Sentence examples for psychotic from inspiring English sources

But I went to speak to several psychiatrists before I started making the film and they told me that the person who killed her own kids was psychotic – not just depressed or angry but in a very strange and rare place, and that this did not happen to everybody.

He stopped taking medication and had not seen a GP, and was likely to have been suffering some psychotic symptoms in the period leading up to the murder.

I don't believe Mr Routh was actually intoxicated at the time of the offence based on a lot of the things he did – shooting accurately at the victims, driving 105 miles without an accident, not having slurred speech … I think he was psychotic".

But while in psychotic patients these traits are too pathological to allow creativity, in a healthy individual they can contribute towards brilliance and inspiration".

Nuns at a care home for children in Northern Ireland behaved like they were psychotic, the largest ever inquiry in UK legal history into child abuse has heard.

People with personality disorders tend to function fairly well (as opposed to, say, those with psychotic illnesses) until the pressure really piles on.

What would it be like for a paranoid psychotic to have it confirmed that, yes, there really are satanists out there, trying to get you?

The most rational of the characters, Scott, by now pushing 25, plays Mary Astor's rebellious 19-year-old daughter who has run away from finishing school and fallen for a psychotic gambler (John Hodiak), who is obsessed with her mother, while his sidekick (Wendell Corey) is obsessed with him.

Heiss, who has a history of psychotic illness, did not dispute that he killed his mother but denied murdering her on grounds of diminished responsibility.

Now a close friend - they set up a production company, 4Way Pictures, together with Mark Cousins, former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival - she first cast him as Safe's homeless psychotic Nosty in 1993.

The paediatric team understandably refuse for a multitude of reasons such as lack of space, or because a psychotic patient on a ward with other sick children would be difficult to manage.