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paranoid schizophrenia

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Noun1.paranoid schizophrenia - 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
dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact


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We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders" is a collection of poetry from Pamela Spiro Wagner, reflecting on her twenty five years diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Glaister Earle Butler was a patient with a long-standing diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia which included deluded beliefs that he was being targeted by organisations including the police.
Throughout his trial, O'Donnell, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1992, refused to enter a plea to the charges and gave no instructions to his defence team.
 
 
 
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