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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
Purdy’s defense attorneys had hoped to call his mother to the witness stand to present evidence of her history of mental illness, drug addiction, schizophrenia and alcohol abuse during her pregnancy with Purdy.
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Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Someone Loves You This moving short centers on a Jamaican family grappling with schizophrenia and the generational silence surrounding mental health.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 27 June 2025
The Neurologist’s Brother In his autobiography, On the Move, Oliver Sacks, one of the most influential neurologists of the past half century, discusses his brother Michael, who battled schizophrenia throughout his life.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
In another scenario, New Berlin police officers responded to a woman who was loitering and recognized signs of schizophrenia and PTSD.
—Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
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Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Someone Loves You This moving short centers on a Jamaican family grappling with schizophrenia and the generational silence surrounding mental health.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 27 June 2025
The Neurologist’s Brother In his autobiography, On the Move, Oliver Sacks, one of the most influential neurologists of the past half century, discusses his brother Michael, who battled schizophrenia throughout his life.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
In another scenario, New Berlin police officers responded to a woman who was loitering and recognized signs of schizophrenia and PTSD.
—Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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The material about his aging father, now living with dementia, is refreshingly candid, especially a riff on the surprising silver lining of a parent who no longer has a filter.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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For a decade, Alma Valencia has taken on the task of caring for her mother, Arminda, who suffers from dementia.—
Marina E. Franco,
NBC news,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Weed's linked to everything from psychosis to violent behavior to dementia.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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Introducing Rachel Aviv’s report on one woman’s stunning recovery from psychosis.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Their paranoia is no longer hidden; it is broadcast from the headlines of state media.—
Tom Ridge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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That both films are fueled by paranoia is no coincidence.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 July 2025
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Not only was part two different in the neurosis of a pop singer, but the Melrose lot sold it on scares (in addition to wicked grinning people showing up at major events).—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 June 2025
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Agnes is socially competent, even charismatic, but beset by neuroses that seem genuinely frustrating to her, not the self-satisfied post-Woody Allen solipsism common to auteurs of this ilk.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 June 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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Now, with the S&P 500 trading at new records, the resurgence of meme mania and a pro-crypto White House supporting the crypto industry, investors are looking further out on the risk spectrum of crypto hoping for bigger gains.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
28 July 2025
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Pop music, like the rest of American society, has reached the exhausted endpoint of the taboo-litigation mania that’s marred the past decade of our national life.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
25 July 2025
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Kraepelin hoped that schizophrenia would eventually reveal itself to be a disease like neurosyphilis, which was then responsible for a large portion of the cases of insanity in psychiatry wards.—
Rachel Aviv,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Way was nothing short of a force of nature in the role, bringing a mix of mania, terror and insanity to a character that felt straight out of the comic books he’s written.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
21 July 2025
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Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and surrounding Pacific Rim regions continued to experience seismic instability, with dozens of aftershocks being reported on Saturday by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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From administrative instability to the politicization of teaching and the ethical use of AI, educators believe the stakes have never felt higher.—
Marybeth Gasman,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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