Download - Form of thought disorders
Form of thought disordersBy: Dima Lotfie
- Form of thoughts is the flow of ideas..
- Cannot be observed directly, therefore language is relied on in form of speech, writing or other symbolic creations.
Form of thought disorders:• refers to disorganized thinking as evidenced
by disorganized speech. • The term 'thought disorder' refers to the
disturbance in one's thought process, which in turn is manifested in the way a person puts forth his/her ideas.
Painting of artist Adolf Wölfli, representing form of thought disorders.
Thought disorders include:
• Flight of ideas• Loosening of association • Circumstantiality• Neologism• Incoherence (word salad)
✦My father sent me here. He drove me in a car. The car is blue in color.Blue color looks good on me, that's why my mom used to buy me a lot of blue shirts..
✦ My mother is very sweet, but she is always getting angry at me. I never get angry because I love everyone, but not everyone loves me.. only my dog loves me. Dogs are man's best friend.. Friends can become enemies.
Flight of ideas
• fragmented ideas; frequent shifts in conversation topics
• Most commonly seen in manic episodes, bipolar disorder and manic phases of schizophrenia.
✦I went to the market. I should read that book.
✦ When did you buy this dress? It's a lovely evening.
✦ I should go for a walk. I feel like having a chocolate.
✦ I need to study for the examination. That movie has received very good reviews.
Loosening of association
• Loosening of association simply means that the patient's thoughts are unrelated.
• Seen mostly in mania or schizophrenia.
• How did you bruise your arm?
• I woke up in the morning, I washed my face and I applied some make up on..then I tried to create some cute style with my hair and then I opened the door and walked out to the parking and opened the door of the car and sat in the car and I started driving while listening to some jazz music and then when I got out of the car I entered the building and hit my arm with the door.
circumstantiality
• Using of excessive details which distract from the central theme of a conversation. (unnecessary details and irrelevant remarks cause a delay in getting to the point.)
• The disorder is often associated with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• Why do people comb their hair?
• "Because it makes a light in life, my box is broken help me blue elephant. Isn't banana brave? I like electrons, hello please!"
Word Salad/Incoherence
• Speech that is unintelligible because, though the individual words are real words, the manner in which they are strung together results in incoherent gibberish.
• a listener is unable to understand the meaning or purpose of the phrase.
• It mostly appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia.
Neologism
• New word formations• Mostly seen in Depression ,Schizophrenia
and Mania.
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