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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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Recreational or self-prescribed use carries risks like addiction, bladder damage and psychosis — risks rarely mentioned in viral posts.—
John Samuels,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Their trials only escalate from there, as the siblings try to stave off malnourishment and psychosis.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
4 June 2025
Noun
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The frustration, at times, sounds more like paranoia.—
Xochitl Gonzalez,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2025
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Read More: Questlove on Summer of Soul and the Oscars After making the album, Stone slipped even further into addiction, depression, and paranoia, sometimes going for years at a time without public appearances.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
10 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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These spectacular environments and their all-consuming nature are often a form of therapy, a response to loneliness, boredom, trauma, mental illness, or religious mania–sometimes a combination.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Deborah’s happiness swiftly begins to resemble mania and/or denial.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
30 May 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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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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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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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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