schizophrenia

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness…

   A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities

   A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist

   Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.

   • [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.

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