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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
For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry.
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New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
Psychoeducation, which means teaching families how to recognize symptoms and triggers, and family involvement, are both crucial parts of treatment for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
—Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Gucci Mane is sharing his experience after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
—Vivian Kwarm, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Ongoing sleep disruption raises the risk of depression, suicidal thoughts and flare-ups of conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
—Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for schizophrenia
New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
Psychoeducation, which means teaching families how to recognize symptoms and triggers, and family involvement, are both crucial parts of treatment for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
—Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Gucci Mane is sharing his experience after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
—Vivian Kwarm, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Ongoing sleep disruption raises the risk of depression, suicidal thoughts and flare-ups of conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
—Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for schizophrenia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Future studies will look at whether stabilizing blood pressure—through adjusting medication timing, regular exercise or stress management—could slow brain aging and reduce dementia risk.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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In Memory, Chastain played a social worker and single mother whose structured life is thrown into chaos when a young man dealing with dementia, played by Peter Sarsgaard, follows her home from their high school reunion.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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While the drug did come up slightly short of expectations, the real test, and next major catalyst for the stock, will be its trial data for Alzheimer's psychosis.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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While some Christian creators seem to be taking the demonic allegations quite seriously, the Hatch backlash has become a bit of a meme online, with users accusing the women of being in religious psychosis or just flat out ridiculous.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
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His eerie behavior soon infects the quiet rhythms of their rural town, sparking paranoia, violence, and death.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Held captive in a shadowy basement, Michelle’s ordeal blurs the line between paranoia and revelation on Teddy’s remote ranch, where his hive of bees becomes a haunting metaphor for control.—
Tiana DeNicola,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
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Assembled by a team of special technicians at a dedicated facility in Tochigi, Japan, the NSX offered a neurosis-free driving experience on a daily basis.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, my neuroses can rack up unnecessary expense.—
Kristen Geil,
Outside,
27 Oct. 2025
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Boes was working with a patient who had a rare disorder called peduncular hallucinosis, in which damage to the thalamus, a structure at the center of the brain, causes visual hallucinations.—
Grace Huckins,
Wired,
17 Aug. 2020
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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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Without Jamie Lloyd’s cameras there to do close-ups, Scherzinger played the anti-heroine just a little less for obsessive mania and more for pure Barbra-style butter.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
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Every market era has its mania.—
Drew O’Connor,
Nashville Tennessean,
2 Nov. 2025
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Ellis has a history of schizophrenia, and her defense attorneys had entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, but the jury ultimately rejected that claim, per the Cleveland Plain Dealer.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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Maybe Clark can dust off Scrooge comparisons if this insanity lasts until Christmas.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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