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This definition is accurate but lacks a certain finesse in describing how truly bazar the condition is. Beside seeing things as disassociated from facts such as the meaning of an electric light that is “on" verses “off", having a deeper set meaning, ie "one if by land two if by sea” there are all the meaning variants for everything that exists and then seeking the security of meaning one simple thing in desperation as if this fragile little thought, held tightly in my hand, will some how keep me from loosing my mind…briefly describing paranoid schizo. The consumption of LSD provides this experience and can have permanent effects.
schizophrenia |?skits??fr?n??; -?fren??|
noun
a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
• (in general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements.
DERIVATIVES
schizophrenic |-?frenik| adjective & noun
ORIGIN early 20th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek skhizein ‘to split’ + phr?n ‘mind.’
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