For example, you may not talk because you hear voices that tell you not to speak. Or you might not talk because you feel nervous or paranoid around other people. In general, social situations can make alogia worse. That's because it can be hard to think when there's a lot going on.
Alogia typically presents in two ways: You have difficulty speaking spontaneously and may give short replies to questions (poverty of speech). You tend to talk extensively but have difficulty communicating information well (poverty of content).
An example of alogia is the response, "Mow" to the question, "What do you do for a living?" A person without alogia may respond with, "I have a landscaping business where I mow lawns." Very short, one-word answers are a common outcome of alogia.
Symptoms of alogia may include: Marked decrease in frequency, amount, or quality of speech. Being unable to remember or recall certain words. Using fewer words or a restricted vocabulary.
Alogia can also be a secondary effect, resulting from primary symptoms such as psychosis or anxiety. For example, you might choose not to speak, because there are voices in your head threatening you if you do. Similarly, you might not speak due to feeling paranoid around other people or nervous/anxious.
Most common among these are poverty of speech (alogia), increased pausing, reduced variation in intonation (monotone speech), and disturbances in the (discursive) coherence, such as derailment and tangentiality6,7,8.
For example, they might say something like, “I went to the store today, soccer is a boring game, grapefruit is too sour.” The psychological term this way of speaking as “derailment.” These disorganized speech patterns can affect a person's social skills, making it difficult for them to communicate effectively and ...
Negative symptoms include decreased thought and speech productivity (alogia), loss of ability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), decreased initiation of goal-directed behavior (avolition), and speech with little or no change to their tone, little or no change in their facial expression, even if they are talking about ...
Affective flattening, alogia (poverty of speech), and avolition (an inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities) have been included in the definition of schizophrenia while other symptoms such as anhedonia (loss of the ability to find or derive pleasure from activities or relationships) have been ...
Alogia: lack of speech output. Mutism: complete absence of speech.
People with disorganized speech might speak incoherently, respond to questions with unrelated answers, say illogical things, or shift topics frequently. Signs of disorganized speech involve the following: Loose associations: Rapidly shifting between topics with no connections between topics.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Compulsive talking may be a symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. In this case, compulsive talking often manifests as a relentless need to self-promote or belittle others.
In psychology, alogia (/ˌeɪˈloʊdʒiə, əˈloʊdʒiə, əˈlɒdʒiə, -dʒə/; from Greek ἀ-, "without", and λόγος, "speech" + New Latin -ia) is poor thinking inferred from speech and language usage.
The subtypes of negative symptoms are often summarized as the 'five A's': affective flattening, alogia, anhedonia, asociality, and avolition (Kirkpatrick et al., 2006; Messinger et al., 2011).
In this early phase of schizophrenia, you may seem eccentric, unmotivated, emotionless, and reclusive to others. You may start to isolate yourself, begin neglecting your appearance, say peculiar things, and show a general indifference to life.
In essence, avolition involves a lack of ability, whereas laziness involves a lack of will. For example, a person with avolition may feel unable to make plans or engage in social activities, whereas someone experiencing laziness may feel able but unwilling to make plans or engage in social activities.
Clanging means that a person chooses words based on their sound associations rather than their meaning. People may sound as if they are rapping, rhyming, or reciting a list of words rather than typical speech patterns. Some examples of clanging include: repeating rhyming words. repeating puns or overusing puns.
Flat affect is a hallmark symptom of schizophrenia, although it may also affect those with other conditions. It is a lack of showing emotion characterized by an apathetic and unchanging facial expression and little or no change in the strength, tone, or pitch of the voice.
Tangential speech or tangentiality is a communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning to the initial topic of the conversation.
Word salad is a type of dysfunctional language, sometimes seen in those with schizophrenia, consisting of an odd mix of seemingly random words and phrases. Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder that affects how a person interprets reality.
For example, people may not dress according to the weather, (i.e., they may wear a heavy coat in the middle of summer), they may wear odd or inappropriate makeup, they may shout at people for no apparent reason, or they may mutter to themselves continuously, etc.
Disorganized behavior can manifest in a variety of ways. It can include odd, bizarre behavior such as smiling, laughing, or talking to oneself or being preoccupied/responding to internal stimuli. It can include purposeless, ambivalent behavior or movements.