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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
Olanzapine is a drug used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
The oral drug designed to help treat adults with schizophrenia has the potential to reach peak sales of $10 billion or more annually, according to the analysts.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
The lawsuit filed just over one month after Aguilar-Hurtado’s death said she was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge on March 19, 2023, and was deemed unfit to plead or stand trial due to her schizophrenia.
—Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
His family told Israeli media he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
—Associated Press, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
The oral drug designed to help treat adults with schizophrenia has the potential to reach peak sales of $10 billion or more annually, according to the analysts.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
The lawsuit filed just over one month after Aguilar-Hurtado’s death said she was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge on March 19, 2023, and was deemed unfit to plead or stand trial due to her schizophrenia.
—Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025
His family told Israeli media he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
—Associated Press, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
Noun
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Be Patient With Eating and Drinking Challenges Many people with dementia face difficulties with eating and drinking, either due to forgetfulness or diminished appetite.—
Smita Patel,
Verywell Health,
9 Apr. 2025
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Ensure Safety at Home Safety is a major concern for caregivers, especially when the person with dementia begins to wander or forget important details, like turning off the stove.—
Smita Patel,
Verywell Health,
9 Apr. 2025
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The novel’s dark genius is in treating Bateman’s bespoke consumerism as the deeper psychosis.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Psychological assessments conducted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2019 and 2021 concluded Hale wasn't suffering from psychosis and recommended outpatient treatment.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Apr. 2025
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Developing robust risk management strategies is not about paranoia but preparedness.—
Jim Stevenson,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Even this bizarre relationship echoes the era’s confusion and paranoia, with its unchecked consumerism and its sense that corporate society now had a mind of its own, as well as the uneasy role celebrity plays in the whole thing.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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That may sound like a vague virtue, but Dortmund have received a lot of criticism this season — rightly — and that has bred neuroses throughout their team.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Leading a cast and writers’ room riddled with neuroses, his poker face and minimalist reactions have often left a trail of insecure young comedians on edge.—
Maureen Dowd,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 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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This highlights one of the problems of the current sanction and tariff mania in Washington.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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But that, and this current pickleball mania, pales in comparison to bowling’s boom.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Who pays for this insanity of too many coaches and assistants?—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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The court ruled that although Elkins did kill her children, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity, the outlet and NBC10 Philadelphia reported.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, homelessness and housing instability worsened.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2025
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Housing instability — the inability to maintain a home — is the leading cause of homelessness, experts and advocates say.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Schizophrenia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizophrenia. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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