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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
Gein was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, per A&E Crime + Investigation.
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Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia after he was taken into custody.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2025
The show largely focuses on Ed’s mental illness and his undiagnosed schizophrenia.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
This poor man, who had undiagnosed schizophrenia in these giant sweeping landscapes with just the wind and frozen corn, and no one to talk to, an abusive mother, a brother who’s out on the lam.
—William Earl, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
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Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia after he was taken into custody.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2025
The show largely focuses on Ed’s mental illness and his undiagnosed schizophrenia.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
This poor man, who had undiagnosed schizophrenia in these giant sweeping landscapes with just the wind and frozen corn, and no one to talk to, an abusive mother, a brother who’s out on the lam.
—William Earl, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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According to her death certificate, Joan died from dementia.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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In a cruel irony, the chaos of homelessness that forces people to prioritize survival, combined with health conditions such as physical disabilities, dementia or serious mental illness, often collude to prevent patients from engaging with the very systems that could end their homelessness.—
Sarah Stella,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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Linda’s unraveling escalates when her troubled client Caroline (Danielle Macdonald) emails her a video of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001 after developing postpartum psychosis.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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And those who use it regularly are more prone to depression, psychosis, and memory loss.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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The film, a political fable, is about Marcel, a widower, a quiet man seeking refuge in a safe place, and a place of safety to raise his young son, while paranoia reigns around him.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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By weaving Hartley's story into the narrative, Murphy explored the fear and paranoia that surrounded rural Wisconsin during the time of Gein’s actual crimes.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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In isolation, the scenario is an archetypal neurosis long familiar to Asian American men, often cast near the bottom of the dating ladder in the United States.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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Americans are particularly susceptible to these neuroses.—
Franklin Schneider,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 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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Curious how those deeper fears will play into his Tecca mania.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
13 Oct. 2025
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Her 41-year-old daughter, Alexx, who came of age at the height of boy band mania, insisted on tagging along.—
Todd Longwell,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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Working with Chhaya clients who were facing foreclosure, Mamdani got an intimate look at the little insanities of the city’s housing crisis.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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Exantus was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but was sentenced for assault in the 2015 case involving 6-year-old Logan Tipton.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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