NOUN
- 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
How To Use paranoid schizophrenia In A Sentence
- Parents of teenage daughters worry most about anorexia, they say, and above all else, teenage boys' parents fear paranoid schizophrenia.
- Criteria for subtyping schizophrenia: Clinical differentia tion of hebephrenia and paranoid schizophrenia. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- He, who was also killed that day, had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia five years previously after sustaining a serious head injury resulting from a rollover car accident, according to family members.
- His nurse told him years ago that he was showing symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
- Martin was a diabetic with paranoid schizophrenia, and he had been out of his insulin for over a month.
- Gary Macey has paranoid schizophrenia and has received treatment at the hospital for much of 2004.
- If it is later proven and obvious that she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, then those following her rants will either seem quite the dupes, or will claim the government 'dosed' her and bought on the mental illness. Red Ice Creations
- For example, paranoid schizophrenia is typified by exaggerated suspicions of others and fear of persecutory schemes. Henry’s Demons
- The appellant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which is a mental illness within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983.
- Shortly after he finished his first album, he was diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia.
