How to Use psychosis in a Sentence

psychosis

noun

• 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
• Questions about the cannabis–psychosis link have persisted for years.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2017
• The psychosis lasts for days, tying up emergency room beds.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2018
• The American psychosis of mass shootings isn’t just a gun problem.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The study will compare rates of psychosis among those taking varying doses of the medication.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• The psychosis occurs when the mania exhausts itself, when the encounter with reality is the only thing left for it (and mania fears reality more than anything else).
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024