Schizophrenia
noun
A mental illness where a person can't think clearly, manage feelings, make decisions and relate to others.
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of twenty.
Often appears as...
- diagnosed with schizophrenia
- symptoms of schizophrenia
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noun
A mental illness where a person can't think clearly, manage feelings, make decisions and relate to others.
He was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of twenty.
Often appears as...
- diagnosed with schizophrenia
- symptoms of schizophrenia
Usage tips
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Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Schizophrenia refers to a serious mental health condition, not just unpredictable behavior or moods.
After the diagnosis, his schizophrenia was managed with medication and therapy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Split Personality
Schizophrenia is often confused with having multiple personalities, but they are separate conditions.
Schizophrenia involves delusions, not the existence of multiple distinct identities like in movies.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Topic
Discussions of schizophrenia require sensitivity, as it's a condition affecting real people's lives.
When she mentioned her brother's schizophrenia, I listened without judgment or assumptions.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Schizophrenia refers to a serious mental health condition, not just unpredictable behavior or moods.
After the diagnosis, his schizophrenia was managed with medication and therapy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Split Personality
Schizophrenia is often confused with having multiple personalities, but they are separate conditions.
Schizophrenia involves delusions, not the existence of multiple distinct identities like in movies.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Topic
Discussions of schizophrenia require sensitivity, as it's a condition affecting real people's lives.
When she mentioned her brother's schizophrenia, I listened without judgment or assumptions.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Schizophrenia refers to a serious mental health condition, not just unpredictable behavior or moods.
After the diagnosis, his schizophrenia was managed with medication and therapy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Split Personality
Schizophrenia is often confused with having multiple personalities, but they are separate conditions.
Schizophrenia involves delusions, not the existence of multiple distinct identities like in movies.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Topic
Discussions of schizophrenia require sensitivity, as it's a condition affecting real people's lives.
When she mentioned her brother's schizophrenia, I listened without judgment or assumptions.
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How to Herd Dangerous...
otherwise they can kill each other you can't reduce the stress completely but we'll try and reduce it as much as possible so that's what the use of tranquilizers one of them I got up here which is a tranquilizer that I believe is used in human medicine for schizophrenia I haven't tried it myself but it works very well on me in the game
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How much of what you see...
it likely plays an important part in integrating information from the eyes, nose, ears, and other sensory organs. So one theory is that LSD and psilocybin cause hallucinations by disrupting the signaling involved in sensory integration. Hallucinations associated with schizophrenia
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Jodi Picoult: Leaving...
I feel like they are speaking through me. And I hear them. I hear them very clearly in my head, they talk to me, they sometimes wake me up at night because they are annoying and and honestly you know, they I've long said, "my joke is that writing is successful schizophrenia.
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Why do we sleep? PIPE...
to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed, also predispose individuals to mental health problems. And last year, we published a study which showed that a gene that's been linked to schizophrenia, when mutated, also smashes the sleep.
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What is schizophrenia? -...
have multiple personalities, but these symptoms indicate a disruption of thought processes, rather than the manifestation of another personality. Schizophrenia also has negative symptoms, these are qualities that are reduced in people with schizophrenia,
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The voices in my head PIPE...
a diagnosis of schizophrenia came next, and then, worst of all, a toxic, tormenting sense of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects. But having been encouraged to see the voice not as an experience but as a symptom,
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Fighting injustice with...
schizophrenia a condition she did not have the diagnosis also gave the regime of her ization to routinely take her away from her home and place her in a mental hospital there she would be forced to receive electroshock through
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Is marijuana bad for...
these symptoms usually subside when a person stops using marijuana. But in rare cases, psychosis doesn’t subside, instead unmasking a persistent psychotic disorder. A family history of psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia,
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A tale of mental illness...
So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, but that isn't how my life turned out.
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A tale of mental illness...
so I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital but that isn't how my life turned out in
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How to Herd Dangerous...
otherwise they can kill each other you can't reduce the stress completely but we'll try and reduce it as much as possible so that's what the use of tranquilizers one of them I got up here which is a tranquilizer that I believe is used in human medicine for schizophrenia I haven't tried it myself but it works very well on me in the game
Video examples
How much of what you see...
it likely plays an important part in integrating information from the eyes, nose, ears, and other sensory organs. So one theory is that LSD and psilocybin cause hallucinations by disrupting the signaling involved in sensory integration. Hallucinations associated with schizophrenia
Video examples
Jodi Picoult: Leaving...
I feel like they are speaking through me. And I hear them. I hear them very clearly in my head, they talk to me, they sometimes wake me up at night because they are annoying and and honestly you know, they I've long said, "my joke is that writing is successful schizophrenia.
Video examples
Why do we sleep? PIPE...
to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed, also predispose individuals to mental health problems. And last year, we published a study which showed that a gene that's been linked to schizophrenia, when mutated, also smashes the sleep.
Video examples
What is schizophrenia? -...
have multiple personalities, but these symptoms indicate a disruption of thought processes, rather than the manifestation of another personality. Schizophrenia also has negative symptoms, these are qualities that are reduced in people with schizophrenia,
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The voices in my head PIPE...
a diagnosis of schizophrenia came next, and then, worst of all, a toxic, tormenting sense of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects. But having been encouraged to see the voice not as an experience but as a symptom,
Video examples
Fighting injustice with...
schizophrenia a condition she did not have the diagnosis also gave the regime of her ization to routinely take her away from her home and place her in a mental hospital there she would be forced to receive electroshock through
Video examples
Is marijuana bad for...
these symptoms usually subside when a person stops using marijuana. But in rare cases, psychosis doesn’t subside, instead unmasking a persistent psychotic disorder. A family history of psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia,
Video examples
A tale of mental illness...
So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, but that isn't how my life turned out.
Video examples
A tale of mental illness...
so I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital but that isn't how my life turned out in
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Natalie Dormer
English Actress
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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Elyn Saks
American Educator
I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.
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Rose Namajunas
American Athlete
My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.
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Vittorio Gassman
Italian Actor
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
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Johnny Depp
American Actor
It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
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Thomas R. Insel
American Scientist
After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.
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Darrell Hammond
American Comedian
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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E. L. Doctorow
American Author
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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Oscar Levant
American Composer
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Natalie Dormer
English Actress
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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Elyn Saks
American Educator
I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.
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Rose Namajunas
American Athlete
My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.
Quote examples
Vittorio Gassman
Italian Actor
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Quote examples
Johnny Depp
American Actor
It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
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Thomas R. Insel
American Scientist
After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.
Quote examples
Darrell Hammond
American Comedian
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
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Thomas Szasz
American Psychologist
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Quote examples
E. L. Doctorow
American Author
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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Oscar Levant
American Composer
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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