Flight of ideas
from the central theme or main
you’ll notice it when a person
starts talking and they sound
jittery, anxious, or very
excited.
The pace of the person’s speech
may pick up, and they speak
rapidly, with a tendency toward
changing the subject
frequently. The new subject may
be related to the preceding
subject, but it might not. The
connection might be very weak.
Though blocking
medical or psychological
phenomenon in which a person is
talking about a particular
subject and then abruptly
changes to another subject.
Thought blocking is a type
of thought disorder associated
with disrupted speech
processes.
When thought blocking, people
may express themselves in a
manner that is not
understandable to others. They
may repeat words involuntarily
or make up new words
Circumstantiality
Circumstantiality is defined as
circuitous and non-direct
thinking or speech that
digresses from the main point
of a conversation. An
individual that displays this
characteristic includes
unnecessary and insignificant
information which, although
sometimes relevant, distracts
point of a conversation. The
over-inclusion of this
extraneous information, can
make it difficult to both
follow the speaker’s train of
thought or arrive at a
meaningful answer to a
question. Eliciting information
in clinical situations
from circumstantial
patients may be difficult and
time-consuming.
Bizarre delusions
Delusions are deemed bizarre if
they are clearly i mplausible,
not understandable, and not
derived from ordinary l ife
experiences (e.g., an
individual's belief that a
stranger has removed his or her
internal organs and replaced
them with someone else's organs
without leaving any wounds or
scars).
Delusions
False fixed beliefs not in
keeping with the culture.
Hallucination
may occur in any sensory
modality (e.g., auditory,
visual, olfactory, gustatory,
and tactile), but auditory
hallucinations are by far the
most common. Auditory
hallucinations are usually
experienced as voices,
whether familiar or
unfamiliar, that are
perceived as distinct from
the person’s own thoughts.