Breakdown
Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.
Schizophrenia and breakdown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Schizophrenia" instead a noun "Breakdown".
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia noun - 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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Synonyms for Schizophrenia
Breakdown and schizophrenia are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a noun "Schizophrenia".
Nearby Word: schizophrenic
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By the sound of things, the singer is either suffering from a mental breakdown from paranoid schizophrenia, or being forcibly assimilated by a Hive Mind.
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Creator Breakdown: In-Universe, after his panic attack, BrianPast slowly starts to succumb to his schizophrenia over the production of Pet Sounds and Smile.
Source: Film / Love & Mercy -
Creator Breakdown: Not only Jobs' failure to lead during late 1984-1985 (and his reaction to being fired), but Burrell Smith's descent into schizophrenia after helping to found Radius.
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