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  • Hazel, a gentle reminder: Isaac is in the midst of a psychotic episode.†  (source)
    psychotic = related to psychosis or someone who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
  • I don't know whether she was really well-centered, or just psychotic.†  (source)
  • Learning that the Sixers had done it in less than twenty-four hours had probably driven her into a psychotic rage.†  (source)
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  • I showed Peter all the evidence that I had assembled, enough to prove in the eyes of the public that he was a psychotic killer.†  (source)
    psychotic = related to psychosis or someone who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
  • I once played for twenty hours straight and experienced signs of mild psychosis.†  (source)
    psychosis = any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
  • Maybe we're psychotics walking around a padded room wearing paper slippers and straitjackets.†  (source)
    psychotics = people who suffer from psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
  • While he's waiting, the door opens again and a psychotically cute girl walks in and scans the room until her eyes land on him.†  (source)
    psychotically = in a manner where contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
  • Do I know about the new generation of antipsychotic medication that could change his life?†  (source)
    antipsychotic = working against psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antipsychotic means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • While in the Russell County jail, he became acutely psychotic.†  (source)
    psychotic = related to psychosis or someone who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
  • The crowding, poor nutrition, and lack of hygiene made disease rampant; from typhus to scarlet fever, from malnutrition to psychosis, illness of some kind struck nearly every family.†  (source)
    psychosis = any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
  • Psychotics often believed the rest of the world was twisted, when in reality it was they who were tied up in knots.†  (source)
    Psychotics = people who suffer from psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
  • And in a spasm of strange mirth it flashed across Sophie's mind that in this psychotically ordered and scheduled household the wretched woman could only have sex on the fly, so to speak, vertically in an alcove behind a mammoth grand piano during these fleetingly few, precious and unprogrammed minutes after breakfast when the children were just off to the garrison school and before the beginning of daily routine.†  (source)
    psychotically = in a manner where contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
  • The introduction of antipsychotic medications like Thorazine held great promise for many people suffering from some severe mental health disorders, but the drug was overused in many mental institutions, resulting in terrible side effects and abuses.†  (source)
    antipsychotic = working against psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
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