The look?

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I heard you can tell at times by someones eyes if there pychotic or going through a pychotic episode.

can you explain to me in more detail what the 'pychotic' look is and why people can detect it so easily?

he might qualify-

if somebody looked at me like that, i'd grab my pistol and go hide until he calmed down.

I notice the teeth and eyebrows, but don't see anything all that unusual about the eyes.

everything about jack's face says "REDRUM!"

I only know the thousand yard stare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare
If you click on the first picture to make the size bigger you will see this one soldier and there's also an explanation.
You should click on the link 'Afghan girl' as well.

The other day I had a weird anxiety attack thing.....at first I was mentally calm and just had physical symptoms like sweating a lot(but not from heat), increased heart rate, difficulty with breathing and was shaking a bit(I was forcing myself to control that because I was in class...but I know I was not hiding it that well. Also I was not blinking or anything as much as I should and I had the rather blank stare of too much mental stress going on which made me especially self concious about looking at anyone.

I have not been able to tell from a persons eyes that they were psychotic. What a person says has been the defining indicator, to me. Drugs can induce psychosis though, so perhaps psychosis induced by taking drugs, that affect pupillary reflex, can be detected. In my limited experience, people suffering with psychosis have been eager to share their thoughts, I think because they held such strong beliefs in what they were saying at the time, which made detecting the problem easy, from the standpoint of someone relatively sane.