How to Use psychosis in a Sentence

psychosis

noun
  • The patient suffers from some kind of psychosis.
  • But psychosis does not present as a tantrum.
    — Liz Koch, STAT, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Here’s how that might work in the realm of AI psychosis.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For the first time in months, no meth psychosis obstructed my view.
    — Nick Dothée, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Cannabis users now develop psychosis at five times the rate of non-users.
    — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • While a typical high might last a few hours, the psychosis can last for days.
    — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And at high doses, with high-strength strains or long-term use, there is a risk of psychosis.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Doctors stress this does not mean chatbots cause psychosis.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • There is a record, too, of all the ways Luc tried, while in psychosis, to get out of it.
    — Longreads, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Palafox tried again a few days later as her son hid in a backyard shed at home, in psychosis.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 5 May 2025
  • Long-term methamphetamine use, for instance, can cause psychosis.
    — Andrew Selsky and Leah Willingham, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In some ways the country seems as if in the grip of a collective psychosis.
    — Sebastian Shukla, Tim Lister and Clarissa Ward, CNN, 27 June 2019
  • Carlos Reales Dominguez was plagued by his psychosis.
    — Darrell Smith may 28, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026
  • That was followed by six more months of outpatient care and the psychosis was gone.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 31 May 2024
  • Some models affirm signs of psychosis more than half the time when prompted.
    — Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • The cause for the internment was said to be paranoid psychosis.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The psychosis is like one of the three doors in the folk tales, the one that must never be opened no matter what.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Doctors in Italy suspect that a man's herbal tea habit may have played a role in his psychosis.
    — Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, Fox News, 7 June 2017
  • Questions about the cannabis–psychosis link have persisted for years.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2017
  • There is also a small risk of developing psychosis that may be tied to dosage.
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Second, there is a hunch that AI psychosis might simply be a fad.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Some mass shooters have a history of schizophrenia or psychosis, but many do not.
    — oregonlive.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • It has been linked to anxiety, paranoia, and even psychosis in some cases.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The hints and easter eggs that could have passed for symptoms of psychosis before might have been real all along.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
  • What's the psychosis of Homelander killing himself, or at least a guy who looks like himself?
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • This means that psychosis played some role in 30% of mass shootings, but no role 70% of the time.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • There is some history of psychosis, so that’s to be determined.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
  • This could be a sign of early-onset supplement psychosis.
    — Alyssa Brandt, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Chrouch recalls a case of a mother with postpartum psychosis who began to break things in the home.
    — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
  • Pediatric psychosis unfolds over weeks and months.
    — Liz Koch, STAT, 6 Apr. 2026

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