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A mental illness in which contact with reality is impaired.

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  • A true psychosis must be treated seriously by a qualified mental health professional.
  • They are too weak to admin failure psychologically, and this psychosis is the very doctrine the reichwing lives under.
  • I use the term "social psychosis" because a psychosis is a mental state in which a person shows a diminished or loss of a sense of reality.
  • Her psychosis is in fact very similar to that of Osama.
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