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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
Is There No Place on Earth For Me? — a feature Turturro writes, directs and stars in — looks into the mind of Sylvia Frumkin, a woman trapped in the grips of schizophrenia, as her family struggles to navigate the maze of the mental health system during a blackout in New York.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had synthetic marijuana in his system during his time of death according to the Associated Press.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
Those who live with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often require consistent resources like case management, medication, therapy and housing.
—Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had synthetic marijuana in his system during his time of death according to the Associated Press.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
Those who live with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often require consistent resources like case management, medication, therapy and housing.
—Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
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Heming Willis, who has become a vocal advocate for the caregiver community since Willis' frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, also posted a tribute to Moore on her Instagram stories.Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Shannon Amos was not able to provide documentation of a diagnosis of dementia.Elizabeth Maline, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
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The center wasn’t equipped to treat people with schizophrenia or psychosis disorders, according to Haelle.Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Jan. 2025
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In 2014, Congress began earmarking funds for states to establish programs for first-episode psychosis, to be provided at no out-of-pocket cost to patients.Ellen Barry, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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The Senators’ arguments and demands were a mixture of Cold War paranoia and savvy politics.Duncan Money / Made by History, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
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As tensions rise both at home and in his professional life, the disappearance of a gun becomes a pivotal moment in the story upping the ante on the film’s tension as Iman’s mistrust and paranoia, even of his own family, builds.Jamie Lang, Variety, 3 Jan. 2025
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In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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His Larson is all limbs, all neurosis, beaming with aggressive affection at the sight of urban beauty and crumpling into self-pitying shame when his ruthless career focus is called out.Rory Doherty, Vulture, 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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Foreman theater answered this call by creating dreamscapes that eluded our intellect’s mania for control.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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At the height of her mania, Flaherty rose at 4 a.m. to write.Molly Young, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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Weeks later, more insanity ensued, the 50th home run ball selling for $4.39 million at auction, the highest price ever paid for any ball in any sport.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Germain, who teaches law at Syracuse University in New York, said that, given the weight of evidence, insanity is likely the only defense that will work.David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
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Social unrest will become more frequent, with mass protests and political instability becoming the norm in affected regions.Amir Husain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Beyond physical environmental damage, the growth imperative and the necessity to maximize profits also incentivize rising wealth inequality and social instability.Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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