Definitions for Psychosis
saɪˈkoʊ sɪspsy·chosis

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1. psychosisnoun

   any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted

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1. psychosisnoun

   A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.

2. Etymology: From or from ψύχωσις.

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1. Psychosis

   Psychosis is a condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real. Symptoms may include delusions and hallucinations, among other features. Additional symptoms are incoherent speech and behavior that is inappropriate for a given situation. There may also be sleep problems, social withdrawal, lack of motivation, and difficulties carrying out daily activities. Psychosis can have serious adverse outcomes.As with many psychiatric phenomena, psychosis has several different causes. These include mental illness, such as schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, sensory deprivation and in rare cases, major depression (psychotic depression). Other causes include: trauma, sleep deprivation, some medical conditions, certain medications, and drugs such as cannabis, hallucinogens, and stimulants. One type, known as postpartum psychosis, can occur after giving birth. The neurotransmitter dopamine is believed to play an important role. Acute psychosis is considered primary if it results from a psychiatric condition and secondary if it is caused by a medical condition or drugs. The diagnosis of a mental health condition requires excluding other potential causes. Testing may be done to check for central nervous system diseases, toxins, or other health problems as a cause.Treatment may include antipsychotic medication, psychotherapy, and social support. Early treatment appears to improve outcomes. Medications appear to have a moderate effect. Outcomes depend on the underlying cause. In the United States about 3% of people develop psychosis at some point in their lives. The condition has been described since at least the 4th century BC by Hippocrates and possibly as early as 1500 BC in the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus.

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1. Psychosisnoun

   any vital action or activity

2. Psychosisnoun

   a disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes

3. Etymology: [NL. See Psycho-.]

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1. Psychosis

   Psychosis refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from psychosis are described as psychotic. Psychosis is the term given to the more severe forms of psychiatric disorder, during which hallucinations and/or delusions, violence and impaired insight may occur. The term "psychosis" is very broad and can mean anything from relatively normal aberrant experiences through to the complex and catatonic expressions of schizophrenia and bipolar type 1 disorder. Moreover a wide variety of central nervous system diseases, from both external substances and internal physiologic illness, can produce symptoms of psychosis. This led many professionals to say that psychosis is not specific enough as a diagnostic term. Despite this, the term "psychosis" is generally given to noticeable deficits in normal behavior and more commonly to diverse types of hallucinations or delusional beliefs. Someone exhibiting very obvious signs may be described as "frankly psychotic", whereas one exhibiting very subtle signs could be classified in the category of an "attenuated psychotic risk syndrome".

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Psychosis in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Psychosis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Psychosis in a Sentence

1. William Reid:

   He was not suffering from acute psychosis.

2. Douglas Scharre:

   I spend a lot of my time in the memory disorder clinic seeing geriatric patients and taking people off medications, mostly ones that have anticholinergic properties, and many times there can be another drug out there that has less anticholinergic impact or is non-anticholinergic that may work, some of the medications that they list in the study may be quite critical and important and are well worth the person taking for their seizures or their psychosis, and so it's a risk-benefit discussion.

3. Thomas Szasz:

   Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

4. Robert Yawger:

   Yesterday was ridiculous. That was expiration psychosis, we have not seen that kind of gyration in quite some time.

5. Diane Carlson:

   Youth marijuana use can have lifelong implications. The risks, which include psychosis, suicide, drug addiction and lower IQs, have been reported based on research on much lower THC potencies than are typically sold on Colorado's commercial market.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Psychosis
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Psychosis
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Psychosis
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Psychosis