On Language Play and Word Salad in Schizophrenia
Channel: nednednerB the Schizophrenic
Date: 18/02/2017

nednednerB discusses the shape of round brains and more.

Everyone funny and smart plays with language, while some people distort it on purpose for malicious political ends.

Then there are Schizophrenics, who by chance of idiosyncratic neural wiring, are highly prone to "exaggerated and disorderly language usage" and that is just one way to put it.

This symptom called "word salad" can be part of the disorder known as Schizophrenia, where delusion and altered consciousness mingle in odd phrases, confusing utterances, and strange, obsessive meanings. Spelling and grammar are a free for all, and almost no one can actually have a conversation with a Schizophrenic having word salad unless...they are also a Schizophrenic having word salad...

Then it is easy! That's my experience anyway. I feel like I mean a lot and interpret a lot when I'm sick. Notably, it is hard to reconstruct and remember what I say in the ill moments unless someone reminds me.

Such as "Jesus Leather". Why one day before I was hospitalized in 2015 for psychosis did I text my good friend that...?

"I got the Jesus Leather--Don't worry"
I will never -ever- comprehend. __
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