paranoid schizophrenia

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paranoid schizophrenia Meaning of "paranoid schizophrenia"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner

Synonym(s)

paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia

Usage(s):

  1. In another nice graphical touch, the lettering accompanying Steve's story becomes increasingly unsteady as he descends into the depths of paranoid schizophrenia.
  2. What Johnson also determined, according to the Associated Press, is that Kaczynski suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and that's opened a new round of plea bargain negotiations.
  3. His law career was cut short by paranoid schizophrenia, and he had more than 90 electroshock treatments.
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