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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
Brown had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered hallucinations and paranoia, his sister Tracey Brown said.
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Holly Yan, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Originally from Arizona, Van Tine had struggled with schizophrenia, his brother Matthew said.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
My brother was a poet, classics scholar, and charismatic leader of nerds who blossomed into a handsome surfer and then nosedived into schizophrenia and a life of unfiltered Camel cigarettes, caffeine, and antipsychotics.
—Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Holly Yan, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Originally from Arizona, Van Tine had struggled with schizophrenia, his brother Matthew said.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
My brother was a poet, classics scholar, and charismatic leader of nerds who blossomed into a handsome surfer and then nosedived into schizophrenia and a life of unfiltered Camel cigarettes, caffeine, and antipsychotics.
—Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Cortes' dad, 82-year-old Julio Rivera, has COPD, diabetes and late-stage vascular dementia.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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The sisters have taken time to give fans a peek into their time with family in recent months, particularly after their dad's 2022 frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This is mass political psychosis.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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And Cherry doesn’t need much to encourage her dormant psychosis.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Prolonged isolation in detention can provoke psychological symptoms, including paranoia, PTSD and depression, that can lead to suicide, Peeler said.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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The film reflected the political paranoia of the time and remains a classic of the genre.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Americans are particularly susceptible to these neuroses.—
Franklin Schneider,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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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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But 1996 turned out to be just the early innings of the dot-com mania, and those who bailed in late 1996 missed one of the most impressive five-year S&P 500 stretches on record.—
Dan Runkevicius,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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While injuries to stars are bad enough, sometimes a collective mania around an entire team can lead to ratings disruptions.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Johnson had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the outlets reported.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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The gunman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent decades at a mental hospital before he was released in 2016 and freed from court restrictions in 2022.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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