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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
Medication is usually necessary for treating medical disorders associated with dysregulation of dopamine, such as Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
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Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
This is often disrupted in neuropsychiatric conditions such as autism and schizophrenia.
—Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
His attorneys argued that mental illness and schizophrenia led to his unthinkable actions.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 2 June 2025
From Parkinson’s disease to schizophrenia, many brain disorders stem from specific types of brain cells.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
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Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
This is often disrupted in neuropsychiatric conditions such as autism and schizophrenia.
—Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
His attorneys argued that mental illness and schizophrenia led to his unthinkable actions.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 2 June 2025
From Parkinson’s disease to schizophrenia, many brain disorders stem from specific types of brain cells.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Over the past 20 years, multisensory stimulation has been evaluated as a non-pharmacological intervention for people living with dementia and other persons with disabilities.—
Anne Ferguson,
Mercury News,
16 June 2025
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Feline dementia, dental disease, or arthritis can also keep your kitty up at night.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Some models affirm signs of psychosis more than half the time when prompted.—
Thomas Westerholm,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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She had been concerned over his struggle with addiction and mental health, which had led to period of psychosis.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2025
Noun
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As fear blurs into paranoia, the film explores the unsettling reality of surveillance, obsession and the quiet dread of being followed. Stomach It | 2024 | United States | Peter Klausner | A crime scene cleaner struggles with emotionally detaching from the deceased’s personal possessions.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 2025
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Davila-Alvarez said the decision to follow her daughter was not made out of paranoia but from practicality—and love.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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Pryor was a savant at polishing his challenging circumstances and debilitating neuroses into crowd-pleasing material, and this is broadly how he’s remembered in comedy history.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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Both leads are superb, equally aggravated and aggravating, brittle with neuroses that occasionally relax and part to reveal gentle need.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 May 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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There’s a quiet mania about people like Stephen A., who work both morning and late shifts, on the same days.—
Danyel Smith,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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The resentment that artists feel about the act of laundering their patron’s cultural cache has been around at least as long as the Greeks were dealing with Alcibiades, but Mac brings a pleasurably vicious mania to this particular play-as-tirade.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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Walter refused to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2025
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Third, and this is key: Do not give in to insanity.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
9 June 2025
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Yet Putin has organized Russia’s economy around the war effort and imposed draconian restrictions on civil society since 2022 — measures that will be difficult to change without risking internal instability, Western officials and observers suggest.—
Joel Gehrke,
The Washington Examiner,
13 June 2025
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Working-class wives work primarily for the money rather than career satisfaction; this results in more marital tension, which can fuel marital instability that spirals into yet more economic insecurity.—
Joan C. Williams
June 13,
Literary Hub,
13 June 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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