psychotics
Those losing touch
Psychotics is the plural of psychotic, referring to people experiencing or prone to psychosis—a mental state involving loss of contact with reality, often marked by delusions or hallucinations.
The term appears in clinical contexts antipsychotic medications help stabilize psychotics but can sound dehumanizing; "people with psychosis" is often preferred.
Informally and carelessly, psychotics describes anyone perceived as dangerously unstable or irrational.
Psychotic disorder with delusions
- schizoaffectiveCombined psychotic and mood condition
- bipolarHaving two opposite poles
- catatoniaPsychiatric movement disorder
- psychopathologyStudy of mental disorders
thought disorder · delusions · hallucinations · negative symptoms · flat affect · anhedonia · cognitive deficits · inpatient
Firmly held false beliefs
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- catatoniaPsychiatric movement disorder
- agitationDisturbed, restless state
incoherence · grandiosity · derailment · word salad · social withdrawal · reality distortion
Imagined or prophetic sights
- voicesSounds producing speech
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- phantomsApparitions, especially illusory
- illusionsDeceptive sensory experiences
figments · distortions · misperceptions · auditory hallucinations · visual hallucinations · unreality · derealization · depersonalization
Apt to cause harm
- violentInvolving physical force
- unpredictableCannot be anticipated
- crazyMentally unhinged
- lunaticDeranged or irrational person
madness · asylum · institutionalization · discrimination · misunderstood · stereotypes · fear · marginalization
Sense of unease about motives
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- distrustAbsence of confidence
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
hypervigilance · guardedness · accusatory · mistrust · plotting · enemies · watched
schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder with delusions
- schizoaffectiveCombined psychotic and mood condition
- bipolarHaving two opposite poles
- catatoniaPsychiatric movement disorder
psychopathology · thought disorder · delusions · hallucinations · negative symptoms · flat affect · anhedonia · cognitive deficits · inpatient · commitment
delusions
Firmly held false beliefs
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- catatoniaPsychiatric movement disorder
agitation · incoherence · grandiosity · derailment · word salad · social withdrawal · reality distortion
visions
Imagined or prophetic sights
- voicesSounds producing speech
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- phantomsApparitions, especially illusory
illusions · figments · distortions · misperceptions · auditory hallucinations · visual hallucinations · unreality · derealization · depersonalization
dangerous
Apt to cause harm
- violentInvolving physical force
- unpredictableCannot be anticipated
- crazyMentally unhinged
lunatic · madness · asylum · institutionalization · discrimination · misunderstood · stereotypes · fear · marginalization · advocacy
suspicion
Sense of unease about motives
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- distrustAbsence of confidence
surveillance · hypervigilance · guardedness · accusatory · mistrust · plotting · enemies · watched
- patientspatient, inpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient