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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
The man who killed him was a stranger suffering from schizophrenia who was released from custody under the mental health diversion program, Catanyag said.
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Andrew Graham
march 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Mar. 2026
Using marijuana also did not improve other mental health conditions such as anorexia nervosa; bipolar disorder; obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD; or psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, Wilson said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
If someone is diagnosed with a debilitating form of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, for example, private insurance often can’t place them in a bed that would provide them with needed — indeed, potentially life-saving — full-time care.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
Hallucinogens could trigger schizophrenia or a bipolar episode.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for schizophrenia
Andrew Graham
march 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Mar. 2026
Using marijuana also did not improve other mental health conditions such as anorexia nervosa; bipolar disorder; obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD; or psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, Wilson said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
If someone is diagnosed with a debilitating form of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, for example, private insurance often can’t place them in a bed that would provide them with needed — indeed, potentially life-saving — full-time care.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
Hallucinogens could trigger schizophrenia or a bipolar episode.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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The movie star, who retired from acting in 2022 and was diagnosed the following year with frontotemporal dementia, turned 71 on March 19.—
Roberta Mercuri,
Vanity Fair,
20 Mar. 2026
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One study of 300,000 people found that greater muscle mass was associated with a lower risk of dementia, Wood says.—
Holly Haber,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The weed can induce psychosis and send people into bad, almost psychedelic trips that are scary.—
Stuart Miller,
Oc Register,
18 Mar. 2026
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This stylish novel, full of sentence-level pyrotechnics and mad dashes through the Mojave, traces a new mother’s descent into what’s either rebirth or psychosis.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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That belief will only reinforce his paranoia, and his determination to expand his arsenal — making the Korean peninsula harder, not easier, to stabilize.—
Karishma Vaswani,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026
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The disease caused by repetitive head trauma is known to cause aggression, mood swings, depression and paranoia but can only be diagnosed through a postmortem brain autopsy.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Mar. 2026
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The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.—
Sam Kriss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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The self-torturing helices of thought twisting inside the young minds on the courts are no less fraught than the recursive neuroses tormenting the addicts down the hill.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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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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The states that fall for the tax-the-rich mania will be left in the dust, with failing economies and shrinking political clout in Congress.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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When lightning survivors insist, as many do, on unplugging their appliances in preparation for a storm, this is not tinfoil-hat mania.—
Jacob Stern,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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The film features a slew of genuine performances, which power up the violent insanity into something at once sensational and dramatic.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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The worship of greatness leads, at best, to disillusionment and, at worst, to the insanity unleashed by the Wagnerian Hitler.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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