Sentences with phrase «like psychotic»

I disagree about Fight Club being shut out — Pitt's character plays like a psychotic frat boy — and Edward Norton has been better elsewhere as well as Carter.

She might say she's just complicated, others might use words like psychotic but I suppose it's all perspective.

For me and, I think, most viewers, other horror movie villains like psychotic killers and deadly animals are simply no match for the faceless unknown that feels like a more plausible and insurmountable threat.

Her compulsive giggles are poison and register like a psychotic tick.

Not exact matches

I can not believe that a news source like CNN gives space to psychotic delusions like this author is handing out.

Why on Earth would a dying person want to listen to the psychotic ramblings of a schizophrenic, talking about something like a god?

Their psychopathological vulnerabilities are much like everyone else's — developmental, neurotic, characterological, and (much less commonly) psychotic.

Why is your god psychotic and schizophrenic like this?

blocked, e.g., psychotics, the automaton - like aspects of their personalities dominate much of their behavior.)

I use «like» in it's most bizarre psychotic sense here.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

The question of course is: how does a person like me who is experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena while in an altered state of consciousness know whether or not it is god who is communicating with them?

On researching my experiences I discovered that when some persons engage in intense spiritual practices like intense prayer, meditation etc. it induces psychotic and psychic symptoms as I described above.

@peace2all If you want to spearhead legislation, I sure wish you could get rid of that «freedom of religion» that so many scuzzbuckets like Phelps find so convenient as they do their psychotic crimes against humanity and individuals.

Yes, unfortunately we can't all be obsessive psychotic religious fanatics like you.

i am myself mentally ill, suffering from bi-polar disorder, and have had myself a couple of psychotic breaks, where i would do some really weird things, and to be quite frank, it feels alot like being under a hallucinogenic drug, everything is «real».

But they will keep hammering and yammering like idiots to try and change our country to suit their psychotic agendas.

But this guy is telling you suffering is good while he burns your children alive in his fantasies of Hell, while imagining looking down on your suffering from Heaven where, thanks to psychotic «reasoning», people like him will be pampered forever while being praised for torturing innocent people to DEATH!!!!

With the smell of burned and rotted flesh wreathed around them like wisps of smoke from hell, these psychotic murderers and torturers only want you to say whatever they want you to say.

Surely you must see that a person that posts something like «I hope your cat kills your baby» or «maybe you should die in a fire...» comes across as psychotic and weakens the entire pro-pet argument?

Moore imagined what superheroes would be like if they really existed, and clearly decided they would be paranoid right - wing psychotics with a delusional complex about male power.

In February, the Times Union reported that a mental health evaluation found Rizvi claimed to have been tormented by «psychotic - like symptoms» and nightly visits from a «dark and foreboding figure» who «doesn't want me to have friends.»

«I can't tell you what a psychotic zebrafish looks like but I can tell you what a zebrafish treated with an antipsychotic looks like,» says Peterson.

«People with psychotic - like experiences spend less time in healthy brain states.»

Our finding that psychotic - like symptoms when young people are «stoned» are predicted by AKT1 variants is an exciting breakthrough as this acute reaction is thought to be a marker of a person's risk of developing psychosis from smoking the drug.»

The participants who reported the psychotic - like experiences (PLEs)-- considered to be at the low end of the psychosis spectrum — spent less time in a brain state reflecting healthier brain network activity.

Factors such as poor emotional control, limited coping skills, poor social functioning, and increased stress sensitivity increase a child's risk of experiencing psychotic - like symptoms (e.g., unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances).

«We found it can soar to 81 percent if additional features are present, like a family history of psychotic illness, odd or weird thoughts, and severe social deficits, such as having no friends or withdrawing from contact with others,» he says.

While pre-existing drug - induced psychotic symptoms like hallucinations often disappear after STN DBS, transient psychotic symptoms such as delirium may emerge in the immediate post-operative period.

The resulting text reads exactly like Doctorow's book — if Doctorow were a borderline psychotic who knew English as a third language.

BPD was originally thought to be «on the border» of a psychotic disorder, like schizophrenia, and a mood disorder, like depression.

The study also demonstrates, however, that psychotic - like symptoms without a diagnosis of diagnosis of serious mental disorders do not appear to be associated with physical inactivity.

Those with psychotic - like experiences but no diagnosis are unlikely to be taking antipsychotic medication.

«Although this was a small, preliminary study, it suggests that marijuana may affect individuals at high risk for psychosis differently than other marijuana users, by briefly inducing psychotic - like experiences and impairing their cognition,» said Nehal Vadhan, PhD, a psychologist and associate professor in Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and first author of the paper.

About 10 milligrams of THC can potentially cause toxic psychosis — or THC - induced, psychotic - like symptoms such as delusions — in about 40 percent of people, he says.

Overall, the prevalence of low physical activity was 24.3 % in people with psychotic - like symptoms and no diagnosis and 33.0 % in people with a diagnosis of a serious mental disorder.

The finding that a diagnosis but not psychotic - like experiences is associated with low physical activity may reflect aspects of illness such as low motivation, but may also reflect sedative or other side - effects of therapeutic drugs.

«Marijuana may produce psychotic - like effects in high - risk individuals.»

This feeling of being excluded from the majority could also render physiological consequences leading to sensitisation of the mesolimbic dopamine system, heightening the risk of psychotic - like symptoms in vulnerable individuals.

At the age of 12, participants in the study were interviewed to assess for the presence of psychotic - like symptoms including hallucinations, delusions and thought interference in the previous six months.

Suffering from psychotic - like symptoms at young age is strongly associated with mental health problems in adulthood, including psychotic disorders and suicide.

And her suggestion of a new public enthusiasm for science was supported entirely by the success of TV shows like CSI and Numb3rs, in which geeky, obsessive brainiacs use science to track down psychotic killers who are dismembering young, attractive, too - naive members of society.

A cannabis - like substance produced by the brain may dampen delusional or psychotic experiences, rather than trigger them.

I have the same problems and they are telling me I have mental problems like bipolar or some other form psychotic disorder!

There are also a host of side effects, that could be as minor as sleep disturbances, loss of appetite, and facial tics, to paranoia and psychotic symptoms, other psychiatric issues like bipolar disorder, depression, and suicide in those without a history of the disorders, and at it can be fatal in those that have a diagnosed or undiagnosed heart condition.

Most people who smoke pot enjoy it, but a smaller proportion experience psychotic - like symptoms, such as feeling suspicious or paranoid.

Renton and his pals also hang out with Begbie (Robert Carlyle), a borderline psychotic who loathes junkies even though he drinks like a fish.

She makes the acquaintance of Treat Williams, a handsome if mildly psychotic type who identifies himself as «A. Friend» and behaves like James Dean.

He punished Justin Long's selfish podcast - hosting protagonist from Tusk — a man who profited from other people's misfortunes and felt no shame about cheating on his girlfriend — by making him the prey of a psychotic old man who took his obsession with walruses to a Dr. Frankenstein - like extreme.

We're just supposed to be oh - so - impressed with the psychotic killers that are the Mexican drug cartels (as if we didn't already know that) and with a special agent chick thrust in the world of hardened law - breaking operatives and who ends up behaving like Bambi caught in headlights.