schizoidin a sentence
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Someone with schizoid personality disorder seldom smiles or shows emotion in social situations.
schizoid personality disorder = characterized by withdrawal, an inability to form close relationships, and taking pleasure in few activities
- Back and forth, a crazy schizoid solace they'd create.† (source)
- You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children.† (source)
- Frequently this disorder is accompanied by many features of other Personality Disorders, such as Schizotypal, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Antisocial Personality Disorders.† (source)
- Carla, in fact, says it's a borderline schizoid response to traumatic cultural displacement.† (source)
- Three: That schizoid, blank-brain state that accompanies every total crash.† (source)
- I was instantly aware of a schizoid reaction: Part of me felt irritated, invaded, suspicious, resentful-and part of me was flooded with relief, like I wasn't so alone.† (source)
- The shirt had an inscription in white schizoid letters: I've gone to find myself.† (source)
- …she surely must have known that she was not asking me to believe the impossible; that Poles on numberless occasions in the near and distant past risked their lives to save Jews from whatever oppressor is a simple matter of fact beyond argument, and even though at that time I had small information about such things, I was not inclined to doubt Sophie, who, struggling with the demon of her own schizoid conscience, chose to throw upon the Professor a falsely beneficent, even heroic light.† (source)
- When it tried to compartmentalize them it went schizoid; when it tried to integrate them it went catatonic.† (source)
- It is harmless and only a little schizoid, but it often intimidates people.† (source)
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- Paranoids, schizoids, cycloids, semicatatonics, men who claimed to have gone to heaven in flying saucers, women who had burned their children's sex organs off with Bic lighters, alcoholics, pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, manic-depressives, suicidals.† (source)
- I must be totally schizoid.† (source)
- The situation would differ radically from that of a human schizoid of this sort, in that the additional personalities were valid images of genuine identities rather than self-generated complexes which had become autonomous.† (source)
- She's a schizoid—a permanent eccentric.† (source)
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