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psychosis

noun

A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.

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The word "psychosis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of mind that is characterized by an inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. For example, "The patient's psychosis was caused by a traumatic experience which led to her inability to tell reality from fantasy."

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Related: Jeremy Hunt and the Tories: a scary prospect for Britain's mental health The plan for those with common mental health conditions such as depression to see a therapist within 18 weeks, and for people having their first episode of psychosis to get help within two weeks, came into force on 1 April.

Dunn said: "My diagnosis is that he does not have a cannabis-induced psychosis but rather that he suffers from schizophrenia.

The inevitable descent into post-fame psychosis was laid down in harrowing detail through his five-album arc.

Some are depressed, some display new psychosis, or others as young as 11 are diagnosed with personality disorders and have taken life-threatening overdoses.

For reasons that aren't entirely clear, severe psychosis, represented by diagnoses such as schizophrenia, is extremely rare in young children.

Those with psychosis come in scared and wide-eyed – confused by the voices in their heads and their experience made much worse by the noise around them in the department.

"This divergent and over-inclusive way of thinking reflects many of the thought processes and patterns seen in psychosis.

When the anguish has played itself out at all levels for Heller and for Sym, for the Jews in the ghetto, and for the city as a whole with the arrival of the liberators, Gloria is left alone with a bizarre symbol of a shared psychosis: in a nod to Yeats, a tortoise "moving its slow thighs".

"Regarding the psychosis that there aren't dollars and that you have to go to illegal markets to get them, it must be said: society needs to calm itself," counselled Emmanuel Álvarez Agis, Argentina's vice-minister for the economy, in one interview.

Whereas Hollywood war films used to concentrate on waste and psychosis in Vietnam, now filmmakers are more confident about depicting Americans winning (or borrowing) military honour.

The aim is to stop baseless rumours that cause "alarm, panic and psychosis", says José Dolores Espinoza, a state congressman backing it.Others detect more sinister motives.

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