| 单词 | psychosis |
| 释义 | psychosis (once / 5388 pages) n If your Uncle Marvin starts talking to his furniture and sewing his own clothes out of newspapers, he may be suffering from psychosis, which is a serious psychiatric illness in which a person loses touch with reality. The Greek psykhe, or "mind" combines with the Latin suffix -osis, "abnormal condition," to form the word psychosis. An "abnormal condition of the mind" sounds like it could describe a lot of mental conditions, and in fact psychosis is a broad term that covers many different disorders. The symptom that those who suffer from psychosis have in common is that they don't experience reality in the same way that most people do; they may hallucinate, or see and hear things that aren't really there. WORD FAMILYpsychosis: psychoses, psychotic+/antipsychotic: antipsychotics/psychotic: antipsychotic, psychotically, psychotics USAGE EXAMPLESMany women with menstrual problems like excessive bleeding or pain, or endometriosis, or menstrual migraines or menstrual psychosis, are helped tremendously by skipping their periods. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) Chantix’s updated label will still mention reports of psychosis, paranoia, anxiety and other problems. Washington Times(Dec 16, 2016) It was clearly influenced by classic directors – Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg – but with this strange psychosis. The Guardian(Dec 12, 2016) n any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted Hypo|Hyper DTs, delirium tremens acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning paranoiaa psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosisany of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact borderline schizophrenia, latent schizophreniaschizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia catatonia, catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophreniaa form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophreniaa form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophreniaa form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner acute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophreniaschizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months) mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention |
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