out of contact to a thorough extent with the present timeenvironment and not computing into the future. The condition may be acute wherein one becomes psychotic for only a few minutes at a time and only occasionally in certain environments (as in rages or apathies) or it may be a chroniccondition, or a continual disconnection with the future and present. A psychotic person who is dramatically harmful to others is considered dangerous enough to b e put away. A psychotic person who is harmful on a less dramatic basis is no less harmful to their environment and is no less psychotic. —AcademyLevel IV Glossary