According to Michelle Moriarty’s lawsuit, her husband, a devoted, church-going father of three, suffered a psychotic break in April 2016.
Longtime Sheriff’s Employee Contradicts Official Account of Jail Death|Kelly Davis|September 3, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Near the end of May, Moriarty experienced another psychotic episode.
Longtime Sheriff’s Employee Contradicts Official Account of Jail Death|Kelly Davis|September 3, 2020|Voice of San Diego
That would give doctors time to intervene with those at highest risk, perhaps to watch them more closely—or even to try therapies to reduce the chance of a psychotic event.
Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data|Bobbie Johnson|August 13, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Monis seems to have been both and dedicated to his psychotic beliefs.
The Sydney Astrologer Turned Islamic Radical|Jacob Siegel|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How can we taxonomize their experience, and differentiate it from hallucination, or psychotic break?
Eben Alexander Has a GPS for Heaven|Patricia Pearson|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I had a friend sending me weird emails about conspiracies he saw all around him, but he too had stayed shy of a psychotic break.
The Author Of The Summer's Hit Paranoid Fantasy Opens Up|William O’Connor|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the other hand, the number of accounts from reputable people who are clearly not psychotic adds up.
Is Hell Real?|David Sessions|February 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Would someone with a psychotic disorder be able to be in the CIA and hide it?
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Psychotic individuals often believe things to be true that are not, and they may hear sounds or voices that are not there.
When You Don't Know Where to Turn|Steven J. Bartlett
Yet they were not psychotic and hardly more than mildly neurotic.
Disturbing Sun|Robert Shirley Richardson
In nature's balance, it could be that the refuge on this world most closely resembling your needs is in the mind of the psychotic.
The Inhabited|Richard Wilson
The eyes opened as a hand shook the psychotic Mersey by the shoulder.
The Inhabited|Richard Wilson
But no psychotic was ever butchered up like this; and what I had to do to him to save his life didn't help anything.
Suite Mentale|Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for psychotic
psychotic
/ (saɪˈkɒtɪk) psychiatry /
adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by psychosis
noun
a person experiencing psychosis
Derived forms of psychotic
psychotically, adverb
usage for psychotic
It is preferable to talk about a person experiencing psychosis rather than a psychotic, which reduces a person's individuality