Disorganized Thoughts and Speech

• There are 5 types of disorganized thoughts and speech
• Tangential thinking is individuals going off topic when speaking, making it challenging to follow their train of thought
• Loose Association involves a lack of logical connections between successive thoughts or statements.
• Loose association causes conversations to be disjointed, with ideas flowing without a clear link
• Word salad involves using words and phrases that have no apparent connections, creating a jumble of incoherent languages
• Neologism involves creating new, made up words or using existing words in unconventional ways
• Clanging involves rhyming or wordplay that is onto related to the topic at hand