Terms to Describe Thought Process & Type of Delusions

Flight of idea

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• Frequently changing topics

Tangential

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• Going way from a topic and not returning

Circumstantial

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• Provides unnecessary detail but eventually gets to the poin

Neologisms

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• making up new words

Looseness of association

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• logically shifting between topics

Word salad

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• Nonsensical responses

Clanging

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• Rhyming words, Speech makes no scence

Thought blocking

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• speech is stopped

Poverty of speech

Terms to Describe Thought Process

• limited content of speech

Grandiose

Type of delusion:

• e person is someone of extreme importance

Persecutory

Type of delusion:

• A false belief that the person is being followed is under surveillance, being ridiculed or treated unfairly

Jealousy

Type of delusion:

• Belief that individual's sexual partner is unfaithful
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Religious

Type of delusion:

• Belief in a special status with God

Somatic

Type of delusion:

• a physical defect or general medical condition when none exists

Ideas of reference

Type of delusion:

• Belief that things in the environment refer to them when they do not

Thought insertion

Type of delusion:

• Belief that someone is putting ideas or thoughts into their mind

Thought broadcasting

Type of delusion:

• Thinking that one's thoughts are being “broadcasted” to the outside world.