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Disorganized thinking can lead to various thought process disorders that cause tangential thought, disjointed thoughts, a collapse or sudden stop in the thought process, randomly spoken words, and incoherence. Typically, we process our thoughts logically and coherently.
The thought process describes how a patient organizes their expressed thoughts. A normal thought process is typically linear and goal-directed. Common descriptions of irregular thought processes are circumstantial, tangential, the flight of ideas, loose, perseveration, and thought blocking.
Tangential speech or tangentiality is a communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning to the initial topic of the conversation. [1]
Although it’s not the same, flight of ideas does bear some similarities to other phenomena that affect people with thought disorders, such as: Tangential speech: Also known as tangentiality,...
Tangential speech: Tangential speech is similar to loose associations, but connections between ideas are even less clear. Tangential speech is different from flight of ideas because flight of ideas involves pressured speech.
When tangentiality is caused by anxiety it is often short lived, but chronic tangentiality may indicate an ongoing problem with anxiety. People who are victims of trauma may go on tangents either...
Disorganized speech is also known as “formal thought disorder” since language is the primary way to detect changes in your thought patterns. What is disorganized speech? Disorganized speech is...