Not sure what to call what I’m experiencing. I am stammering when I talk, and my thoughts seem to stop mid-sentence, and I have to ask my wife what I was talking about in order to get back on track. Anyone else have this or know what’s going on? It makes me feel pretty stupid and awkward. This isn’t like me. I’m usually very well-spoken and articulate. Getting annoyed with myself…
I get this sometimes- it’s deficits in short term memory (working memory). We have trouble keeping what comes to mind ON our minds.
Is this considered part of a formal thought disorder?
yes- its basic to schizophrenia, all subtypes. Sort of like the problems with metaphor interpretations and paranoid ideation.
I suck at those. I apparently think too literally, when I’m expected to interpret things into some abstract notion that makes no sense to me. My intake at the clinic I go to I had to answer 4 or 5 weird questions. I don’t remember them all, but I do remember what does it mean if I said a rolling stone gathers no moss? I have no idea what they were/are looking for, but I just remember being very confused and wondering what the fsck were they asking me that for. I’m rambling again. dammit.
You’re not rambling, that all made sense and is absolutely congruent with the symptoms of schizophrenia. We do in fact think of things very literally. For example, when I heard “He wears his emotions on his sleeve” I thought it must have means a Sgt. because of the <<< insignia on their sleeves and how military men are good at covering up their emotions when needed.
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It’s not just me? Other people have a problem with abstract thinking? I thought I was just having an off day? If it causes a significant impairment in my functioning, what do I do, @mortimermouse? Can more meds help? SOrry for play 20 Questions.
It’s a common symptom, hence why they screened you for it. It might fluctuate like most symptoms, but we both have chronic pscz so it can be expected to be there to some degree and not just pack it’s ■■■■ up and leave. Meds are not very good at fixing the subtleties of the thought disorder but can help the terrible peaks of it- you said you have trouble making sentences, yeah meds will help with that. Just dont expect meds to make you cured and not think abstractly and give normal healthy responses to a Rorschach test, for example. I am pretty stable and they all look like evil aliens faces and a bat and a bleeding skull and one looks like a submarine.
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I was given this test when I was 12 or 13. I saw demon faces, bats, and some other sinister looking shiat. I thought all this crap was nuanced exclusively to me. Glad I’m not alone!
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Oh buddy, you are not alone. I sit here and blast music to counter the voices in my head while studying. I am pretty damn certain that we have the same brain disease. LOL
Thought the Geodon had the voices pretty well controlled? As for myself, I’m not hearing any voices, but I went through a med switcheroo, and for a while I thought an impostor had replaced my wife with a strange person I don’t know. I slept on the couch, and woke up all the time. Glad that ended. I was uber-paranoid, and had a lot of voices. The voices and paranoia are gone, but I feel a little “off.”
My voices have been triggered a bit as of late by some ■■■■■■■■. My family has highly expressed emotion written all over them. Bipolar sister drama and that bulshit
I can empathize with the voices being worse lately. I’m feeling a little out of sorts myself. For some reason, summer is my worst season mentally. Kinda weird. 
When I went manic and was psychotic I had the exact same thing. I’d start talking and forget what I was saying before I finished the sentence.
Have you went a while without sleeping?
I am feeling a little wierd today.
I just thought how I would feel if I were drinking again,
I think for me it is just some old alcohol craving.