John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.

American Mathematician

James D. Watson

My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.

American Scientist

Tyler Perry

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

American Actor

Zach Braff

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

Jack Kevorkian

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

American Activist

Alexis Korner

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

English Musician

Lily Tomlin

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

American Actress

David Hewlett

I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.

English Actor

Bruce Campbell

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Nicolas Cage

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Actor

Use with care. Labeling someone schizophrenic without medical context can stigmatize mental illness.

Respect Sensitivity

Avoid using 'schizophrenic' to insult someone. Focus on human aspects beyond the condition.

Not Offensive

Best used in medical or clinical settings to describe characteristics or treatments.

Medical Context

Do not define people only by the condition; use as an adjective to describe aspects.

Descriptive Usage

Non-medical use to describe contradictions. May be sensitive or perceived negatively.

Figurative Meaning

Awareness of how cultural perceptions of mental illness might influence understanding.

Cultural Caution

Ensure not to reinforce negative stereotypes about mental health when using figuratively.

Avoid Stereotypes

 He relapsed a little bit, they gave him a series of treatments, and he was essentially cured. But of course, having schizophrenia, within a few months, it returned. But they wrote a paper about this, and everybody in the western world began using electricity to convulse people who were either schizophrenic

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 think schizophrenia is not the same as multiple personality disorder or split personality the schizophrenic mind is not split but shattered everyone has seen a street person unkempt probably ill-fed standing outside of an office building muttering to himself or shouting this person is likely to have

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 quite interesting hippos are like social schizophrenic and as soon as they're out of the water at night when they go to feed they're become solitary animals it's quite weird I don't know anything else that does that now they don't tolerate each other out there either you

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 And that's the case of schizophrenic patients, who have auditory hallucinations. Who can't distinguish at all between voices coming from inside and outside their head. So in our lab, we are also working on small devices to help those people make those distinctions

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 Contrary to what many people think, schizophrenia is not the same as multiple personality disorder or split personality. The schizophrenic mind is not split, but shattered. Everyone has seen a street person, unkempt, probably ill-fed,

 humans were what today we would call schizophrenics. And he made this claim based on the fact that the first humans described in these books behaved consistently, in different traditions and in different places of the world,

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 misdiagnosed and locked up in an institution at eight years old it became a form of therapy for him they said he was severely mentally in another report they would say he was schizophrenic in another report that he

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 and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. It's easier to help schizophrenics who perceive

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 And so, he was destined to be raised by a single mom, which might have been all right except that this particular single mom was a paranoid schizophrenic,

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 job the easy part the generative art as an architect my medium is the physical world that's where actually I realized the very schizophrenic relationship

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