It works by helping move sugar from the blood into other body tissues where it is used for energy. It also stops the liver from producing more sugar. All of the types of insulin that are available work in this way.

Another theory was that patients were somehow “jolted” out of their mental illness. The hypoglycemia (pathologically low glucose levels) that resulted from ICT made patients extremely restless, sweaty, and liable to further convulsions and “after-shocks”.

Until the discovery of the tranquilizing drugs, variations of insulin-shock therapy (also called insulin-coma therapy) were commonly used in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions.

While in a mental institution, Nash is treated with insulin coma therapy, in which patients are given insulin to induce a comatose state that lasts about 15 to 60 minutes. The results, as shown in the movie, are horrific.Dhuʻl-H. 6, 1426 AH

The therapy itself took place over a number of weeks or months, with patients daily receiving insulin injections that induced a coma-like state persisting for an hour or so before it was reversed by supervising hospital staff with an injection of glucose.Saf. 24, 1440 AH

Insulin shock, otherwise known as insulin coma therapy (ICT), had been developed between 1928 and 1933 by Manfred Sakel of Austria. The treatment involved placing psychotic patients in hypoglycemic coma through administration of dangerously large doses of insulin, which removed glucose from their bloodstreams.Shaw. 23, 1427 AH

With insulin-shock treatment, the patient is given increasingly large doses of insulin, which reduce the sugar content of the blood and bring on a state of coma.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can provide rapid, significant improvements in severe symptoms of several mental health conditions. ECT is used to treat: Severe depression, particularly when accompanied by detachment from reality (psychosis), a desire to commit suicide or refusal to eat.Saf. 3, 1440 AH

Howard S. Mele, a psychiatrist from Princeton who treated John Nash Jr., the Princeton University mathematician and Nobel Prize winner featured in the hit film “A Beautiful Mind,” died Monday at the age of 88.Sha. 19, 1437 AH

Insulin regular (human) side effects

• sweating.
• dizziness or lightheadedness.
• shakiness.
• hunger.
• fast heart rate.
• tingling in your hands, feet, lips, or tongue.
• trouble concentrating or confusion.
• blurred vision.

Insulin shock therapy or insulin coma therapy ( ICT) was a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas over several weeks.

[edit on Wikidata] Insulin shock therapy or insulin coma therapy (ICT) was a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas over several weeks.

In “modified insulin therapy”, used in the treatment of neurosis, patients were given lower (sub-coma) doses of insulin. A few psychiatrists (including Sakel) claimed success rates for insulin coma therapy of over 80% in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Beautiful mind is an American 2001 movie running for 135 minutes; the movie is based on the life of John Nash and wife Alicia Nash. Through the movie, Nash is trying to cope with this mental illness that he was trying to develop, the movie starts when Nash arrives in Princeton University in 1947 with his friend Hansen for a mathematics scholarship.