The word
"psychotic" refers to a mental condition where someone experiences a break from reality. It can include symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking.
Full definition
These drugs may briefly produce side effects that resemble symptoms of
psychotic disorders, including changes in perception, delusions, and disorganization of thought processes.
Areas of Expertise: Mental health, social determinants of health and health services use, risk
of psychotic disorder in refugee and immigrant populations
Objective To examine whether peer victimization is associated with
psychotic symptoms in a population - based sample of 12 - year - olds.
A prior study using the parallel CECA questionnaire [24] reported that maternal antipathy was approximately twice as common among individuals
with psychotic disorder as compared with controls [25].
Researchers found no such link and concluded that cat ownership during pregnancy or early childhood does not confer an increased risk of
psychotic episodes in late adolescence.
The likelihood of experiencing
psychotic experiences in adolescence increased with the incidence of nightmares.
«Bullying by siblings has been until recently widely ignored as a trauma that may lead to serious mental health problems such
as psychotic disorder.
The PIER staff believed that her symptoms, coupled with a history of schizophrenia on both sides of the family, put her at high risk for a full - blown
psychotic break with reality.
Of course, everything goes to shit and the city becomes overrun with
psychotic killers who've been altering their genes to gain superhuman abilities.
Protective Factors
for Psychotic Symptoms Among Poly - victimized Children.
«The regular use of cannabis is known to be associated with an increase in the risk of later developing
psychotic illnesses including schizophrenia.
Although people who suffer from psychosis are usually not violent, «there is a small subset of
psychotic people who are implicated in shootings.
New research shows adults who
develop psychotic disorders experience declines in IQ during childhood and adolescence, falling progressively further behind their peers across a range of cognitive abilities.
'» During this period, Martin, who suffered
from psychotic episodes throughout her life, lived in a house on a mesa in Cuba, New Mexico.
Intensive case management decreased hospital resource use in
psychotic patients with borderline intelligence quotient
«Any attempt to help people to monitor, recognise and create strategies to deal with their hallucinations and
other psychotic symptoms in a controlled environment is good,» says David Castle of the Mental Health Research Institute in Melbourne.
That conclusion invalidates the evidence of Drs. Singh and Faltin whose opinions were based on the understanding that the appellant was
not psychotic at that time.
Adolescent depression was the primary interest, but data were collected
on psychotic experiences, anxiety, conduct problems, educational achievement, substance abuse, self - harm, and physical health.
Prolonged use of cannabis is de-motivating, can cause
psychotic conditions and is damaging to physical health.
His interests include
Psychotic Disorders such as Schizophrenia, Learning Disabilities, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities.
Hoping to learn more
about psychotic thoughts, D'Agostino and his colleagues investigated how our brains respond to the bizarre elements of dreams.
And when it comes to people in the throes of a severe
psychotic breakdown, Taylor says antipsychotics are the only option.
A 45 - y - old, married, Caucasian female with a history of diagnosed bipolar disorder with
psychotic features, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, panic disorder, and repeated occurrence of suicide attempts and self - mutilating behavior presented for outpatient management.
The dependent variable psychopathology will be divided
into psychotic symptoms and psychological distress (depressive and anxiety symptoms).
The mother was distraught over the separation and experienced a brief episode of
psychotic depression characterized by delusions, memory loss, and disorientation.
Deglamorized and grief - stricken, Biel is immediately convincing as both a victim, of sorts, and a possibly
psychotic murderer.
Main outcome measures Cox regression analysis was used to estimate adjusted hazard ratios for
non-affective psychotic disorders by refugee status and region of origin, controlling for age at risk, sex, disposable income, and population density.
Among patients living independently of family, those in personal therapy had
more psychotic relapses than those in supportive therapy (p = 0.02).
So it is really just defined as
psychotic behavior, with no attachment to volitional choice on a person's part?
From
psychotic individuals to the comical and even the empire builders, these are our favorite villains in all of gaming.»
Psychological means have often been used to «psychoanalyze» Jesus or Paul, to turn them into undesirable or
even psychotic personalities.
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.
A reminiscence of the early light show in its attempt to formalize the «inner journey» experience induced by
psychotic drugs.
Everything about the movie is top - notch, from Scorsese's daring direction, to Nicholas Pileggi's hard - hitting script (an adaption of his book, «Wiseguy»), to the rock - influenced soundtrack, to some fantastic performances by Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of
psychotic gangster Tommy DeVito.
Polanski's gripping Death and the Maiden shows that, long before Sexy Beast, Ben Kingsley had already proved himself adept at
playing psychotic madmen.
Further proof, as if any more is needed, of the delusional bordering on
psychotic personalities populating the republican party.
Common mental disorder
including psychotic experiences: Trailblazing a new recovery pathway within the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme in England.
As with depressed mothers, authors found less synchronous parent - child interactions among
psychotic mothers [63]; and (6) In terms of attachment styles, synchrony during interactions (high vs. low) predicted children's profiles (secure vs. insecure)[53], [83].
It's a sandbox adventure series known for truly
psychotic villains, Hollywood - style over-the-top action, with guerrilla - style stealth combat.
And I have amicably moved on from past disappointments, so no Glen Close
psychotic man - hating tendencies either!
And second - to - last entry «The Commuter,» one of the most moving installments (featuring Timothy Spall as a depressed guy whose son
suffers psychotic episodes), would be right at home in Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.
«To the extent that this pattern is correct, it would permit me to figure out who's going to get it before [they have their
first psychotic breaks].»
I feel bad for you... it is obvious that you are in denial of your own
psychotic thinking.
One recovered schizophrenic calls her experience with mental hospitals a «revolving door,» and many others can't socialize with other people, even
between psychotic episodes.
Search teams believe he may be suffering from Jerusalem Syndrome - a well - documented condition whereby visitors to the Holy Land experience
psychotic delusions, including the belief they are figures from the Bible.