Psychosis

The act of not having enchanter have a function other than the original rune in shadowbane. This lack of changing an usable rune has resulted in easily 500 people not playing shadowbane.

You must be in psychosis bud.

Psychosis by PP-Peekachew July 24, 2022

psychosis apotheosis 

A term referring to the highest level of craziness recently shown by the 45th POTUS.

We may have started to witness the true psychosis apotheosis as his extraordinary untruths continue to unfold and multiply.

psychosis apotheosis by Dr Bunnygirl October 29, 2019

psychosis Gun 

A one-handed weapon in Perfect Dark similar that looks like a tranquilizer gun and fires with the use of air cartridges. When accurate contact is made at anything with uptarded or higher brain capacity, it will psychically link to the victim's mind and subject them to the shooter's bidding.

"If I ever owned a psychosis gun, there would be a lot of bank robberies and missing women."

psychosis Gun by sux0r September 24, 2003

psychosis for birds 

Modern exotic birds are prone to fits of passion and rage while working long term in the sex industry. Psychosis for birds is quite common under these psycho-sexual thrillers and their show tune escapades. Commonly the only course of action is to allow the birds their freedom to roam to the coast and sit on decrepit piers to keep their sanity.

Like an exotic bird perched atop a weathered pier on a far-away coastline, the psychosis for birds crept up slowly.

psychosis for birds by jigoku February 21, 2008

Psychosis Slurs

Derogatory terms that use psychotic experiences as metaphors for nonsense, chaos, or unreliability. These slurs (e.g., "That idea is psychotic," "What a schizo take," "He's delusional") casually equate severe mental distress with being wrong, stupid, or untrustworthy. They stigmatize clinical conditions by making them synonyms for intellectual or moral failure. In discourse, they are used to pathologize an opponent's position, shutting down debate by implying their very cognition is diseased and thus their arguments are not just incorrect, but symptomatic.

Example: During a complex debate on economic theory, one participant presents a heterodox model. A critic, instead of engaging the math, tweets: "This schizoid economics is just word salad. The author is clearly off his meds." The slurs "schizoid" and "off his meds" transplant the discussion from the realm of ideas to the realm of pathology. They don't argue; they diagnose, rendering the theory and its proponent inherently illegitimate. Psychosis Slurs.

Psychosis Slurs by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Psychosis Bigotry

Systemic discrimination and prejudice against people who experience psychosis, based on the assumption that their perceptions and thoughts are inherently less valuable, reliable, or meaningful. This bigotry extends beyond stigma to affect healthcare (where physical complaints are dismissed as "psychosomatic"), legal rights (deemed unreliable witnesses), housing, and employment. It operates on the core belief that the psychotic mind is a broken version of a "normal" mind, rather than a different way of being that might contain unique insights or perspectives, however distressingly framed.

Example: An artist with a schizophrenia diagnosis creates profound, intricate paintings inspired by their visual hallucinations. The art world criticizes it as "outsider art" (a ghettoizing category) and focuses solely on the diagnosis as a novelty. A gallery show is titled "Art of Madness." This is psychosis bigotry: it reduces the artist's complex creative process and lived experience to a symptom, fetishizing their condition while denying them the status of a deliberate, skilled artist. Their mind is seen as a source of spectacle, not intellect.

Psychosis Bigotry by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Psychosis Card

Similar to but broader than the "Delusion Card," this is the accusation that someone's entire perception of reality is broken due to a psychotic break, often because they endorse a belief system the accuser finds utterly incomprehensible or dangerous. It's not just that they have one wrong idea, but that their entire cognitive framework is detached from consensus reality. This shuts down conversation by declaring the speaker insane.

Example: Someone arguing that we live in a simulation might be met with, "You've officially pulled the psychosis card. Touch grass. Talk to a real person." It labels a philosophical or speculative stance as evidence of a severe mental health crisis, barring any further discussion.

Psychosis Card by Abzugal February 3, 2026