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psychotic

/sahy-kot-ik/US // saɪˈkɒt ɪk //UK // (saɪˈkɒtɪk) psychiatry //

精神病性,精神病患者,精神病性的,精神病

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Psychiatry. relating to, characterized by, or exhibiting psychosis: a psychotic patient;psychotic symptoms;psychotic delusion.
    • : mentally unstable: The man who threw a stone through the convenience store window must be psychotic.
    • : intensely upset, anxious, or angry; crazy: My dad gets so psychotic when I come home even a little bit late.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Psychiatry. a person afflicted with psychosis.
    • : someone who is mentally unstable: Her partner is a psychotic who often uses abusive language.
  1. 1
    • : someone who exhibits extreme emotion or behavior: My brother turns into a complete psychotic whenever his team loses.

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Examples

  • Whether it is political, whether it is self‐serving … I can’t help but think it’s psychotic.

  • The teams would respond to “Marcus” alerts, named for a Richmond man who was fatally shot by police during a psychotic episode in 2018.

  • Daniel Prude was having a psychotic episode on a Rochester street last year when family members called police for help.

  • Richard Widmark’s psychotic Tommy Udo tops himself in every scene for several oh-no-he-didn’t moments.

  • According to Michelle Moriarty’s lawsuit, her husband, a devoted, church-going father of three, suffered a psychotic break in April 2016.

  • Monis seems to have been both and dedicated to his psychotic beliefs.

  • Du Pont, 57, was initially declared “actively psychotic” and unfit for trial by a judge, and ordered to a psychiatric hospital.

  • Abilify is actually a powerful anti-psychotic given to people with severe mental illness.

  • How can we taxonomize their experience, and differentiate it from hallucination, or psychotic break?

  • I had a friend sending me weird emails about conspiracies he saw all around him, but he too had stayed shy of a psychotic break.

  • Of course, being a senile psychotic, he could have considered himself broke even with that amount of money.

  • It was obvious that Pepe was a monomaniac, an egomaniac, and as psychotic as a shorted computer.

  • This was immediately followed by a marked exacerbation of his psychotic manifestations.

  • The distinguishing feature of their psychotic manifestations is that they are provoked essentially by definite situations.

  • The prognosis of the acute prison psychotic complex is good in the majority of instances.