psychosisnoun [ C or U ]
uk/saɪˈkəʊ.sɪs/us/saɪˈkoʊ.sɪs/plural psychosesany of a number of the more severe mental diseases that make someone believe things that are not real:
She fell into a drug-induced psychosis.
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Mental & psychiatric disorders
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- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- dementia
- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
- melancholia
- paranoia
- persecution complex
- PTSD
- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
- seasonal affective disorder
- Sen
- Stockholm syndrome
- visual variant of Alzheimer's disease
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