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A [[mental]] disorder characterised by gross impairment in [[reality]] testing as evidenced by [[delusions]], [[hallucinations]], markedly incoherent [[speech]] or disorganised and agitated [[behaviour]] without [[apparent]] [[awareness]] on the part of the [[patient]] of the incomprehensibility of his behaviour, the term is also used in a more general [[sense]] to refer to mental disorders in which mental functioning is sufficiently impaired as to interfere grossly with the [[patients]] capacity to meet the ordinary [[demands]] of [[life]]. Historically, the term has been applied to many [[conditions]], for example manic depressive [[psychosis]], that were first described in [[psychotic]] patients, although many patients with the disorder are not judged psychotic.    a severe mental disorder in which [[thought ]] and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with [[external ]] reality [[Psychoses]] is a severe mental disorder in which the person experiences delusions, hallucinations, breaks from reality, and a variety of [[other]] extreme behavioral disturbances. This is severe enough that the person typically has to be institutionalized.  A severe [[psychological]] [[disturbance]] that generally requires hospitalization of the person. serious mental disorder in which [[perception]] of reality and ability to [[communicate]] is impaired. Can be [[biological]] or emotional in origin.  a mental disorder characterized by [[symptoms]], such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality. any severe [[form]] of mental disorder, as [[schizophrenia]] or [[paranoia]]. A severe mental disorder, with or without [[organic]] damage, characterized by derangement of [[personality]] and [[loss]] of contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal [[social]] functioning. : a serious mental disorder (as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions n : any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted