schizophrenic

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Recent Examples of schizophrenic The exchange is later revealed to be a schizophrenic episode. Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025 The investigation confirmed a mental health component to the case, suggesting that Ricklefs may have been experiencing a schizophrenic episode, according to the news release. Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025 That same summer, Bill Keller and I wrote a story about a schizophrenic man named Andrew Goldstein who, in 1999, had pushed Kendra Webdale in front of an oncoming subway. John J. Lennon september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025 Clayton, a bipolar, suicidal man, voluntarily checks into a mental hospital and falls in love with a schizophrenic patient, Anna (Jade Jordan). Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025 According to court and police record, police were conducting a welfare check on Brown, where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic. Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Advertisement Hawley worked from a similar playbook with Legion, whose apparently schizophrenic superhero filtered a fast-evolving cultural conversation around mental illness through a psychedelic kaleidoscope, and especially Fargo. Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenic
Adjective
  • The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
    Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Their personas could be withholding, eccentric, neurotic, ambiguous, strange.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Vanya is a closeted gay man who shuns intimacy and Sonia is a neurotic spinster who feels unnoticed and unloved.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The book hinges on a conflict between self-righteous Burghers, who live in cities, and resentful, paranoid rural people known as Yeomen.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • However, once a paranoid hermit nation of Europe, after 1992 Albania began to emerge from its fortress mindset.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Millions more take them for other mental health issues including anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, some eating disorders, substance use disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Gabriel Palacios, 13, had long faced bullying because of his disabilities, including ADHD, Tourette’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder — bullying that had gone unaddressed for so long that his family was pursuing transferring him to a private school, his family says.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But for a few unlucky people, chatbots powered by the technology have become a gaslighting, delusional menace.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Her protagonist, known to have been derived from herself in a few other ways, blunders along and is charming but delusional, unlike Austen’s fiercely independent and witty Elizabeth Bennet.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • It is associated with hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impair daily functioning and can be disabling.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • My childhood had left me with social anxiety and a disordered relationship with food.
    Bee Wilson, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This season turns Noah into a smarmier, borderline sociopathic character — far more like Joe from Netflix’s You than anybody is likely to want to admit — whose condescension often became insufferable for me.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Oh plays Eve, a deskbound MI-5 agent who longs to be a spy in the field, a dream that is soon realized when a mutual obsession develops between her and a sadistic, sociopathic assassin (Jodie Comer) who always evades capture.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s no glee in the characters, yet somehow James manages to convey a sense of delirious glee for acting — a glee that proves contagious for the audience by the film‘s end.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • From there, the movie takes a delirious turn, with nobody else on the yacht seemingly knowing who this mysterious woman is.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025

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