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affective psychosis

noun

  1. a severe mental disorder characterized by extreme moods of either depression or mania

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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As a preteen, Andrus was diagnosed with affective psychosis.

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He’d been diagnosed with affective psychosis, and he’d started selling his mother’s pills at school, in an attempt to earn money to help his family.

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