Look up: psychosis

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   psychosis
   [Noun] A state of severe mental illness.
   Example: As a young man, Robin suffered a psychosis that left him unable to take care of himself.
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   Psychosis
   A psychosis is a medical condition with a biological cause. A psychosis is understood from the biological point of view as having been caused by damage/disease/accident to a person`s physiology and/or genetics. Psychoses (plural) include severe mental disorders characterised by extreme impairment of a person's ability to think clearly, respond emotionally, communicate effectively, understand reality, and behave appropriately. Psychotic symptoms can be seen in people with a number of serious mental illnesses, such as depression, bi-polar disorder (manic depression), and schizophrenia. Psychotic symptoms interfere with a person`s daily functioning and can be very debilitating.
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   psychosis
   [n] - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
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   Psychosis
   Mental state involving hallucinations (disturbances of perception) and/or delusions (false yet strongly held personal beliefs that result from an inability to separate real from unreal experiences).
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   psychosis
   Any major mental disorder characterized by derangement of the personality and loss of contact with reality.
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   Psychosis
   Condition in which a person's perception of reality becomes distorted, often accompanied by delusions and/or hallucinations.
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   Psychosis
   a mental disorder in which a serious inability to think, perceive, and judge clearly causes loss of touch with reality
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   Psychosis
   Term that generally denotes mental illness of a severe degree. In a strict medical context means that that the sufferer`s insight into the illness is impaired i.e. the victim does not understand that they are unwell.
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   Psychosis
   Symptoms of a mental illness comprising of delusions, hallucinations and thought processes
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    Psychosis
    A term applied generally to any kind of mental disorder.
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    Psychosis
    Psychosis: In the general sense, a mental illness that markedly interferes with a person's capacity to meet life's everyday demands. In a specific sense, it refers to a thought disorder in which reality testing is grossly impaired. Symptoms can include seeing, hearing, smelling, or tasting things that are not there; paranoia; and delusional thought ...
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    psychosis
    mental disease in which the patient is not aware of the morbid character of his illness Category: Medicine
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    Psychosis
    Psy·cho'sis noun [ New Latin See Psycho- .] 1. Any vital action or activity. Mivart. 2. (Medicine) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
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    psychosis
    <psychiatry> A mental disorder characterised by gross impairment in reality testing as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech or disorganised and agitated behaviour without apparent awareness on the part of the patient of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour, the term is also used in a more general sense to ref ...
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    psychosis
    noun any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
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    Psychosis
    `Psychosis` is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a `loss of contact with reality.` `Stedman's Medical Dictionary` defines psychosis as `a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal social functioning.` People experiencing psychosis may report hallucinations or delusional beliefs, a...
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    psychosis
    (si-ko´sis) pl. psycho´ses a state in which a person's mental capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to others is impaired, thus interfering with the capacity to deal with life demands. Mental disorders in which psychotic symptoms may be present include mood disorders, schizophrenia, brief psychotic disor...
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    Psychosis
    • (n.) Any vital action or activity. • (n.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
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    psychosis
    any of several major mental illnesses that can cause delusions, hallucinations, serious defects in judgment and insight, defects in the thinking ... [9 related articles]
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    psychosis
    (psych- + -osis) a mental disorder characterized by gross impairment in reality testing as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, markedly incoherent speech, or disorganized and agitated behaviour without apparent awareness on the part of the patient of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour; the term is also used in a more general sense to refe...
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    psychosis
    psychosis (singular), psychoses (plural) 1. A mental and behavioral disorder causing gross distortion or the disorganization of a person's mental capacity, affective response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to others to the degree of interfering with the person's capacity to cope with the ordinary demands of everyd...
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    psychosis
    psychosis (sīkō'sis) , in psychiatry, a broad category of mental disorder encompassing the most serious emotional disturbances, often rendering the individual incapable of staying in contact with reality. Until recently, the term was used in contrast with neurosis, which denoted the ...
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    Psychosis
    (Gr. psychosis, a giving of life or soul) (a) In the general sense, psychosis designates any mental or psychical process, just as a neurosis, in the wide sense is any neural process. (b) In the restricted sense, psychosis designates a pathological condition of mind, just as 'neurosis' is an abnormal condition of the nervous system. -- L.W.
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