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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
However, despite this, supplementing with mangosteen pericarp extract does not improve cognitive outcomes in people with schizophrenia.
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Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 7 Aug. 2025
In an appeal, his attorney said he was also diagnosed with a chronic ambulatory psychotic disturbance with schizophrenia, paranoia and mania from previous brain injuries that he self-medicated with alcohol and drugs.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The attorney of the fourth and latest suspect arrested in connection to the Cincinnati fight claims his client has schizophrenia.
—Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2025
Family members said Valdez suffered from schizophrenia and had been in and out of various hospitals across the previous 18 years.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 July 2025
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Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 7 Aug. 2025
In an appeal, his attorney said he was also diagnosed with a chronic ambulatory psychotic disturbance with schizophrenia, paranoia and mania from previous brain injuries that he self-medicated with alcohol and drugs.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The attorney of the fourth and latest suspect arrested in connection to the Cincinnati fight claims his client has schizophrenia.
—Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2025
Family members said Valdez suffered from schizophrenia and had been in and out of various hospitals across the previous 18 years.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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The legendary actor retired after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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The testing confirmed her diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and aphasia, the outlet reported.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The big event is late-stage trial data from a study examining the drug’s potential benefit to Alzheimer’s psychosis patients, expected to be released later this year.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
31 July 2025
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In the genre-blending two-hour film, Lawrence plays a new mother who develops postpartum depression and begins going in and out of psychosis.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2025
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Those struggles included paranoia and delusional thinking, Torres said: Gutierrez believed people were watching her, that someone hacked her electronic accounts, and that her husband had taken out a life insurance policy and wanted to kill her.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
11 Aug. 2025
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The town is left to navigate the lingering effects of trauma through horror, paranoia and a touch of existential humor.—
Itzel Luna,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Aug. 2025
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Not only was part two different in the neurosis of a pop singer, but the Melrose lot sold it on scares (in addition to wicked grinning people showing up at major events).—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 June 2025
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Agnes is socially competent, even charismatic, but beset by neuroses that seem genuinely frustrating to her, not the self-satisfied post-Woody Allen solipsism common to auteurs of this ilk.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 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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Fox also carried Celine’s FIFA World Cup Hobo Bag, originally released in 2002 — pre-Philo, post-logo mania, and during a brief era when football and fashion shared a color palette.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
5 Aug. 2025
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That means going beyond tests for self-harm and deliberately simulating interactions involving conditions like mania, psychosis, and OCD to assess how the models respond.—
Robert Hart,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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Kittle’s defense attorney revealed his client is a paranoid schizophrenic and was previously found not guilty on prior charges by reason of insanity.—
Peter D'Abrosca , Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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For all his insanity, his base is energized, and behind him.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
30 July 2025
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In a time when inflation, student loan debt, and job instability make the future feel uncertain, both women stress that estate planning is more—not less—urgent.—
Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Failing to respond could risk plunging the rest of the country into violence and instability.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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