psychosis به انگلیسی
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From Longman Dictionary
psy‧cho‧sis /saɪˈkəʊsɪs $ -ˈkoʊ-/ noun (plural psychoses /-siːz/) [countable, uncountable]
a serious mental illness that can change your character and make you unable to behave in a normal way
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Example
It is described as a psychosis, which is characterised by a distortion in the person’s perception of reality
Such an image, read in psychological terms, would be the image of a psychosis
Over 70 percent of both groups were considered psychotic, with rather more men schizophrenic and rather more women suffering affective psychosis
Breier and his colleagues wanted to know which area of the brain was involved in this ketamine psychosis
There have also been reports of psychosis following overuse