schizophrenic

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When the voices he heard, which by the way for a schizophrenic are very real, he believed he needed to have certain items with him.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or affected with schizophrenia.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.
  3. noun One who is affected with schizophrenia.

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  • Batman Returns, which is much more the director's film, paints the superhero as a schizophrenic, as well. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • Kirwin explained that Joel was a paranoid schizophrenic, as well as delusional, grandiose, hallucinatory, and incoherent. —  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Lawrence once again painted him as a schizophrenic, making him, from a criminal perspective at least, not responsible for his actions. —  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • The same can't be said of the next two pieces, one of which takes us to a fascinating and bizarre version of hell, the other into the mind of a schizophrenic -- or is she really seeing ghosts and hearing voices? —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • And for a while she wondered if perhaps she might be schizophrenic, and whether the sense of lacking heft might be the root cause of the severest forms of psychosis. —  Asimov's SF, July 2006
 

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