derangement

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"With Miss Havisham, it's quite interesting to have that at least as 5% of the character: ' I know what I'm doing. I know what this is.' It's not derangement, it's not insanity."

From Salon

But the sheer derangement of its plot and a bizarre casting gambit make it more interesting than standard straight-to-streaming schlock.

From New York Times

Author Amitav Ghosh has correctly given this ailment of imaginative deficiency a name, redolent of psychopathology: Our inability to apprehend the reality of ecological catastrophe is nothing less than “derangement.”

From Seattle Times

We were labeled as being hysterical or crazy, and told that we suffered from "Trump derangement syndrome."

From Salon

Those same gatekeepers tended to dismiss warnings about rising American fascism and right-wing political violence as being hysterical or hyperbolic signs of "Trump derangement syndrome."

From Salon