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psychotic

[sahy-kot-ik] / saɪˈkɒt ɪk /


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“I was 20 or 21 then. I’d had a psychotic episode and was taken to a public hospital in Massachusetts,” says Palm Springs-based artist Lisa McCord of the self-portrait she later staged.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

That so many people in Minneapolis have endangered themselves by waving phones in the faces of armed federal officers and shouting obscenities as if they were psychotic is one of many unhappy consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Coroner Rachel Spearing concluded he was "in the likely grip of a psychotic episode".

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

"We don't have monitoring figures including how many are taking medication for psychotic behaviour, the effectiveness of that medication and crucially what is available for people apart from medication," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

Embryo is talking about symptoms and hypomania and psychotic episodes when the bell rings.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven




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