pressured speech
Compulsively fast speech
Pressured speech is rapid, urgent talking that's difficult to interrupt—the person seems driven to keep speaking.
It's a clinical term in psychiatry, often associated with mania or stimulant use: The patient exhibited pressured speech and racing thoughts.
The speaker may jump between topics or talk over others, as if the words must come out.
- logorrheaCompulsive excessive wordiness
- hypomaniaMild manic state
- manic episodePeriod of abnormal elation
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- rapidMoving with haste
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- bipolar disordermania, hypomania, bipolar II, cyclothymia, manic episode
- psychosishallucinations, psychosis, delusions, delusion, schizophrenia
- speech disordersstuttering, stammering, stammer, dysarthria, lisp
- speech problemsstuttering, stammering, slurring, mumbling, slurred words
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, loquacity
- involuntary speechblurting, exclamations, outbursts, Freudian slip, Freudian slips
pressured speechflat affect
Diminished emotional expressiveness
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