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  • Had I been in some kind of psychotic haze all morning?†   (source)
  • And then she'll go to prison and write Etienne psychotic letters on parchment made from dried skin for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • Not psychotic, obviously ….†   (source)
  • "You're psychotic!†   (source)
  • Hyman also got an affidavit from a fourth doctor explaining that the patients in the study wouldn't have been capable of giving informed consent even if Southam had asked: one had advanced Parkinson's disease and couldn't talk, others spoke only Yiddish, one had multiple sclerosis and "depressive psychosis."†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Now Leo was sure that Tia Callida, his psychotic babysitter, had been Hera all along.†   (source)
  • Now I would guess that Danny was in a pretty good position to develop a full-fledged psychosis.†   (source)
  • Echo was named after a psychotic Greek myth.†   (source)
  • It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche.†   (source)
  • She goes on a nightlong excursion through the world of the outcasts and the dispossessed of San Francisco; enters her therapist's office to talk him out of his psychotic shooting rampage (the dangerous enclosure known in the study of traditional quest romances as "ChapelPerilous"); involves herself in what may be a centuries-old postal conspiracy 5) The real reason to go: did I mention that her name is Oedipa?†   (source)
  • Hiro walks away, the same way he walks away from psychotic street people who follow him down the street "It tells you that evil is a virus!"†   (source)
  • She wanted to find others whose own psychotic experiences would make her feel less isolated.†   (source)
  • He'd probably end up spouting his lines like a psychotic blind man if you put him in front of a crowd.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this is what it was like to experience a complete psychotic break.†   (source)
  • That doesn't mean that in the case of someone who is acutely psychotic, and a threat to himself or someone else, Ragins would argue against meds and hospital care.†   (source)
  • Everyone wants to offer me pillows: We are all laboring under a mass psychosis that my rape and miscarriage have left me forever achy and delicate.†   (source)
  • "Because," Simon said, "you're obviously psychotic."†   (source)
  • Just a tiny bit psychotic, maybe?†   (source)
  • If he were human, I would call him certifiably psychotic.†   (source)
  • The best I can explain is it's like a mass psychotic episode, and it gets stronger each time."†   (source)
  • All were weak and had nasty side effects, which a patient had to endure for about two years—in the best case, stomachaches and months of intramuscular injections; in the worst, hypothyroidism, psychosis, and, if the doctor wasn't careful, even death.†   (source)
  • Your psychotic ex?†   (source)
  • All had been examined prior to their trials, and found to be "without psychosis" and "sane."†   (source)
  • I am interested, however, that the doctor at the work farm added this statement: 'Don't overlook the possibility that this man might be feigning psychosis to escape the drudgery of the work farm.'†   (source)
  • Some of its effects resemble rabies—psychosis, madness.†   (source)
  • "It means that," Dr. Tandlemann began, looking down at his folder to check the name, "it means that Sandra is not psychotic or schizophrenic, she's just had a small breakdown."†   (source)
  • When I said us I meant the non-psychotic Oranges.†   (source)
  • Plus, the lobby seemed a spiderweb of trapped psychotic poets and artists.†   (source)
  • We were scared—two hundred prisoners alone with one guard having a psychotic break.†   (source)
  • The side effects, both short term and long term, are horrifying: increased blood pressure and heart rate, anxiety and paranoia, insomnia, severe depression, delirium, psychosis, auditory and tactile hallucinations, respiratory failure, brain seizures, heart attack, stroke, and sudden death.†   (source)
  • And Ashley's practically psychotic with her wedding so close.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Psychotic, sociopathic.†   (source)
  • The War Department replied touchily that there had been no error and that she was undoubtedly the victim of some sadistic and psychotic forger in her husband's squadron.†   (source)
  • He'd thought Otis was some psychotic vampire, marking him for death.†   (source)
  • They whipped up such a psychotic fever that Tereza had been afraid that the crazed mob would do harm to Karenin.†   (source)
  • Either way, they knew they were looking for an acutely psychotic individual who found some kind of justice or deviant satisfaction in going to such great lengths without a clear cause.†   (source)
  • I haven't followed her development in several years, and I don't know what stage of psychosis she's in at present.†   (source)
  • Part of me felt that Russell's disposition was due to Mother's years of psychotic brainwashing, or maybe jealousy that I had escaped her wrath while he and my other brothers remained behind.†   (source)
  • Later, Celia would learn with sadness that the girl had defected while on tour in Oaxaca and was playing a psychotic housewife on a popular Mexican novela.†   (source)
  • Whatever else he was—sociopathic, psychotic, homicidal—he was also a child.†   (source)
  • Would someone in this room please tell me the exact hour when all my roommates had complete psychotic breaks with reality?†   (source)
  • In the Winter Palace, with the doomed Emperor of Austria-Hungary right over his head, he dangled from chains as he was beaten by a psychotic servant in a powdered wig.†   (source)
  • Maybe we're psychotics walking around a padded room wearing paper slippers and straitjackets.†   (source)
  • Embryo is talking about symptoms and hypomania and psychotic episodes when the bell rings.†   (source)
  • Although I must sound completely psychotic to you.†   (source)
  • Powell is a dangerous young man, with powerful shoulders and a psychotic temper.†   (source)
  • I'd never placed a lot of faith in psychiatry before I met Tom, but his uncanny ability to diagnose personality disorders and psychotic illnesses made a believer of me.†   (source)
  • But next poison call to Mort seemed to come from Alvarez, and what Mort had to say next day to Alvarez and what Alvaiez said in own defense can only be described as chaotic crossed with psychotic.†   (source)
  • Also that phrase "making a mockery" of something isn't generally in the vocabulary of a psychotic in a highly agitated state — certainly not in yours at your wildest.'†   (source)
  • Helen's not psychotic.†   (source)
  • She might well be in the cold and sweatless meathooks of a psychosis.†   (source)
  • Then he can get out of control and go into some, I don't know, area of psychosis where no one can reach him.†   (source)
  • The prevalence of alcoholism, marital failure, neurosis, and psychosis among guards is notorious.†   (source)
  • BOTARD: [to DUDARD] An example of collective psychosis, Mr. Dudard.†   (source)
  • Lincoln Powell, the Prefect of the Police Psychotic Division, is deadly.†   (source)
  • First a mild neurosis about it, then a full-fledged psychosis.†   (source)
  • He seems psychotic to me.   (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)
  • Thomas couldn't imagine going out that way, but based on Ben's last moments, psychotically thrashing and spitting and screaming, he no longer doubted the importance of the Glade rule that no one should enter the Maze except Runners, and then only during the day.   (source)
    psychotically = in a manner where contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
  • But there's a borderline between the lands of manageable and unmanageable psychosis.†   (source)
  • The psychotic shrill of their pursuers' cries rose behind them like the battle call of a demon army.†   (source)
  • She looked like a regular mortal woman, his good old psychotic babysitter.†   (source)
  • Other than ordinary people turn violent or psychotic?†   (source)
  • The sister murdered her mother in a psychotic rage.†   (source)
  • I'm having a psychotic episode, I thought.†   (source)
  • Luke already knew your mom was freaking psychotic and he never told anyone.†   (source)
  • By fifteen, he was having seizures and experiencing psychotic episodes.†   (source)
  • This is what a psychotic episode feels like.†   (source)
  • The one I remember he told me had to do with psychotic Girl Scouts who were stalking him.†   (source)
  • It was enough to give me a psychotic break—if I let myself dwell on it.†   (source)
  • But once you're named for an emperor, even a psychotic one, you can't do much about it.†   (source)
  • One patient became psychotic, apparently as a result of brain damage.†   (source)
  • How much of a motive does a psychotic nutcase need?†   (source)
  • 'Stop!' he whispered when the psychotic former commando was halfway through.†   (source)
  • However, she was violent and exhibited psychotic behaviour.†   (source)
  • "Wouldn't that account for her psychotic episodes today?"†   (source)
  • And so you have every right to sound psychotic.†   (source)
  • She seemed to be psychotic at times, and almost as if she were speaking in tongues.†   (source)
  • There is no doubt that Ebola damages the brain and causes psychotic dementia.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she was described as psychotic and sometimes as schizophrenic or paranoid.†   (source)
  • Nor can I determine what stage of the psychosis she is in without more extensive study.†   (source)
  • She was psychotic, showed obsessive behaviour, and was obviously suffering from paranoia.†   (source)
  • Armansky, Blomkvist, and Miriam Wu don't hold with the picture of her as a psychotic killer.†   (source)
  • The Salander she knew was no psychotic killer, but on the other hand she didn't know her very well.†   (source)
  • Lincoln Powell, Prefect of the Psychotic Division.†   (source)
  • For love of Kathleen the brothers leaped from cure to cure, as if they were the psychotics, not she.†   (source)
  • They merely tolerated what, to them, must be a constantly recurring psychotic condition.†   (source)
  • Please, no more psychotic statues.†   (source)
  • Psychotic goat-killing monsters.†   (source)
  • "Look, Mr. Traitor," she growled, "I didn't fight a dragon woman and a three-bodied man and a psychotic Sphinx to see you.†   (source)
  • Possible complications include Dys thymia depressive neurosis, Major Depression, Psychoactive Substance Abuse, and psychotic disorders such as Brief Reactive Psychosis.†   (source)
  • There is abundant reason to wonder why in the world Jim Williams would keep somebody around that he knew to be an unskilled, undependable, highly emotional, depressed psychotic, to protect and serve him in his hour of greatest need, when he collapsed in fainting spells and became comatose.†   (source)
  • He supposed that, in her deepening psychotic spiral, she had begun to see all of them as poor poor things.†   (source)
  • But compared to these others, he seems almost like a regular, healthy, fit, demented bush-dwelling psychotic.†   (source)
  • His prison records revealed that he often experienced psychotic episodes in which he would scream for hours.†   (source)
  • "She's not psychotic," I murmured, knowing that anything I said regarding my mother fell on deaf ears.†   (source)
  • These lines were predictable because they all stretched in the same direction: from the unstable person to objects, situations, or other persons outside of the subject's field of control (or fantasy: to the neurotic there might be some difference but to the psychotic they were one and the same).†   (source)
  • A psychotic blitz.†   (source)
  • During periods of extreme stress, transient psychotic symptoms may occur, but they are generally of insufficient severity or duration to warrant an additional diagnosis.†   (source)
  • This is the way he torments Jennifer on the phone, calling her his best friend one time and psychotically cursing at her the next.†   (source)
  • But Lisa was restricted to the ward, so she'd have to yell back something like: "Why do you want to eat that slop with all those psychotics?†   (source)
  • Because of his researches for Misery, he had rather more than a layman's understanding of neurosis and psychosis, and he knew that although a borderline psychotic might have alternating periods of deep depression and almost aggressive cheerfulness and hilarity, the puffed and infected ego underlay all, positive that all eyes were upon him or her, positive that he or she was staffing in a great drama; the outcome was a thing for which untold millions waited with held breath.†   (source)
  • Avery was in and out of jail until he turned twenty, when in the midst of a psychotic episode he wandered into a strange house, thinking he was being attacked by demons.†   (source)
  • Freud said psychotics were unanalyzable because they couldn't distinguish between fantasy and reality (tiger vs. bureau), and analysis works on precisely that distinction.†   (source)
  • They explained that the psychosis and other serious mental health problems that burdened Mr. Jenkins could lead to dangerous behavior, but this behavior was a manifestation of serious illness, not a reflection of his character.†   (source)
  • This was how depressives got just before shooting all the members of their families, themselves last; it was the psychotic despair of the woman who dresses her children in their best, takes them out for icecream, walks them down to the nearest bridge, lifts one into the crook of each arm, and jumps over the side.†   (source)
  • Possible complications include Dys thymia depressive neurosis, Major Depression, Psychoactive Substance Abuse, and psychotic disorders such as Brief Reactive Psychosis.†   (source)
  • Psychotics, rocked in the poison cradles of their own egos, want to do everyone handy a favor and take them along.†   (source)
  • Because of his researches for Misery, he had rather more than a layman's understanding of neurosis and psychosis, and he knew that although a borderline psychotic might have alternating periods of deep depression and almost aggressive cheerfulness and hilarity, the puffed and infected ego underlay all, positive that all eyes were upon him or her, positive that he or she was staffing in a great drama; the outcome was a thing for which untold millions waited with held breath.†   (source)
  • Lisbeth Salander is not psychotic.†   (source)
  • Kor-sakoff's psychosis.†   (source)
  • Addison walked on all fours with his snub nose in the air while the man-thing called Grunt scampered around us like a psychotic puppy.†   (source)
  • That's insane, and the most disturbing thing is, you don't even recognize that your explanation only makes you sound psychotic!†   (source)
  • After she jumped through the portal, I stayed on the roof with no company but my new friend the psychotic griffin.†   (source)
  • But the bull appeared psychotic with rage, an animal out of control, and the bucking continued, fierce and unrelenting.†   (source)
  • A determination had been made that Katelya McTiernan wasn't psychotic, but that she was suffering from posttraumatic stress syndrome.†   (source)
  • Prior to those visits, his preconceptions of nursing homes were that they were all dimly lit, filthy places where confused, moaning patients wandered the halls in the middle of the night and were watched over by orderlies who bordered on the psychotic.†   (source)
  • Well, we were chained in a dungeon in Germany, my mother was a power-hungry, psychotic refrigerator, and my best friend and half my flock were MIA.†   (source)
  • He's psychotic.†   (source)
  • She felt it again—that familiar shiver, as if a psychotic snowman had crept up behind her and was breathing down her neck.†   (source)
  • Alice—who had suffered years of Mother's psychotic "disciplinary instructions" on what a burden I was to society in general during late-night drunken ramblings—had had her fill of Mother.†   (source)
  • Psychotics often believed the rest of the world was twisted, when in reality it was they who were tied up in knots.†   (source)
  • A nervous breakdown, psychotic episode?†   (source)
  • After a while I began to manipulate my face as if I were a makeup artist getting myself ready to be filmed for some role as a psychotic or hardened criminal.†   (source)
  • Psychotic, even.†   (source)
  • In the past few years, you've managed to outwit a psychotic vampire who chased you down with the help of thugs the size of dump trucks, as well as a stake-wielding slayer, bent on your demise, who actually stabbed you through the chest.†   (source)
  • They say he had a psychotic break.†   (source)
  • Typical pattern-killer psychosis.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say that Washington had its Mayi Lais and its Medusa, while London has a far more recent military unit led by a homicidal psychotic who left hundreds slaughtered in his wake — few distinctions were made between the innocent and the guilty.†   (source)
  • Psychotic jerk, maybe.†   (source)
  • This is the part where he starts telling me something psychotic about how we knew each other in a past life.†   (source)
  • I may not be able to prevent some random psychotic from finding me in some random location at some random time, but I can control what [ do to him when he gets there.†   (source)
  • Well, Egyptian public transportation, roadside bandits, smelly camels, psychotic Roman mummies, and possessed date farmers … Gosh, it was quite a day.†   (source)
  • It was as if the unacknowledged battalion of psychotics and killers had never existed; its history had been wiped off the books.†   (source)
  • On page thirty-four there is a paragraph in which Björck appears to suggest that Salander be branded psychotic, so that she will not be believed if anyone should start asking questions about Zalachenko.†   (source)
  • As it jumped from bed to bed, killing patients left and right, doctors began to notice signs of mental derangement, psychosis, depersonalization, zombie-like behavior.†   (source)
  • The police claim you're a psychotic killer, but that would mean that I totally misjudged you or that you've changed dramatically over the past year.†   (source)
  • I talked to Teleborian a couple of times and he explained that she was psychotic and that she was getting the best possible care.†   (source)
  • He had no reason to question her guilt or the assumptions of the police—on the contrary, everything he knew about Salander told him that she really was a psychotic madwoman.†   (source)
  • One read: WANTED FOR TRIPLE MURDER The other had opted for the more sensational headline: POLICE HUNT PSYCHOTIC MASS MURDERER They talked for an hour, during which Blomkvist explained his relationship with Salander and why he couldn't believe that she was guilty Finally he asked his sister whether she would consider representing Salander if or when she was caught.†   (source)
  • I would say that she suffers from schizophrenia and is continually balancing on the brink of psychosis.†   (source)
  • All the same, the investigation had been based largely on his analysis of her—as a sociopath on the border of psychosis.†   (source)
  • After all, a Jew and a Catholic in a "suicide pact" (as the Daily News termed it, in a garishly illustrated story on page three), unmarried lovers dwelling in sin, suggestive beauty and good looks, the instigator of the tragedy a young man with a history of psychotic episodes, and so on—this was the stuff of superscandal in the year 1947.†   (source)
  • For an hour she prowled among the sunless, concrete underpinnings of the freeway, finding drunks, bums, pedestrians, pederasts, hookers, walking psychotic, no secret mailbox.†   (source)
  • The ordinary layman would be amazed at the infinite variety of psychotic avenues--no two exactly alike.†   (source)
  • The task of projecting your psychotic image life into the mind of another via telepathy and keeping the hallucinations from becoming sensually weaker is almost impossible.†   (source)
  • Not the hasty, crazy killing of the psychotic, the brawler… but the normal, deliberate, planned, cold-blooded— "For God's sake!†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He was one of those rare World-Shakers whose compulsions might have torn down our society and irrevocably committed us to his own psychotic pattern.†   (source)
  • You are a psychotic genius!†   (source)
  • Not satisfied with having produced a psychotic daughter and three neurotic sons, he had to destroy his daughter's sons as well.†   (source)
  • Until we prove we're not psychotics.†   (source)
  • Education, specialized medical service… analysts like Tate, Gart, @kins, Moselle… criminologists like Lincoln Powell of the Psychotic Division… Political Analysts, State Negotiators, Special Cabinet Advisors, and so on.†   (source)
  • If hallucinations can appear this 'real' to us, to anyone, if hallucinations are catching and almost believable, it's no wonder they mistook us for psychotics.†   (source)
  • Prefect and Psychotic.†   (source)
  • Psychotic!†   (source)
  • The result, of course, may be a disintegration of consciousness more or less complete (neurosis, psychosis: the plight of spellbound Daphne); but on the other hand, if the personality is able to absorb and integrate the new forces, there will be experienced an almost super-human degree of self-consciousness and masterful control.†   (source)
  • 4 "In every primitive tribe," writes Dr. G6za Retheim, "we find the medicine man in the center of society and it is easy to show that the medicine man is either a neurotic or a psychotic or at least that his art is based on the same mechanisms as a neurosis or a psychosis.†   (source)
  • 4 "In every primitive tribe," writes Dr. G6za Retheim, "we find the medicine man in the center of society and it is easy to show that the medicine man is either a neurotic or a psychotic or at least that his art is based on the same mechanisms as a neurosis or a psychosis.†   (source)
  • Do I know about the new generation of antipsychotic medication that could change his life?†   (source)
    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.
  • They don't want to hear about a new generation of antipsychotic meds with fewer side effects because they just don't trust anyone.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Kopelowicz says antipsychotic medication is one of several keys in a case like this, along with strong family support.†   (source)
  • I've had, like, schizophrenia," he says without being asked, telling Ragins he has been on antipsychotic medication in the past, including while living in San Francisco.†   (source)
  • We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic.†   (source)
  • I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Earl's bravura performance as a psychotic fakeGerman-speaking Spanish conquistador was overshadowed by a near-total lack of plot, character development, intelligible dialogue, etc. In hindsight, we probably should have used less footage of Cat Stevens flipping out and attacking one of us.†   (source)
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