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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
Six years ago, another homeless man with schizophrenia struck her father in the face with a metal curtain rod after being asked not to urinate in front of children.
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Devan Patel, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
My father was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and our relationship was strained.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 14 May 2025
Her mom rarely left bed because the medication that tamed her schizophrenia made her lethargic.
—Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 16 June 2025
With less qualified experts to treat mental health conditions, more Americans could suffer from drug overdoses and mental conditions like schizophrenia.
—Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
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Devan Patel, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
My father was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and our relationship was strained.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 14 May 2025
Her mom rarely left bed because the medication that tamed her schizophrenia made her lethargic.
—Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 16 June 2025
With less qualified experts to treat mental health conditions, more Americans could suffer from drug overdoses and mental conditions like schizophrenia.
—Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Due to his battle with dementia, Wilson was placed under a conservatorship in February 2024, weeks after the death of his wife, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
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Fannie’s Friends support group: Fannie’s Friends is a virtual support group for adult daughters and granddaughters caring for those living with dementia.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2025
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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
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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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Defense had planned to argue insanity Purdy’s trial had been scheduled to take place in July.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 June 2025
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The trial was initially scheduled to begin three months ago but was delayed after Abril changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2025
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Advertisement Strikes reinforce Chinese view of U.S. instability China already saw the U.S. under the Trump Administration as an unstable partner, particularly after Trump slammed the world with staggering tariff rates before abruptly reversing course.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
27 June 2025
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Yet the aftershocks of 2008 continue, and today’s economic pressures—rising costs, stagnant wages, global instability—are forcing a reckoning.—
Benjamin van der Lande,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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