psychosis

• I also want to add that true psychosis, the true term for one actually losing touch with reality and having actual delusions and hallucinations, is the term for actual mental disorders, that may or may not have significant emotional aspects to them. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
• Mr. Langman's examination of those writings suggests that Mr. Klebold showed signs of psychosis, a mental disorder in which the personality is disorganized and out of touch with reality. —  Education Week American Education News Site of Record
• 'Kristin Chenoweth has just been cast in: "Skippy Pylon, a cheerful and brilliant attorney who nonetheless exhibits flashes of psychosis -- and enjoys being mistaken for a teenager." —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• Ridding our people from this psychosis will be a long process, but it needs to start somewhere. —  Subzero Blue
• It is an ontic-psychosis, a psychosis not of the mind but of existence, the existence of the merciless electrical current that bonds the crowd with the famed-ego. —  Pitchfork: Latest News

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