I feel I have a duty to explain what it is like to be psychotic - to be that person muttering at you in the street. But what I really want to explain is that you can come out the other side.

我觉得我有义务解释精神不正常的感觉是怎么样的，就是在街道上会对你默默耳语，但我真的想要解释的是你也会出现另一面的，即另一个自己（译者加）。

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"In our opinion, it is worse if a psychotic person is sentenced to detention than if a nonpsychotic person is sentenced to compulsory health care, " Mr. Holden said.

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Here is a very important point: If the person is psychotic on an ongoing basis -- that is, acting and thinking bizarrely throughout most aspects of his or her life -- then it is of utmost importance to get that person treatment.

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Instead, he said, Holmes' blank, emotionless expression fits what happens in a psychotic breakdown that severs a person's ability to distinguish reality from fantasy.

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