash (based on the book) who suffered from schizophrenia.  While his mental illness caused him great personal pain and turmoil, it is pretty clear from the movie that it is the very the nature of his brain that made him brilliant.  It was the “flaws” that gave him a unique perspective on the world that lead him to his game theories relating to economic such power.

When I’m frustrated by my own mind.  My own issues with my flaws, I remember John F. Nash, his struggles, and what he was able to accomplish both because of them and despite them

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