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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

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