schizophrenic
Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
of or relating to conflicting or inconsistent elements; characterized by unusual disparity: It wavers from comedy to thriller to docudrama—a totally schizophrenic plot!
a person with schizophrenia: Schizophrenics are often unable to focus on certain objects.
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How to use schizophrenic in a sentence
Paranoid schizophrenic, chemical imbalance, with acute psychotic episodes, and she didn’t know that I had to be hospitalized.
Model, Lover, Friend, Muse—A Photographic Diary of One Man's Struggle with Mental Illness Across Two Decades | Paul Moakley | February 14, 2022 | TimeThey show up when a schizophrenic man is setting fires to his neighbor’s furniture, and when a 13-year-old finds her father hanging from a basement pipe.
Crisis counselors are being hailed as police alternatives. It’s too heavy a burden, some say. | Rebecca Tan | June 16, 2021 | Washington PostMeanwhile, back in London, Olivia’s adoptive father starts to wonder if a new schizophrenic patient might be his daughter’s long-lost twin brother.
With ‘Double Blind,’ Edward St. Aubyn tasks himself with a formidable challenge | Charles Arrowsmith | June 11, 2021 | Washington PostPublic defenders, however, produced mental health and criminal records from New Mexico showing that Moore had been diagnosed much earlier in life as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Why One Woman Has Spent 5 Years in a San Diego County Jail With No Trial | Jesse Marx | April 8, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoTurning from biblical interpretation to psychiatry, the actor added, “I think the man was likely schizophrenic.”
Christian Bale: One Man's Moses Is Another Man's Terrorist | Candida Moss, Joel Baden | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In North Carolina, they let a 54-year-old untreated schizophrenic die of thirst after 35 days in solitary confinement.
Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On | Tina Brown | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe anecdotes all reveal something uncomfortably schizophrenic about our world…but even so: what has gotten into this woman?
When it comes to environmental protection, the Obama administration has seemed nothing less than schizophrenic.
EPA’s New Regulations to Cut Carbon Emissions Are Obamacare for the Air | Jason Mark | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat if Charlize Theron was brought in to do a remake of the Sally Field schizophrenic classic Sybil?
What the Hell Happened to Halle Berry’s ‘Frankie & Alice’? | Dan Heching | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe begins jabbering like a schizophrenic parrot reading a Sanskrit dictionary backward!
Lighter Than You Think | Nelson BondI am (to state it in politically incorrectly language) a schizophrenic.
Dreaming of Dreaming | Peter E. WilliamsTherapeutic running also seems to benefit schizophrenic patients.
When You Don't Know Where to Turn | Steven J. BartlettThere are good reasons for believing specific schizophrenic thought-disturbance to be the result of a complex.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology | C. G. JungLike the schizophrenic, Martin was living in a little world that was cut off from the actual physical world around his body.
Anything You Can Do | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for schizophrenic
/ (ˌskɪtsəʊˈfrɛnɪk) /
exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia
informal, offensive experiencing or maintaining contradictory attitudes, emotions, etc
a schizophrenic person
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