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nocoincidences
(2,195 posts)This is what psychologist/psychiatrists call a "word salad".
There are lots of words, but there is no meaning, no content. No one has any idea what he is talking about.
The man is demented, I mean seriously demented.
I can't even believe that he is in the position he is, when he has been deteriorating in front of our eyes, for years, now.
Who on Earth can listen to this and think this is a normal person?
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Check it out, half-way down the page.
"Thought Disorder" is associated with schizophrenia.
[link:https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787025/all/Thought_Disorder|
DEFINITION
Formal thought disorder refers to an impaired capacity to sustain coherent discourse, and occurs in the patients written or spoken language.
Whereas delusions reflect abnormal thought content, formal thought disorder indicates a disturbance of the organization and expression of thought.
Indeed, the most basic assessment of thought content requires at least some degree of language competence.
For research purposes, scales have been developed to study the quality and severity of abnormalities in thought, language, and communication.
In clinical practice, formal thought disorder is assessed by engaging patients in open-ended conversation and observing their verbal responses.
A number of medical and surgical conditions can affect language performance; the term formal thought disorder is used when these conditions are excluded from the diagnosis.
The cause of formal thought disorder is not established. Research has implicated abnormalities in the semantic system in patients with schizophrenia.
Thought disorder is often accompanied by executive function problems and general disorganization.
Abnormalities in language are common in the general population, in everyday conversation. Thus, the categorical presence or absence of the following language problems is not absolutely diagnostic of any condition. However, heightened frequency and severity of these problems should be noted by the physician and accounted for in the patients diagnostic formulation.
Formal thought disorder descriptors (adapted from the Thought, Language, and Communication scale)[1]:
Poverty of speech: restricted quantity of speech; brief, unelaborated responses
Poverty of content of speech: adequate speech quantity with prominent vagueness and inappropriate level of abstraction
Pressure of speech: increased rate and quantity of speech; speech may be loud and difficult to interrupt
Distractible speech: topic maintenance difficulties due to distraction by nearby stimulus
Tangentiality: Replies to questions are off-point or totally irrelevant.
Derailment (loosening of associations): spontaneous speech with marked impairments in topic maintenance
Incoherence (word salad, schizaphasia): severe lack of speech cohesion at the basic level of syntax and/or semantics within sentences
Illogicality: marked errors in inferential logic
Clanging: speech in which word choice is governed by word sound rather than meaning; word choice may show rhyming or punning associations
Neologism: the creation of new "words"
Word approximations: unconventional and idiosyncratic word use
Circumstantiality: excessively indirect speech; speech is liable to be overinclusive and include irrelevant detail
Loss of goal: difficulty in topic maintenance in reference to failure to arrive at the implicit goal of a statement
Perseveration: excessive repetition of words, ideas, or subjects
Echolalia: speech repeats words or phrases of interviewer
Blocking: interruption of speech while ostensibly in pursuit of a goal
Stilted speech: odd language use that may be excessively formal, pompous, outdated, or quaint
Self-reference: The patient is liable to refer the subject of conversation back to him/herself.
Paraphasic error (phonemic): word mispronunciation, slip of the tongue
Paraphasic error (semantic): substitution of an inappropriate word to make a specific statement
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Cha
(295,929 posts)Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)n/t
lastlib
(22,981 posts)the fact that he's a FUCKING MORON, or the fact that he's a FUCKING LUNATIC!!
Persuade me.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)Coupled with a narcissist personality.
The dementia will progress, getting worse over time.
The narcissist part will get stronger. The brakes are compromised. Like a person intoxicated, the dark side can come out.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)And play it whenever some Twitter Rose or Trumper trys to say that Biden is Addled or that Trump will "steamroll" him in a debate.
You're going to have this guy rambling on and on, saying somebody is asking him a nasty question, or talking about Obama while Biden makes impassioned and empathetic connections to voters on the things that they are most worried about.
Besides that, there is a decent chance that the debates are held without an in house audience, which will hurt Trump.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)That'll hurt him too.
Lock him up.
(6,874 posts)Link to tweet
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In fact, he has zero interest in governing (which requires reading your own reports)