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Question
A type of mental illness in which patients lose touch with reality is ______.
Options
neurosis
epilepsy
psychosis
sedative
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Solution
A type of mental illness in which patients lose touch with reality is psychosis.
Explanation:
Psychosis is a type of mental illness in which patients lose touch with reality. They may experience hallucinations, delusions, and impaired insight, distinguishing it from neurosis, which involves exaggerated but reality-based thoughts and feelings. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by seizures, and sedatives are drugs that calm or induce sleep, not mental illnesses themselves.
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