Word: schizophrenia
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...defendant, mental health professionals initially deemed Leong not competent to stand trial, meaning he couldn’t understand the charges against him. At an initial hearing, Leong stated he had been off his medication, and a motion filed by Twohig described him as suffering from chronic paranoid schizophrenia...
...motion for pre-trial probation filed by Hunt’s attorney in January 2001, Hunt was at the time suffering from and being treated for diagnoses of schizoaffective disorder and secondary post traumatic stress disorder. The first is characterized by severe mood swings and depression mixed with schizophrenia-like symptoms. The second refers to mental illness brought on by interactions with or the witnessing of others who experienced great trauma. It is often associated with the horrors of war or abuse...
...that's just the start. People in happy marriages also have less acute and chronic illness, better-functioning immune systems, fewer fatal accidents, less susceptibility to alcohol abuse and lower rates of depression, schizophrenia and suicide. In stable relationships, partners help each other by encouraging good health habits, such as routine mammograms and colonoscopies, and discouraging bad habits like smoking...
...looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, "My Mom Was a Schizophrenic" [which examined the historical diagnosis of schizophrenia and those who disagree with its classification as a disease.] I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. Also, in the last couple of years I've had an interest in history and politics. I was reading various historical books and I read Maggie Siggin's Louis...
...whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw...