lose touch
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Psychosis is a mental health condition where someone can lose touch with reality, involving symptoms like hallucinations and delusions.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
“Just when did it happen,” Roy asks himself, “when exactly did you lose touch with your own humanity?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
If clinicians could better distinguish voice hearers who develop psychosis and lose touch with reality from those who don’t, he thought, then maybe he could help steer more patients down a healthier path.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
But when they are bulldozed, their inhabitants lose touch with friends, documents, caseworkers, and public services.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2025
We were starting to become friends, but once we weren’t carpooling anymore, we’d probably lose touch.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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