Schizophrenia

Definitions

1. A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
   countable, uncountable
2. A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder.
   countable, proscribed, uncountable
3. Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.
   countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Increasing data suggests that regular marijuana use⟳ in adolescence may also be a risk⟳ factor for developing very serious psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia.”

“In 1995, 2% of schizophrenia diagnoses in the country were associated with cannabis use⟳ disorder. In 2000, it increased to around 4%. Since 2010, that figure⟳ increased to 8%, the study⟳ found.”

“You have⟳ enough money to afford⟳ schizophrenia for a while. Especially if the personality B dreams up things that personality A makes practical, financially advantageous use⟳ of.”

“[O]ne can understand⟳ how the cultural disorientation which beset the African Continent has confused Africa's political behaviour, creating a political schizophrenia that made nation-building impossible.”

“Nevertheless, a certain amount of schizophrenia pertains to the study⟳ of World Englishes as New Englishes, for while new Englishes are regarded as valid varieties in their own⟳ right, the description and delineation of them in linguistic terms is conducted through the gaze of native-speaker norms.”

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