All 8 Uses
psychotic
in
Misery, by Stephen King
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- 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.†
Chpt 1psychosis = any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
- 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.†
Chpt 1psychotic = related to psychosis or someone who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
- 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).†
Chpt 1
- Psychotics can cope in the world, after a fashion, and sometimes, as I think you well know, they get away with some very nasty shit.†
Chpt 2psychotics = people who suffer from psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
- But there's a borderline between the lands of manageable and unmanageable psychosis.†
Chpt 2 *psychosis = any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
- 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.†
Chpt 2psychotic = related to psychosis or someone who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
- Psychotics, rocked in the poison cradles of their own egos, want to do everyone handy a favor and take them along.†
Chpt 2psychotics = people who suffer from psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
- He supposed that, in her deepening psychotic spiral, she had begun to see all of them as poor poor things.†
Chpt 2psychotic = related to psychosis or someone who suffers from a psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted)
Definitions:
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(1)
(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)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)