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  • Anyway, Lilly's parents told her Norman just got out of Bellevue and that if she sees him she's not to torment him anymore, because he's just a poor obsessive-compulsive with possible schizophrenic tendencies.†   (source)
  • Instead of 'growing out of' his childhood schizophrenia, he might well have grown into it.†   (source)
  • And another favorite, "You schizophrenic bat!"†   (source)
  • The city around us was schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • She was an imbecile, yes, but was she some sort of schizophrenic, too?†   (source)
  • It was a kind of schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • Hiro finally realizes that he has just wasted sixty seconds of his life having a meaningless conversation with a paranoid schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia, and his life, as he had lived it until then, was over.†   (source)
  • The book party was as schizophrenic as the book—at Bluenight, off Union Square, one of those shadowy salons with wingback chairs and art deco mirrors that are supposed to make you feel like a Bright Young Thing.†   (source)
  • It's a kind of subconscious, schizophrenic fibbing, if you ask me, and if those parents don't have guilt complexes, I don't know who has.†   (source)
  • More extensive evaluation would be necessary to make an exact psychiatric diagnosis, but his present personality structure is very nearly that of a paranoid schizophrenic reaction.†   (source)
  • Did you send Peter to Dr. Ghertz because you thought he was bipolar or schizophrenic?†   (source)
  • You mean paranoid schizophrenic?†   (source)
  • Schizophrenic reaction?†   (source)
  • "It means that," Dr. Tandlemann began, looking down at his folder to check the name, "it means that Sandra is not psychotic or schizophrenic, she's just had a small breakdown."†   (source)
  • Close to 90 percent of schizophrenics smoke.†   (source)
  • The father of her baby had told everyone that Sandi was an admitted schizophrenic and had picked his name out of the high school yearbook when she found out she was pregnant.†   (source)
  • We drop you off, walk into some stranger's house, and five minutes later some psycho's lobbing off my nuts with a machete while his schizophrenic wife makes Colin do push-ups on a bed of hot coals.†   (source)
  • Felipe was diagnosed with schizophrenia at about age eleven, and takes multiple medications for it.†   (source)
  • In other words, I'm not schizophrenic or bipolar or manic.†   (source)
  • I really thought I had a brain tumor or schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • Correct, you schizophrenic escapee from Bellevue.†   (source)
  • I would say that she suffers from schizophrenia and is continually balancing on the brink of psychosis.†   (source)
  • He wanted to tell her what a disturbed and vicious piece of garbage she was, wallowing in her schizophrenic fantasies, psychic vampire sucking on the misery of others to feed some sick need of her own— And then he heard, in memory, the words that Wallace Buck first said to him in the cemetery.†   (source)
  • And the homeless lady, a paranoid schizophrenic, who would lie down on a pew as if on a park bench -- the church authorities had finally decided they had to throw her out.†   (source)
  • Like the fact that Thorazine is what they give schizophrenics.†   (source)
  • In a civilized world where there are laws, banks, and supermarkets, being a paranoid schizophrenic is a major problem.†   (source)
  • Through the distorted vision of that long schizophrenia, I became clear-sighted.†   (source)
  • Schizophrenic Me Can barely pay attention to what I'm doing at work, with all the conversation going back and forth in my head.†   (source)
  • I was becoming dangerously frank, inconsistently schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • DYSART: No---just a fifteen-year-old schizophrenic, and a girl of eight thrashed into catatonia by her father.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, to human observers the spectacle was disturbingly schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • The Jews are giving us all schizophrenia, especially me.†   (source)
  • Now, just for the sake of playing games, I see the alternatives as either a successful integration of all this material or the achievement of a viable schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • Like the hypnotist's subject, and like a true schizophrenic, he must regularly deny to himself--far below the level of conscious assertion--that the voice with which he speaks is his own.†   (source)
  • Schizophrenia?†   (source)
  • "I'm not schizophrenic, and NOBODY, I said NOBODY, is going to take me to a hospital."†   (source)
  • Cynthia was depressive, Polly and Georgina were schizophrenic, I had a character disorder.†   (source)
  • Maybe not, but more important, a columnist does not tell a paranoid schizophrenic what to do.†   (source)
  • What was that stuff in those papers about me having a schizophrenic mind?†   (source)
  • " "Uncle Al said he's a paranoid schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • Besides, if the gods have gone schizophrenic like Hazel said—†   (source)
  • I asked him, "Aldo, am I a schizophrenic?"†   (source)
  • Then a series of notes claiming that Salander was paranoid and a schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • The schizophrenic part, though, is still a problem.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she was described as psychotic and sometimes as schizophrenic or paranoid.†   (source)
  • If it can help the gods get their schizophrenic act together, that's good."†   (source)
  • But I see no evidence whatsoever that she is schizophrenic or suffering from paranoid delusions.†   (source)
  • Its very existence confirms all documentary evidence that she is a paranoid schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • They become quite schizophrenic, I'm afraid.†   (source)
  • He assumes that my client is a paranoid schizophrenic and mentally ill in every sense.†   (source)
  • Many immigration observers believe U.S. officials have pursued a purposefully schizophrenic immigration policy.†   (source)
  • There's a good-sized shantytown of hardcore Third World unemployables, plus a scattering of schizophrenic first wonders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings.†   (source)
  • Mclean Hospital Page…. e 90 KAYSEN, Susanna DISCHARGE ON VISIT SUMMARY: Formal Diagnosis: Schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type (borderline) — currently in remission.†   (source)
  • I'm on a street corner arguing with a paranoid schizophrenic, and because I don't know what to say next, I say good-bye.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel's soothing music is a nice touch at so busy an asylum, and it's appropriately schizophrenic, too, lovely at times and lost at others.†   (source)
  • Dr. Ragins explained that a schizophrenic's mind is cluttered, with images and thoughts strewn everywhere.†   (source)
  • I am the inadequately educated grandson of grocery store owners who arrived in California in the 1920s from Spain on my father's side and Italy on my mother's side, learning something about survival and fine music from a schizophrenic African-American man who grew up in East Cleveland.†   (source)
  • Is this guy schizophrenic?†   (source)
  • And nothing can be left hanging, whether it's a decision on how to redo the front yard or whether a paranoid schizophrenic should be pushed to take advantage of his recent momentum and go immediately into therapy.†   (source)
  • They're calling me pathological, a schizophrenic — that means I fantasize: I sometimes tell the truth and sometimes not, and I'm not supposed to be able to tell the difference.'†   (source)
  • I would hesitate to confine myself to an exact diagnosis, but she has obvious delusions with distinct paranoid schizophrenic characteristics.†   (source)
  • "Okay, well, you take care of yourself," she said, the way you might say it to a schizophrenic homeless person to whom you've just given a dollar.†   (source)
  • A multiple schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • Big billboards along the highway showing a babbling schizophrenic running a wrecking machine, bold, red and green type: 'Hire the Insane.'†   (source)
  • A paranoid schizophrenic whose logged telephone calls show a man disintegrating into dementia, making insane accusations, wild threats aimed at those trying to help him?†   (source)
  • If that happened, then Andrews, because of the abundant evidence concerning his schizophrenic condition, would certainly be sentenced not to the gallows, or even to prison, but to confinement in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.†   (source)
  • Schizophrenic, maybe.†   (source)
  • But if you persist with this fantasy, with this figment of your tortured mind that you call Medusa, we'll label you a paranoid schizophrenic, a pathological liar prone to uncontrollable violence and self-deception.†   (source)
  • But it is Dr. Satten's contention that only the first murder matters psychologically, and that when Smith attacked Mr. Clutter he was under a mental eclipse; deep inside a schizophrenic darkness, for it was not entirely a flesh-and-blood man he "suddenly discovered" himself destroying, but "a key figure in some past traumatic configuration": his father? the orphanage nuns who had derided and beaten him? the hated Army sergeant? the parole officer who had ordered him to "stay out of…†   (source)
  • It is also my duty to remind the court that Lisbeth Salander has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • Zeke knew the merchants, the cheaters, the lonely, the schizophrenic, the lusty, the insane, the religious, the hypocritical, the blacks, the rednecks, the generous.†   (source)
  • "Paranoid schizophrenic, or so the diagnosis goes, although I'm not at all sure if those brain specialists really know what they're up to.†   (source)
  • …always too ready-at-hand, by anger, boredom, and the despair which comes with dealing out more justice than any policeman gets), the man of the force goes home to a wife who involves him, as soon as he crosses his threshold, in excuse-making and bribery and pointless anger of his own; and lest he begin to slide into a comfortable self-hatred, a schizophrenic separation of the policeman in him and the tawdry man, she kisses him on the cheek and, sooner or later, unmans him in his bed.†   (source)
  • And unlike Lilly, I do NOT believe that Joan was suffering from adolescent onset schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • And what about schizophrenia—that would send a chill up your spine.†   (source)
  • People don't "recover" from schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • He mentioned something to me about schizophrenia, I think they call it.†   (source)
  • The suicide rate among people with schizophrenia is frighteningly high.†   (source)
  • With schizophrenia, there's often bigotry or hyper-religiosity, or both.†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and calmed with heavy doses of Thorazine.†   (source)
  • Schizophrenia is a disorder in which you don't seem to be able to function as well as you can.†   (source)
  • Schizophrenics are creatures of habit, Dr. Ragins has told me.†   (source)
  • You're about to describe a classic case of paranoid schizophrenia with multiple personalities.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the Greek/Roman schizophrenia that Nemesis described.†   (source)
  • In ancient Egypt, I'd read somewhere, schizophrenics were worshiped as gods.†   (source)
  • After all, you came from Medusa and had a history of amnesia, even schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • In Miller there was not an ounce of what young Hodge, in his article, had called "schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • She felt withdrawn the way schizophrenics are withdrawn, indifferent to how it came out.†   (source)
  • They said that essentially the drug is twelve hours of schizophrenia, and if you already have a lot of this brain transmitter, you don't get out of it.†   (source)
  • They weren't partial or biased, just very persuasive in detailing how organic brain damage, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can conspire to create severe mental impairment.†   (source)
  • Years before, I had told her what I'd learned in my psychology class about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but she had shrugged it off.†   (source)
  • You're talking about schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • In 2005, members of the Native American Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding.†   (source)
  • None of the schizophrenics in our school have ever had their voices tell them to do something cool like lead their country into battle.†   (source)
  • Depression, manic-depression, schizophrenia: All that stuff they always had trouble treating they now treat chemically.†   (source)
  • Among my many new pen pals is Stella March, the mother of a son with schizophrenia, who is roughly Nathaniel's age.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm now at a point of letting go, of recognizing the limitations imposed by so severe a disorder as schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • When David leaves I tell Ragins everything I know about Nathaniel and wonder if it sounds like the same kind of schizophrenia David has.†   (source)
  • I've learned it's not uncommon for people with schizophrenia to be hyperreligious or hyper—race-conscious.†   (source)
  • As he sees it, we're not even really sure what labels like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder mean, nor do we have very strong evidence that medication is the best response.†   (source)
  • A few days later I hand Nathaniel a notepad and ask him to write down some thoughts on his first awareness that something was wrong, and what it was like to be treated for schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • I tell him I've met lots of people with schizophrenia who get up in the morning and go to work or school, raise families and live productive lives with the help of regular care and medication.†   (source)
  • I've had, like, schizophrenia," he says without being asked, telling Ragins he has been on antipsychotic medication in the past, including while living in San Francisco.†   (source)
  • In the case of schizophrenia, research points to a biological brain disorder involving any number of abnormalities—including irregular function of a neurotransmitter called dopamine—that could create hallucinations and distort reality.†   (source)
  • March knows there's still a long way to go for him and for the cause she's still committed to, but she's encouraged by improvements in awareness—Tom Cruise's outburst notwithstanding—and a breakthrough in brain scan technology that could one day allow doctors to diagnose schizophrenia in its early stages.†   (source)
  • Other researchers have employed Ekman's system to study everything from schizophrenia to heart disease; it has even been put to use by computer animators at Pixar (Toy Story) and DreamWorks (Shrek).†   (source)
  • Dr. Ghertz uses brain scans to show that there are structural changes in the adolescent brain that not only explain the timing of some major mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but also give biological reasons for some of the wild conduct that parents usually attribute to raging hormones.†   (source)
  • Every now and then, as the pages whipped through the automatic collating machine, he'd see brain scans of schizophrenics-bright pink circles at the frontal lobes that reproduced in shades of gray.†   (source)
  • Prior to the trial, at which Andrews pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, the psychiatric staff of the Menninger Clinic conducted an exhaustive examination of the accused; this produced a diagnosis of "schizophrenia, simple type."†   (source)
  • Taken as a whole, her written explanation confirms our suspicions that she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • And based on this complete picture you came to the conclusion that Lisbeth suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • "To sum up," Ekström said, leafing through his sheaf of papers, "it is your judgement as a psychiatrist of long standing that Lisbeth Salander suffers from paranoid schizophrenia?"†   (source)
  • Teleborian, who had many years of experience with the patient, had determined that Salander was suffering from a serious mental disturbance and employed terms such as psychopathy, pathological narcissism, and paranoid schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • And we see two things: schizophrenia would have destroyed it, and a successful resolution of its problem would preclude vengeance.†   (source)
  • But when it comes to a failure of production, do you think I can plead sickness—I mean schizophrenia—to my board of directors?†   (source)
  • You have just dispensed with the 'viable schizophrenia' you conjured up, and you have now switched over to its pulling through and becoming fully autonomous.†   (source)
  • Finally there is a sinister zone of likeness between Poland and the American South which, although anything but superficial, causes the two cultures to blend so perfectly together as to seem almost one in their shared extravagance—and that has to do with the matter of race, which in both worlds has produced centuries-long, all-encompassing nightmare spells of schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • Quit thinking like a schizophrenic.†   (source)
  • It was a case of catatonic schizophrenia, he said.†   (source)
  • All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.†   (source)
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