psychotic

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They proposed to treat Professor Starson with mood stabilizers and with anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety and anti-parkinsonian medication.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or affected by psychosis.
  2. noun A person affected by psychosis.

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  • The word psychotic was being used in some circles interchangeably with the word visionary, and people who hallucinated without drugs were held, at least theoretically, in high esteem. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • But he was unquestionably psychotic, a mind absorbed completely by the Tyrant archetype. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • Dyleski was wrong, psychotic, and the murder should never have happened. —  7th Heaven by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
  • Nothing would have persuaded them to go into the obscene and obviously psychotic house (psychotic was the only word that fit, anthropomorphic though it undoubtedly was) of the dead Joro. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • It makes some of them psychotic -- like the guy with the sword, hacking up people on the Staten Island Ferry because Jesus told him to do it. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
 

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/saɪˈkɑtɪk/
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