schizophrenia
A person with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations and social withdrawal.
Noun: 1. A severe, chronic mental disorder: Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by a breakdown in the relationship between thought, emotion, and behavior. This leads to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation. 2. A condition marked by specific symptoms: It is typically characterized by symptoms that are often categorized as "positive" (such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech) and "negative" (such as reduced emotional expression, social withdrawal, lack of motivation).
- Noun:
- He was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his early twenties.
- The research focuses on new treatments for schizophrenia.
- Symptoms of schizophrenia can include hearing voices and having paranoid thoughts.
- "Paranoid schizophrenia": A subtype historically used to describe schizophrenia where delusions or auditory hallucinations are prominent, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity. (Note: Modern diagnostic manuals have moved away from these subtypes).
- "The schizophrenia of [something]": A metaphorical, non-clinical use to describe a state of contradictory or fragmented elements within a system, idea, or situation.
- The schizophrenia of government policy on the issue was confusing to everyone.
- Schizophrenic (adjective): Of, relating to, or suffering from schizophrenia.
- She studies schizophrenic disorders.
- Schizophrenic (noun, often considered outdated or offensive in clinical contexts): A person with schizophrenia. It is generally preferable to use "a person with schizophrenia" or "an individual diagnosed with schizophrenia."
- Schizoid (adjective): Resembling or characteristic of schizophrenia, especially in showing social detachment and emotional coldness. It is also a distinct personality disorder.
- Psychosis (a broader term for a loss of contact with reality, of which schizophrenia is one type).
- Mental disorder, psychiatric illness (general terms).
- To be diagnosed with schizophrenia: To receive a formal identification of the illness from a medical professional.
- After a full assessment, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
- To manage/treat schizophrenia: To use medication, therapy, and support to control the symptoms of the illness.
- With proper medication, many people can manage schizophrenia effectively.
- There are no common idioms directly using the clinical term "schizophrenia." The metaphorical use in "Advanced Usage" functions similarly to an idiom to describe contradiction.
A person with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations and social withdrawal.
- any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact