Thought/speech disorder in schizophrenia?
In schizophrenia, a common negative symptoms is alogia (poverty of speech). Also, other listed symptoms are derailment, circumstanciality, tangentiality, etc. which all include speaking a lot about many things (often off topic). So my question is,
Can a person with schizophrenia suffer from both Alogia and Derailment? Could they sometimes speak fast, about many things, jumping from topic to topic, and then sometimes have very little or nothing to say at all? Or is it one or the other?
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I have schizophrenia.
I'm pretty normal on medication,although I tend to not speak at all.
Without medicine I do all the things you just mentioned.
I babble about things no one else is talking about.Say bizarre things that are offensive to some and funny to others.My words sometimes come out funny and I pronounce them wrong.
To answer your question,Both.
I have had both at different times
When I was 18-23 I hardly spoke At all (poverty of speech)
When I was in acute psych ward 15 years later I had derailment or in my case all kinds off stuff like that word salad, talking through the microphone with others and shouting insAne stuff at people in the street
You can't be derailed verbally when you are mostly mute and you can also vascilate quickly from one to the other
I disagree with the person above me... because i have schizophrenia and we know it better then the doctors because we have to live with it....
yes you can talk alot from topic to topic ... and yes sometime nothing to say at all ... and sometime we will talk about wierd things like delusional stuff ... but only manly when we are experiencing a psychotic episode ... if we are on medication things are usually normal ..
oh and sometime you have racing thoughts...
Nobody here is a schizophrenia expert. You'd have to ask a specialist.