Paul Gosar

We have a lot of things, you know, as a medical professional, we have to start looking at, some of the, particularly, the transgender issue has to be looked at in the psychotic - the psychosis in regards to the medical community and looking at that application because there's a lot of mixed studies in those regards.

American Politician

Brad Holland

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

American Artist

Douglas MacArthur

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

American General

Jerry Lewis

There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

American Comedian

Marie Osmond

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

American Musician

Eddie Izzard

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

British Comedian

Zadie Smith

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

British Novelist

Thomas R. Insel

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

American Scientist

Helen Suzman

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

South African Politician

Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Irish Dramatist

Psychosis is a serious medical condition, requiring professional diagnosis and treatment.

Mental Health Issue

People with psychosis may experience delusions or hallucinations.

Loss of Reality

Use 'psychosis' in discussions about health, rather than as a casual expression.

Medical Term

Sometimes 'psychosis' describes an unhealthy obsession that disrupts daily life.

Obsessive Behavior

Psychosis can mean overthinking so much it causes a distorted perception of reality.

Overthinking Gone Wrong

'Psychosis' in psychology may not refer to a medical condition but rather a state of mind.

Psychological Jargon

 was offered psychoanalysis he declined saying don't take my Devils away because my angels may flee to my psychosis on the other hand is a waking nightmare in which my Devils are so terrifying that all my angels have already fled so would I take the medicate the pill in an instant that said I don't wish to be

A tale of mental illness...

 because my angels may flee too." My psychosis, on the other hand, is a waking nightmare in which my devils are so terrifying that all my angels have already fled. So would I take the pill? In an instant. That said, I don't wish to be seen as regretting the life I could have had if I'd not been mentally ill,

 In this case, to see dogs. And you can see this is a very strange thing. When perceptual predictions are too strong, as they are here, the result looks very much like the kinds of hallucinations people might report in altered states, or perhaps even in psychosis. Now, think about this for a minute.

Your brain hallucinates...

 and then plummeted into a horrific depression. She had bipolar illness, or manic depression, as it was then known. And then she did very well for many years on lithium, and then eventually, she was taken off her lithium to see how she would do without it, and she had another psychosis,

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 It was good enough to distinguish between a group of schizophrenics and a control group, a bit like we had done for the ancient texts, but not to predict the future onset of psychosis. But then we realized that maybe the most important thing was not so much what they were saying,

Your words may predict...

 these are qualities that are reduced in people with schizophrenia, such as motivation, expression of emotion, or speech. There are cognitive symptoms as well, like difficulty concentrating, remembering information, and making decisions. So what causes the onset of psychosis?

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 but a number of his theories didn't pan out. He classified autism as a form of infantile psychosis caused by cold and unaffectionate parents. These children, he said, had been kept neatly in a refrigerator that didn't defrost. At the same time, however,

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 But there are also less common, more damaging psychiatric side effects like mania and even psychosis. Steroid use can damage organs including the liver and kidneys, and cause cardiovascular problems like high blood pressure.

How do steroids affect...

 who are struggling with postpartum depression and psychosis? Well, despite all of this promise, unfortunately the gulf between our fields remains large. To explain it, I'm afraid I'm going to have to air some dirty laundry.

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 Marijuana can also cause hallucinations or paranoid delusions. Known as marijuana-induced psychosis, these symptoms usually subside when a person stops using marijuana. But in rare cases, psychosis doesn’t subside,