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 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
• The teams are designed to provide therapy within the first year of the onset of psychosis.
  — Dallas News, 28 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 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
• Is there a relationship between the amount of THC and the risk of developing psychosis?
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Cocaine psychosis led me to Bellevue, then to a homeless shelter, then to begging on the street in Greenwich Village.
  — Colton Wooten, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• For philosophers seek the truth, which is something that can be furnished only to a mind not currently subject to the chimeras of psychosis, of dreaming, or of drugs.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• How long the psychosis lasted and patients’ response to treatment has varied.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• At the time of the shooting, Hinckley was suffering from acute psychosis and was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
• Other conditions the team looked out for were dementia, tremors, paralysis, psychosis, stroke, and swelling of the brain.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2021
• The gap between love and psychosis in Highsmith’s life and work was dangerously narrow.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2021
• Being aware of one's mental health and avoiding Delta 8 if prone to anxiety or psychosis is crucial.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• Hinckley was suffering from acute psychosis and was obsessed with the actress Jodie Foster.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2020
• But prosecutors are trying to undermine the defense’s claim Clancy was in the grip of psychosis.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• This chemical is what creates the side effects of drinking absinthe like hallucinations and psychosis.
  — Alyssa Sybertz, Parents, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024