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PCIntern

(26,395 posts)
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 09:20 AM Tuesday

Pressure of speech:

Pressure of speech (or pressured speech) is a speech fast and frenetic (i.e. mainly without pauses), including some irregularities in loudness and rhythm or some degrees of circumstantiality; it is hard to interpret and expresses a (generally non-apparent) feeling/affect of emergency.[1][2] It is mainly a neuropsychological symptom of specific mental disorders, such as bipolar disorders, thought disorders, and stress-related disorders among others.-Wikipedia

I believe he has a form of this -it’s not the classic variety which I’ve witnessed a very few times and is overwhelming beyond belief, but a disjoint, demented variation which includes but is not limited to word salad/association where the decision tree for selecting the next clause is illogical.


Hey, but it’s Donald, right? He has the best words. He said so himself. Please allow me to entertain you for a moment as to how you’d react if the following occurred:

(A conversation between you and your dentist)

“Doc, I have this intermittent pain which can come on during the day, but gets really bad when I lay down at night. I can eat ok except for hot liquids, like coffee. It’s been going on for two weeks and is getting worse. What do you think it could be?”

“Well, the teeth, they’re teeth you know, and many many books, big books, have been written about them, that’s about the teeth. Now the teeth, they didn’t read these books, and so they do things, strange things, I wouldn’t say weird things, you know, they’re not weird and I’m not weird . But there has been cancer next to the teeth in the gums, and you know windmills are said by many people to cause this cancer, some say it’s sucking on a pipe stem or chewing tobacco but the best scientists I’ve known disagree. With that. One of these scientists, a very very famous scientist, came to me with tears in his eyes and said ‘Sir, can you please tell people about the windmills?’ I said I’d do what I could, you know. Now I know you didn’t get this from eating cats or dogs because you’re not from Haiti, right, because if you did and were, I’d send you right back to Venezuela. Now there’s a country, emptied its jails and asylums, not too good dentistry down there either.”

Can you imagine? You’d call the licensing board in your state and file a complaint. But this is the norm. For him. And that’s apparently ok with forty-some percent of the population. Scary AF.


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Pressure of speech: (Original Post) PCIntern Tuesday OP
Perfect re-creation of the gobbledegook... 3catwoman3 Tuesday #1
Call the licensing board? BlueSpot Tuesday #2
Senile dentists get reported quickly. PCIntern Tuesday #3

BlueSpot

(922 posts)
2. Call the licensing board?
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 09:11 PM
Tuesday

Wow, that is one calm reaction. I'd be ripping off that bib and getting the hell out of Dodge!

LOL, would I really stop to rip off the bib? One of those things you'll never know until it happens, I guess.

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