From: PointedEars@web.de
Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 12/07/2025 06:07 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> On 12/07/2025 05:59 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> [incoherent rambling, word salad]
>> [incoherent rambling, word salad]
> [incoherent rambling, word salad]
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| A word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random
| words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a
| neurological or mental disorder. [...]
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| Word salad may describe a symptom of neurological or psychiatric
| conditions in which a person attempts to communicate an idea, but words
| and phrases that may appear to be random and unrelated come out in an
| incoherent sequence instead. Often, the person is unaware that they did
| not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia,[3]
| as well as after anoxic brain injury. In schizophrenia, it is called
| schizophasia.[2] Clang associations are especially characteristic of
| mania, as seen in bipolar disorder, as a somewhat more severe variation of
| flight of ideas. In extreme mania, the patient's speech may become
| incoherent, with associations markedly loosened, thus presenting as a
| veritable word salad.
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| It may be present as:
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| * Clanging, a speech pattern that follows rhyming and other sound
| associations rather than meaning
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| * Graphorrhea, a written version of word salad that is more rarely seen
| than logorrhea in people with schizophrenia[4]
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| * Logorrhea, a mental condition characterized by excessive talking
| (incoherent and compulsive)
|
| * Receptive aphasia,[5] fluent in speech but without making sense, often a
| result of a stroke or other brain injury
(I hope that it is still possible for you to) get well soon.
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