Topic: Logorrhea (psychology)
+Anonymous A — 6 years ago #55,898
In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos "word" and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency. This disorder is also known as press speech. Logorrhea is sometimes classified as a mental illness, though it is more commonly classified as a symptom of mental illness or brain injury. This ailment is often reported as a symptom of Wernicke's aphasia, where damage to the language processing center of the brain creates difficulty in self-centered speech.
+Anonymous B — 6 years ago, 25 minutes later[T] [B] #586,277
lynne is this a wiki pasta cry of help?
·Anonymous A (OP) — 6 years ago, 21 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #586,278
@previous (B)
When a clinician says, "tell me what to do with a comb", to a patient who is suffering from Wernicke’s aphasia which produces the symptom of logorrhea, the patient may respond:
“What do I do with a comb … what I do with a comb. Well a comb is a utensil or some such thing that can be used for arranging and rearranging the hair on the head both by men and by women. One could also make music with it by putting a piece of paper behind and blowing through it. Sometimes it could be used in art – in sculpture, for example, to make a series of lines in soft clay. It's usually made of plastic and usually black, although it comes in other colors. It is carried in the pocket or until it's needed, when it is taken out and used, then put back in the pocket. Is that what you had in mind?”[5]
In this case the patient maintains proper grammar and does not exhibit any signs of neologisms. However, the patient does use an overabundance of speech in responding to the clinician, as most people would simply respond, “I use a comb to comb my hair.”
In a more extreme version of logorrhea aphasia, a clinician asks the patient what brought them to the hospital. The patient responds:
"Is this some of the work that we work as we did before? ... All right ... From when wine [why] I'm here. What’s wrong with me because I ... was myself until the taenz took something about the time between me and my regular time in that time and they took the time in that time here and that’s when the time took around here and saw me around in it’s started with me no time and I bekan [began] work of nothing else that's the way the doctor find me that way..."
In this example, the patient's aphasia is much more severe. Not only is this a case of logorrhea, but this includes neologisms and a loss of proper sentence structure.
+Anonymous C — 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 48 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #586,280
@previous (A)
Simple no's will never do with you, will it? Make it so... you cannot.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 49 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #586,281
@previous (C)
Logorrhea has been shown to be associated with traumatic brain injuries in the frontal lobe as well as with lesions in the thalamus and the ascending reticular inhibitory system and has been associated with aphasia. Logorrhea can also result from a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders including tachypsychia, mania, hyperactivity, catatonia, and schizophrenia.
·Anonymous B — 6 years ago, 59 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #586,282
maybe you're better at brain things than satellite things..
+Anonymous D — 6 years ago, 7 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #586,305
+Anonymous E — 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #586,311
What a LOSER. And he's almost 78 nearly 80.
Omfg the embarrassment.
+Anonymous F — 6 years ago, 8 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #586,317
@previous (E)
And he lives in government housing! LMAO
+Anonymous G — 6 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #586,322
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