#disorganized thinking

[221bluescarf]

suddenly losing your thoughts, getting lost, forgetting how to do simple things, getting tasks scattered, freezing up, being unable to speak or speaking incoherently is embarrassing and hard to explain when someone is staring at you. Not getting anything done and not finishing responsibilities can make anyone feel self-conscious and guilty. It's ok. Just try your best.

[cytochrome-symbolz]

paranoia

delusion

persecutory delusion

delusion of grandeur

disorganized thinking

disorganized speech

anhedonia

visual hallucination

tactile hallucination

auditory hallucination

heyyyyyy @thecouncil-aac soup's on!!! i have more to do for yall but tumblr only lets me upload 10 at a time

[thecouncil-aac]

We brought up using AAC to our therapist, and seeking accommodations to be allowed to use it during class as needed

She's not against it, but is prioritizing finding and working on the cause of the speech loss episodes, which...

We think she thinks it's an anxiety thing (which is reasonable), but it's not quite it for us, not entirely, at least

We do have/had selective mutism/vocal shut-downs due to anxiety, but it hasn't really happened since being medicated for the chronic anxiety over a year ago - during these, it feels like we get choked up, words unable to escape us, too frightened to speak

The speech loss episodes we've been having "recently" aren't induced by anxiety, we feel calm yet unable to speak, not choked up, but as if our voice box just... stops working. Unlike the anxiety induced ones, we can't make sounds. Sometimes we're fully mentally present, other times we feel like our thoughts are all scrambled - disconnected but not dissociative

When we struggle to speak because of dissociation, it feels like our voice is floaty, wispy - there but hard to control, drifting in and out

[sickteeth-archive]

art journal // 090920

[ceramic-cat]

I was discussing things with a friend of mine, and we both noticed this trend lately of people who are clearly having a disorganized episode being made fun of on tumblr.

It’s not okay. I know that a lot of tumblr understands psychosis as something that causes you to see scary hallways or hear voices, but that’s not the only symptom of psychosis.

I won’t make mention of the post in particular, because the inidivual that made the post that inspired this one is already getting harassing anons about it, but consider for a moment that if you see someone replying to a post in a way that seems disjointed, rambly or “off”, maybe don’t jump to making fun of them for it. On top of tumblr having some bizarre social rules I would love to study some day, disorganized thinking is something people do experience.

You all do love to say support psychotic people, but as soon as they exhibit symptoms other than visual or auditory hallucinations you jump to make fun of them, and that’s just not right. Think before you make fun of someone for behaving “weirdly”. You are just being cruel for no reason.

[goodglass01]

Disorganized Thinking 

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[schizosupport]

Hey I just wanted to ask abt hhh I have what I call a brain stutter??? So like I very rarely stutter when I talk (I do when Im panicking tho) but like the thoughts in my head are constantly stuttering and stopping and starting and talking over each other and sometimes it repeats the same word or phrase over and over and over again. Is that how "disorganised thinking" works???? Or at least part of it? I've never met anyone else who experiences it the same way as me

Hey!

I’m sorry it took me a while to get back to you. I have the exact same thing, my thoughts are super disconnected, when verbal at all, and it keeps repeating phrases and lines from songs and stuff like that.

So you’re definitely not alone!! Now, whether this is disorganized thinking, is somewhat hard to say. Basically, generally speaking, disorganized thinking refers to the way we express our thoughts outwardly (eg. the way we speak) - this is typical of a diagnostic system that places more emphasis on observable symptoms than subjective experience..

I’m sorry I’m actually really unsure here, because of the way most “professionals” don’t take our first-hand experiences into account..

Followers, do you recognize yourself in me and anon’s experience? 

Cat

[psychotic-spectrum]

Hi, can I have some examples of phychosis? Scrolling through your feed kinda has me really thinking I may have it.

For what I can think on the top of my head, some examples of psychosis can be paranoia that turns into delusions, delusions, hallucinations of all kind (visual, auditory, tactile, olfatory), magical thinking, disorganized thinking, etc.

The causes vary and they don’t necesarilly mean you have schizophrenia, they can be part of other psychotic disorders like psychosis NOS, schizoaffective disorder and delusional disorder, among others.