Word: schizophrenia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dichotomy of farmers with too much and too little water just hours apart from one another produced a bizarre schizophrenia in India's government last week. As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh toured the floods, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram was asking businessmen to pray for rain and warning that drought might cut economic growth to below 5%. And when Singh arrived in Bihar, the state asked in the same breath for $2.4 billion for flood alleviation and $890 million for drought. "It's crazy," says Bihar air-relief coordinator Gautam Goswami. "Absolutely crazy...
What will strike most visitors to Egypt—torn between urgent and exaggerated preservation of tradition and the promise of growth, the schizophrenia of globalization—are Egypt’s glaring contradictions and ironies. It is not uncommon to walk through bazaars and see women covered from head to toe in black, veiled except for their eyes, rifling through gargantuan vats of skimpy thong underwear. It is perfectly acceptable, even normal, for male soldiers to hold hands and kiss one another on the street, machine guns slung casually by their sides. At the same time, though, wives...
...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...
...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...