psychotic

During his summing up, the coroner Mr Justice Rooney ruled out several possibilities, including drugs, foul play, suicide, or a psychotic experience.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Coincidentally, last March, Ward gave the green light for Carruthers’ execution after his attorneys had argued that Carruthers was not competent to be executed because he was “consumed by psychotic delusions.”

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

And to imply that all editors are psychotic, it’s just nonsensical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Laidlaw said: "He was in a psychotic state and had lost contact with reality. He was not able to distinguish what was real and what was not. He was hearing voices and had delusional beliefs."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

“At first they thought bipolar one, but when the delusions got increasingly psychotic, and I started to have auditory hallucinations, they changed my diagnosis to schizoaffective.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

By and large, the world is increasingly run by ignoramuses, wackos and psychotics.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2019

He became known as the Donz and found friendship in an AOL community made up of what he jokingly described as “like-minded psychotics who are as interested in this guy as I am.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2017

While much has been made of its links to other jihadists in Africa and elsewhere, these alliances have little practical effect, being little more than the distant salutes from one group of psychotics to another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2016

Could bad tempers be an outdated luxury of baby boomers? Maniacs, as Jesus said of the poor, will always be with us, though I’m not talking about rampaging psychotics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2016

“Yes. If hallucinations can appear this ‘real’ to us, to anyone, if hallucinations are catching and almost believable, it’s no wonder they mistook us for psychotics.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury