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Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder that typically begins in early adulthood and is often marked by hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking.

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People have formed deep connections with many AI chatbots that in some cases preceded dangerous delusions, hospitalizations and death.

But Guiteau couldn’t partake in what Makowsky delicately called the “benefits” of such a society, largely because his delusions of grandeur alienated him from others there.

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The series largely belongs to them — both actors are terrific, Shannon imbuing Garfield with a gravity leavened with kindness and humor, Macfadyen’s Guiteau, optimistically dedicated to his delusions yet always about to pop.

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Gottlieb has no delusions of someone stepping right into the superstar’s place.

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