RememberTheApollo_ , 5 hours ago

“Formal Thought Disorder” is a facet of dementia.

How many of these boxes does trump tick where he fails?

Types and examples of disorganized speech

• Symbolism: pairing of thoughts with the correct meaning
• Tempo: the fluidity of words and conversation
• Processing: quality of thought content
• Continuity: direction of thought and conversation

Examples of specific types of disorganized speech may include:

• Paralogism: unusual word choice
• Verbal paraphasia: incorrect word usage
• Literal paraphasia: disordered sounds or sound sequence in words
• Neologism: creation of new words
• Displacement: citing a similar idea but not the correct one
• Contamination: fusing ideas into one another
• Accelerated thinking: rapid flow and increased volume of speech
• Flight of ideas: losing track of where a thought is going
• Inhibited thinking: slow processing of ideas
• Alogia: restricted speech and/or inadequate relay of information
• Circumstantial thinking: inability to determine essential information from unessential
• Desultory thinking: random topic jumps during conversation
• Derailment: sudden drop in train of thought
• Omission: inability to recall a main thought point
• Overinclusive thinking: conversation limits are never identified
• Echolalia: repetition of words or phrases
• Palilalia: fast repetition of words or phrases with decreasing audibility
• Thought blocking: Sudden gaps in thought for no obvious reason
• Verbigeration: nonsensical repetition of words
• Incoherence: complete speech disorganization; “word salad”

psychcentral.com/…/disorganized-speech