Word Salad: High Order Babble and Nonsense in Adults - Day 22 of "100 Symptoms"
Channel: nednednerB the Schizophrenic
Date: 2019-04-13

What do schizophrenics talking too fast to understand them have in common with toddlers? I call it "babble" but in psychosis is it "high order babble." Full words and phrases, but substantially nonsense.

Episodes of schizophrenia commonly include the production of "word salad." Babble often refers to the state of language learning of many 1-2 year old toddlers. They are experimenting with basic sound parts. Later they will learn whole words and sentences.

However, a schizophrenic is usually teen or adult, and they have most of the basic building blocks for language already in place. For them, it is babble of a higher order. It can include play and disorder in more complex structures, such as morphological word parts. Sometimes it involves rhyme and morphology. 

My example on the video is "High order, recorder, reorder the borders." Word salad can verge on the limits of poetry and spiritual expression. Honestly however, the ramblings of a schizophrenic are more random and meaningless. 

I would know, because I barely understand very much of my own cases of word salad. If examples interest you, check out my playlist of many examples of my word salad:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiFG59usOcd_laNBUZNEYYC2v-B4OzqP_

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