Clang Associations -- I'm just hearing about them
Hi,
Blue October has a song w/ them
X Amount of Words by Blue October with lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRgQVh7aDdQ
Here is about./com
http://bipolar.about.com/od/glossary...clangassoc.htm
Definition:
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Clang associations are formally defined as "psychic associations resulting from sounds, often observed in the manic phase of manic-depressive psychosis."
In simpler terms, clang associations are groupings of words based on their sounds, generally rhyming or partially rhyming, without necessarily having any logical reason to be put together.
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http://vample.com/medical-health/loo...-associations/
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Usually, this is manifest through rhyming or alliteration; for example: “I’m slime, dime, do some mime” or “When I think of my dad, rad, mad, pad, lad, sad.” Some clients who clang are also perseverating . Clanging usually occurs among very disturbed clients .
Of course, with all psychiatric symptoms, sometimes a speci?c situation or subculture encourages the behavior, in which cases it should not be considered abnormal .
Flight of Ideas: Continuous and overproductive speech in which the client’s ideas are fragmented. Usually, an idea is stimulated by either a previous idea or an external event, but the relationship among ideas or ideas and events may be weak. In contrast to loose associations , there are some perceivable connections in the client’s thinking. However, unlike circumstantiality, the client never gets to the original point or never really answers the original question.
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What say you? My brain is so slowed down so much I miss most-- not all -- of this when it is spoken. I'm pretty sure I haven't engaged in it. Not since meds knocked me out.
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