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Home > Health A â Z > Psychosis. A severe mental disorder in which a person loses the ability to recognize reality or relate to others. Symptoms include being paranoid, having false ideas about what is taking place or who one is, and seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there. PubMed Health Glossary.
Everyday insanity: Psychosis and the mundane. Psychosis is usually considered as the least mundane of mental states. Occasionally however, the mundane and the psychotic collide, producing uncanny and jarring contrasts that highlight the unreality of everyday life. Delusions and hallucinations, by definition, are atypical to the humdrum of everyday mental life.