In the Movie The Beautiful Mind, Mr John Nash was a mathematical prodigy who had been encountering a second dimension of engaing with a spy. This hallucination was only known later in life. He was diagnosed to have schizophrenia and hallucination was partly a symptom for this mental ‘disorder’. Schizophrenia also impedes motivation. It is estimated that about 1 percent of the world population is affected by this disorder of the mind.

Hospital data in the region Wuhu in China showed that children who were born between 1959 and 1961 later developed schizophrenia as during this period there were famine in that area. Could prenatal poverty could have caused an inherent defect in the genes of those children who have later developed full blown schizoprenia?

Scientist are still finding the root cause of this problem. A neurotransmitter known as dopamine is produced in the Ventral Tegmental Area (midbrain) where it is synthesised and released to the part of the forebrain known as Nucleus accumbens. This is how the brain present a ‘gift’ to the ‘self’ when a person experience elation or pleasure. When a person has achieved something dopamine is produced in the brain. Schizophrenia is related to too much release of this dopamine in the brain. Creative people also develop schizophrenia later in life. Is too much achievement bad for the personality?

Is schizophrenia a disease in the first place? Or is it the working system of the brain to protect what you have created or achieved? But we are not so ‘lucky’ to have born with a silver spoon. Living is all about struggle and survival. It is all about competion. Is nature playing a game with the reality? Or is the brain ‘commanding’ to see what it intend to see? When we have achieved something is it not ‘OK’ to secure and protect it? The law of the jungle -’The survival of the fittest’- has to be re written as this basis of living is actually destroying our personality. Competition is not good anymore.

I believe the antidote of ‘schizophreniac’ is to become philanthropist. At least we will die as a ‘giver’ known to this world. The reality of this world is not the truth. What we see now is a fantasy. What we are going to see in the future is not the final truth.

It is the brain that commands you to see the ‘reality’ where there is no one reality.