How to Use schizophrenia in a Sentence

schizophrenia

noun
  • The rest were healthy people and those with schizophrenia.
    — Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Patients have a 30-fold increase in the risk of schizophrenia.
    — Claudia Dreifus, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Most are poor and homeless, and many have schizophrenia, says Ms. Tong.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2021
  • The man said Burks, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, had slashed the tires on his car.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • That case centered on a 48-year-old man with schizophrenia.
    — oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
  • The two are in a small room for a clinical trial on schizophrenia.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • One month Du was in and out at least four times, and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The 55-year-old who lives with schizophrenia had been wandering the streets homeless for more than a year.
    — Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The police said that the stranger was Waldo Mejia, a man with a history of schizophrenia.
    — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Six months later, the FDA approved the first new drug for schizophrenia in 30 years, Cobenfy.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In 1988, Memphis police shot and killed a man with schizophrenia.
    — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Nearly 3 million adults in the U.S. live with schizophrenia.
    — Sara Salinas, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The mother told police that her daughter had schizophrenia and was armed with a bat and knives, and had access to a gun.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Deaths were three times higher for those with schizophrenia, according to the study.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Perhaps the most shocking thing about living with schizophrenia is that life goes on.
    — Rebecca Chamaa, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But the increase in schizophrenia deaths dwarfed both those conditions.
    — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 15 Mar. 2023
  • One of them, in March 2014, was James Boyd, a homeless man diagnosed with schizophrenia.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Odell was so easy to gaslight and discredit, but the facts of her body, and of the child, could not be denied.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • At the time of his death, the lawsuit states, a prescription for Risperidone — a drug used to treat schizophrenia — was found in LeRoux’s car.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Olanzapine is a drug used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Irene’s husband has since died, and her 17-year-old son, Joe (Lawrence Shou), who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, hasn’t been the same since.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 June 2025
  • Deputies found out the man had a history of schizophrenia, according to records, and did not arrest him.
    — Grace Toohey, orlandosentinel.com, 9 July 2021
  • Gordon, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, had been in prison for four decades.
    — Beth Harris, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Marks uses the fact of Carl Maier’s schizophrenia to prop up this diagnosis.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
  • One of these people told police that Garza suffered from schizophrenia, Hodges said.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Thomas has schizophrenia, according to court records, and was responding to voices telling him to kill his wife and the children.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Kathy Jawor had schizophrenia and had been in and out of mental institutions in her adult life.
    — Freep.com, 16 May 2021
  • As a teenager, Dawn tried to research mental illness and schizophrenia at the library.
    — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Recent research has looked at its potential benefits, in very low doses, for treatment of depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
    — New Atlas, 23 June 2025
  • On Facebook in 2023, Rudd said he was given antipsychotic medications to treat schizophrenia.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

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