Economic Psychosis

A delusional disorder born from the extreme pressures and inherent absurdities of late-stage capitalism and financial precarity. It can take two forms: 1) The Grindset Psychosis of the aspiring billionaire who believes they are just "one hack" away from limitless wealth, acting with ruthless, delusional grandeur. 2) The Precarity Psychosis of the impoverished person who internalizes their condition as a cosmic judgement, developing complex superstitions around money, or believing they are trapped in a literal debtors' prison constructed by invisible financial entities. Both reflect a break with the shared reality of economic life.

Example: A crypto-obsessed influencer, deep in debt, begins livestreaming from their car, claiming they are "intentionally manifesting bankruptcy to trigger the quantum wealth singularity." They believe numbers on screens are direct messages from the "market gods," and that by sacrificing sleep, they are "hacking time itself." This is economic psychosis: the magical thinking required to survive (or believe you can win) in a volatile, predatory economic system has metastasized into a full-blown financial messiah complex.

Economic Psychosis by Dumu The Void January 27, 2026

Scientific Psychosis

A rare psychotic break where the language, concepts, and authority of science become the fabric of a delusional system. The individual may believe they have single-handedly solved a grand unified theory, that they are receiving transmissions from a future scientific utopia, or that they are being persecuted by "the establishment" for their revolutionary discoveries. Their speech is a garbled pastiche of technical jargon, and their grandiosity is rooted in a distorted vision of scientific progress. It is the pathological end-state of scientism, where the mantle of science replaces the self.

Example: A failed PhD candidate becomes convinced they have derived a "Theory of Conscious Quantum Gravity" from interpreting the static on AM radio. They write hundreds of pages of equations mixing real terms with invented ones, and believe the CIA is monitoring them to steal the "truth." They stand outside university physics departments, yelling about "suppressed eigenfunctions." This is scientific psychosis: their identity and sanity have been consumed by a desperate, fractured narrative of scientific heroism and persecution.

Scientific Psychosis by Dumu The Void January 27, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Psychosis

A paranoid and grandiose state developing in individuals deeply embedded in militant "skeptic" or anti-pseudoscience communities. They develop a persecutory delusion that they are on the front lines of a literal war against "the forces of unreason," seeing pseudoscience proponents not as mistaken, but as evil, conscious agents of a reality-distorting conspiracy. This can escalate to beliefs that they are being targeted by psychic attacks from "woo-practitioners" or that they must take extreme, "rational" measures (like attempting to "de-program" family members) that destroy their social world. Their identity as a defender of science becomes a totalizing, psychotic crusade.

Example: A moderator of a large anti-pseudoscience forum begins doxxing alternative health practitioners, believing they are "biochemical terrorists." They install EM-shielding in their home to block "homeopathic frequencies" they believe are targeting them. They cut off their sister for seeing a chiropractor, claiming she's been "infected by memetic pathogens." This is anti-pseudoscience psychosis: the ideological framework of combating falsehood has morphed into a schizoid reality where pseudoscience is an animate, malicious enemy requiring vigilante action.

Anti-Pseudoscience Psychosis by Dumu The Void January 27, 2026

pull a PSP 

to fail at the sales, value and quality of a media device (mostly video game related), although the product had a seemingly good initial reaction. Named after the PSP, Sony's unsuccessful console and media device.

Many Nintendo and Microsoft fanboys believe that Sony will pull a PSP with their new home console, the PS3.

pull a PSP by SlevinD December 10, 2008

Peek-a-PSSHHH 

When you are unexpectedly flashed a strangers overgrown, ridiculously hairy pubic hair at a public swimming pool.

When someone is in the water from the waste up and they are very attractive, then they get out up the stairs of the pool and have cornrows down there thighs.. Peek-a-PSSHHH

Peek-a-PSSHHH by JJ1124 September 7, 2012

Poor Shooting Disease (PSD) 

A basketball term where a team simply misses a ton of shots. This can be because the team is actually bad at shooting or because they are in a random shooting slump. PSD is not usually a terminal. Symptoms will start to wane and the team will eventually be healed. Their shooting averages will revert to normal. If the team is just bad at shooting basketballs, they will die a slow and painful death in the form of lost games due to PSD.

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Baller 1: Man, how do we keep losing these games? These teams are terrible.
Baller 2: I don't know man, I think it's a bad case of Poor Shooting Disease (PSD).

Poor Shooting Disease (PSD) by wosh360 January 16, 2016

T.A.Ps 

T.A.Ps is the abbreviation of Tight Ass Pants, also referred to Skinny Jeans or Nut Huggers

Damm bro, what's up with this new generation wearing T.A.Ps??

Ay man, give your sister back her T.A.Ps, ain't nobody trying to see your mangina.

T.A.Ps by Teddygrams254 January 31, 2019