as in dementia
a very serious mental illness that makes you behave strangely or believe things that are not true
The patient suffers from some kind of psychosis.
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Recent Examples of psychosis
Other studies have suggested a link between early cannabis use and psychosis in youth.
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NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
Her next movie is the suspenseful Die My Love, about a mother struggling with psychosis.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
Doctors diagnosed him with psychosis, possibly drug induced.
—Coley Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
The strikes in 2023 sounded an early alarm bell about the damage Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy would bring, and LA’s westside was nothing if not Kamala country… before it got burned to the ground in a fire set by someone possibly suffering Chatbot psychosis.
—John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
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NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
Her next movie is the suspenseful Die My Love, about a mother struggling with psychosis.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
Doctors diagnosed him with psychosis, possibly drug induced.
—Coley Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
The strikes in 2023 sounded an early alarm bell about the damage Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy would bring, and LA’s westside was nothing if not Kamala country… before it got burned to the ground in a fire set by someone possibly suffering Chatbot psychosis.
—John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychosis
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Having one copy of the gene roughly doubles or triples the chances of developing the common dementia, while two copies raises the risk by 10 times and lowers the average age of onset by five to 10 years, data shows.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The entire extended family is very tight-knit, supporting Willis after he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a rare condition.—
Sari Hitchins,
Parents,
7 Nov. 2025
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Powers emphasizes that having auditory hallucinations doesn’t always indicate severe schizophrenia and that having a severe case of the condition doesn’t necessarily mean that a person will experience hallucinations.—
Hannah Seo,
Scientific American,
10 Nov. 2025
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Now, Vega works at a group home for people with schizophrenia, many of whom lost their SNAP food aid benefits when the ongoing shutdown froze funding from the US Department of Agriculture.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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Yet today, rising geopolitical instability and a wave of economic nationalism threaten to disrupt the free flows of energy the system relies on — all at a moment when cheaper, cleaner alternatives are available.—
John Kerry,
semafor.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The post 9/11 blunders in which Cheney played a part can be tied to the rise of ISIS, perennial instability in the Middle East, the migrant crisis and the crushing debt burden ($38 trillion and counting) that looms over the US economy.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Psychosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychosis. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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