How to Use psychosis in a Sentence

psychosis

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  • The patient suffers from some kind of psychosis.
  • This means that psychosis played some role in 30% of mass shootings, but no role 70% of the time.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The state argued that his psychosis was caused by drugs.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2018
  • In some ways the country seems as if in the grip of a collective psychosis.
    — Sebastian Shukla, Tim Lister and Clarissa Ward, CNN, 27 June 2019
  • And at high doses, with high-strength strains or long-term use, there is a risk of psychosis.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The cause for the internment was said to be paranoid psychosis.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • While a typical high might last a few hours, the psychosis can last for days.
    — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That was followed by six more months of outpatient care and the psychosis was gone.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 31 May 2024
  • Other research looks at the DMN in autism and certain types of psychosis.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • What's the psychosis of Homelander killing himself, or at least a guy who looks like himself?
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • In 2017, Faber was diagnosed with acute psychosis with a marked stressor, and left her city job.
    — Heidi Groover, The Seattle Times, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Their daughter Kyla, who was just four years old at the time of the leak, went into a full psychosis, Hughes said.
    — Liz Friden, Fox News, 27 June 2024
  • The teams are designed to provide therapy within the first year of the onset of psychosis.
    — Dallas News, 28 June 2022
  • Taken together, the risk of psychosis is four times higher in the heavy users when compared to non-users.
    — Dr. Stephen McLeod-Bryant, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
  • Other moments played to the psychosis of the tragedy — one set piece being a long corridor with a door at the end of it with a dagger for a knob.
    — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Chrouch recalls a case of a mother with postpartum psychosis who began to break things in the home.
    — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
  • For the first time in decades, researchers may have a new way to tweak brain signals to treat psychosis and other symptoms of schizophrenia.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The psychosis lasts for days, tying up emergency room beds.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2018
  • But in mid-December, after a mild case of Covid-19, he was seized by a kind of psychosis that turned life into a nightmare.
    — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Long-term methamphetamine use, for instance, can cause psychosis.
    — Andrew Selsky and Leah Willingham, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
  • It has been linked to anxiety, paranoia, and even psychosis in some cases.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Syd Barrett’s psychosis haunts the band, whose music never slips far from the vicissitudes of the psyche, the dramas of the ego.
    — James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Even the film’s detractors -- and there are many -- had to admit that Phoenix’s go-for-broke portrait of psychosis is an acting tour-de-force.
    — Brent Lang, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The Cut spoke to a first-time mom about her experience of postpartum psychosis.
    — Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, The Cut, 31 May 2018
  • The company has since had two other dugs, one for psychosis and one for Alzheimer's disease, also reach this stage.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Nearly no one knows about the risks of psychosis ... with marijuana.
    — Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Some mass shooters have a history of schizophrenia or psychosis, but many do not.
    — oregonlive.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The boy did not respond to drugs meant to calm his psychosis, and landed back in the hospital, where he was given a treatment of systemic steroids.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
  • This is not to mention all the rape, torture, psychosis, poverty, and starvation.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 June 2021
  • The study will compare rates of psychosis among those taking varying doses of the medication.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024

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