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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
People with disorders like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, and borderline personality disorder (BPD) rarely reveal their diagnoses to employers, colleagues, or hiring managers.
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Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Bynes’ attorney denied that the former actor had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
—Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
This valuable data includes information from patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and other psychiatric illnesses.
—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
In people with schizophrenia, there is a broader spread of such variation in thickness.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2025
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Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Bynes’ attorney denied that the former actor had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
—Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
This valuable data includes information from patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and other psychiatric illnesses.
—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
In people with schizophrenia, there is a broader spread of such variation in thickness.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for schizophrenia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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An Alzheimer's Association report, released April 29, said the total annual cost of caring for people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia will reach $384 billion in 2025.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is a neurodegenerative condition that can start developing 20 years before symptoms appear.—
Allen Chang,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
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In truth, Joe himself committed all the murders, with Rhys being a manifestation of his own psychosis.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Plus, there is another trial ongoing for Alzheimer's psychosis, which would a big opportunity.—
Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
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People often confuse the paranoia of dementia with the paranoia of conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.—
Dr. Sabooh Mubbashar,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2025
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Cronenberg has made a thriller of justified technological paranoia, of the internet’s myriad parasitic intrusions into the human realm.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2025
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That may sound like a vague virtue, but Dortmund have received a lot of criticism this season — rightly — and that has bred neuroses throughout their team.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Leading a cast and writers’ room riddled with neuroses, his poker face and minimalist reactions have often left a trail of insecure young comedians on edge.—
Maureen Dowd,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Cycling between periods of mania or hypomania – high energy and excitement – and depression can have an enormous impact on a person’s daily life, work, and relationships.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Mar. 2025
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And then fifteen years later, divorce uprooted us all; my family-first ethic hadn’t withstood the episodes of depression and hypomania that, eerily for me, took hold of my husband for a handful of years at midlife.—
Megan Marshall,
The New Yorker,
8 Feb. 2025
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Scotland later created a Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition near the lake to display 500 years of monster mania.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
21 Apr. 2025
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Here’s the breakdown: Sac State crowd adds to sports mania The crowds for the Kings and A’s were expected.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Dominguez has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing two people and grievously wounding a third over the space of five days in April and May 2023.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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However, on April 18, a judge in Fulton County Superior Court dropped the charges against Calabrese-Lewis, ordering that she should be declared not guilty by reason of insanity, citing her mental illness, according to the filing obtained by PEOPLE.—
Nicole Acosta,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Amid the economic instability and mass layoffs in the country, the American workforce is fed up with worrying on a daily basis about losing their jobs.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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With the current economic and global instability continuing to rock industries across the United States, the hospitality sector’s customer expectations have also evolved.—
Xandra Harbet,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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