psychotic

Example Sentences

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Standard anti-nausea medications often do not work reliably, he said, which sometimes forces clinicians to turn to second and third-line options such as Haldol, a medication more commonly used for psychotic episodes.

From Science Daily

I see it as a deeply intimate, devastating, life-affirming, life-depleting, psychotic, meditative, euphoric, addictive struggle of building something where before there was nothing.

From Los Angeles Times

It was believed this could reduce psychotic or schizophrenic symptoms, and somehow "re-set" a patient's brain.

From BBC

"There is no motive or normal psychological explanation" for the attack, said presiding judge Karsten Krebs, adding that O. had acted during an "acute psychotic phase of schizophrenia".

From Barron's

Alice’s thoughts spin out of control; she grows paranoid and reckless; soon she is in the grip of a complete psychotic breakdown and has to be institutionalized.

From The Wall Street Journal