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a very serious mental illness in which someone cannot think or behave normally and often experiences delusions
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Recent Examples of schizophrenia
Defense attorneys presented their case as Alissa having slowly devolved into insanity because of his undiagnosed, unmedicated schizophrenia.
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Andi Babineau, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
By Alice Park October 30, 2024 7:43 AM EDT
People with schizophrenia now have a new drug to treat the neuropsychiatric condition.
—Alice Park, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
He was hospitalized several times for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and often wore military-style boots (like the print found at at least one of the crime scenes).
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
The Osceola County Sheriff Department's initial missing person poster noted that Miranda-Rosa lived with schizophrenia, a disclosure the family didn’t agree to and claimed was a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violation.
—Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2024
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Andi Babineau, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
By Alice Park October 30, 2024 7:43 AM EDT
People with schizophrenia now have a new drug to treat the neuropsychiatric condition.
—Alice Park, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
He was hospitalized several times for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and often wore military-style boots (like the print found at at least one of the crime scenes).
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
The Osceola County Sheriff Department's initial missing person poster noted that Miranda-Rosa lived with schizophrenia, a disclosure the family didn’t agree to and claimed was a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violation.
—Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
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He has since been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which is a progressive brain condition.Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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The symptoms only get worse from there as the disease progresses: dementia, speech and vision issues, and Parkinson's-like symptoms with muscle motor control.New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Psychiatric problems — marked anxiety or panic attacks progressing to temporary psychosis and even schizophrenia-like psychotic illness — are presenting more frequently in emergency rooms.Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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The burden of justice:Delphi murder case jurors will face unimaginable pressure, life-changing decision Defense attorneys have countered that Allen is an innocent and mentally fragile man whose months-long isolation at Westville drove him to psychosis and to giving false confessions.Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2024
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Outdated technology, codenames, and paranoia have marked the better part of the last two decades at Google (GOOGL-2.04%).Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2024
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In such a world, where no leaders could trust their most solid intelligence, their most primal instincts, or even the basis of reality itself, governments could not be blamed for acting from a position of maximum paranoia and suspicion.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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If only his many neuroses didn’t keep getting in the way.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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Explores generational neuroses in an Indian family.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
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Cyclothymia symptoms are less-intense hypomania and depression that do not meet clinical criteria for hypomania or depression.Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2024
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In essays, Goodfellow details antidepressant-induced hypomania.Michelle Pugle, Health, 23 Jan. 2023
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My friends in Los Angeles were texting me — the token New York Yankees fan for most of them — as their elation grew, error after Yankees error, mental blunder after mental blunder, leading to greater and greater Dodgers mania.Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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In bipolar 1, moods range from extreme elevation (mania) to depression.Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2024
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Cutting Medicare is insanity, especially with our high elderly population.Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2024
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Everyone else gets to turn off the TV and forget about politics, which has reached this next-level, dark insanity.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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The fentanyl epidemic suggests that maybe things aren’t really so good here—that instability, violence, and suffering are just below the surface, even though unemployment is under four per cent.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
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Despite international condemnation, the threat remains persistent, highlighting the ongoing instability in Yemen and its impact on global shipping.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.
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