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Psychosis
Psychosis is a condition in which an individual becomes disconnected from the world that most people inhabit. It is the defining feature of a psychotic disorder, where a person's thoughts and perceptions are fundamentally impaired, leading to a loss of contact with reality.
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A patient reports a firm belief that their neighbor is secretly a government agent who is replacing their thoughts with new ones via a hidden device. The patient cannot be persuaded otherwise, even when presented with contradictory evidence. This profound disconnection from a commonly shared sense of reality is the central feature of which category of mental illness?