situational psychosis

"Situational psychosis results from adrenaline exhaustion.

He was interviewed by a psychiatrist associated with the hospital where the government had intended he serve his commitment, whose diagnosis fit with the prosecution's theory: Priven had suffered a "situational psychosis" after being rejected by Gardner.

His snap opinion was that Smith was both legally insane and medically psychopathic by all normal standards, the victim of a double-barreled situational psychosis of unique and monumental extent, first from being raised by non-humans and second from having been translated suddenly into a society which was completely alien to him.