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What does schizophrenia mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.
  2. (informal, figuratively) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.
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One is not sentenced to be drug or alcohol dependent in the way people are saddled with schizophrenia or multiple sclerosis.
Most defendants who were hospitalised had diagnoses of schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder.
By this stage, the scriptwriters are into their fourteenth magic mushroom, as the plot ricochets between schizophrenia and plain stoopid.
The defence presented evidence that Juman suffered from cannabis-induced psychotic disorder, reactive depression and schizophrenia.
Treatment of schizophrenia in most cases involves a combination of antipsychotic medications and psychosocial therapy.
I do volunteer work in the fields of restorative justice, dealing with youth offenders, and citizen advocacy for people with schizophrenia.

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