Logorrhea is a symptom of the pathology of speech, verbosity, acceleration of the rate of pronunciation of words. Pathology is quite common in psychiatric practice. Logorrhea is a pathology that occurs both as an independent ailment and as a symptom in personality disorders and other diseases.
Violation of speech development often occurs in children. However, this may not be related to the logorrhea.
The formation of speech is one of the main characteristics of the overall development of the child. After all, this is an important element of communication with the outside world, people, animals. It helps to assess the level of human development. Speech is closely related to the formation of intellectual abilities.
In case of violation, you must immediately consult a doctor. If pathology occurs in children, an early call to a specialist will help to avoid the development of psychological deviations.
In adults with speech impairment, other manifestations occur. They help to make a more accurate diagnosis, and the diagnostic measures taken will finally determine the cause of the logorrhea.
Causes
As an independent disease, logorrhea is rare, usually only in children. In adults, most often the disease manifests itself as a symptom with a more complex mental disorder.
Psychiatrists have come to the conclusion that logorrhea is a manifestation of such ailments as:
- affective insanity;
- bipolar affective disorder;
- schizophrenia;
- progressive type paralysis;
- sensory aphasia.
The causes of logorrhea are associated with organic or functional disorders affecting the speech center of the brain. Pathology usually manifests itself periodically. For example, during bipolar affective disorder, logorrhea occurs at certain stages of the development of the disease, namely in the phase of mania.
Manifestation of the disease
Logorrhea is one of the manifestations of cognitive dysfunction, leading not only to the problem of constructing sentences, but also to their formation. Also, speech impairment makes it difficult to obtain information in classrooms.
The main symptoms of the disease are swiftness in the process of expressing one’s own thoughts. Moreover, the speech in this case is so fast that it can cause leaps in mental activity. This manifestation is called "verbal okroshka." It can occur not only with logorrhea, but also in other conditions. For example, with schizophrenia, obsessive delusional states.
With logorie or high literature, speech is intense, often incoherent. In some cases, the logorrhea in a child and an adult is manifested by a slowdown in speech function, bradyphase. In this case, the patient becomes as if inhibited, loses orientation in space. But in 80% of cases of the disease, tachyphasia is observed in combination with jerky speech.
Treatment
Treatment of logorrhea gives positive effects in the pathogenetic direction of therapy. In other words, it is necessary to treat the mental disorder that led to the development of speech disorders. The cure can be complete if interruptions in the formation of speech occur temporarily. In this case, recovery occurs when contacting a therapist. If logorrhea is a symptom of any severe psychological disorder, then treatment involves taking medications.
Features
Logorrhea is common in children. They get rid of their literature, without affecting a large number of listeners. Some psychiatrists say that many critics, speakers pronounce what they did not say in childhood. For some, this type of speech is an opportunity to feel reality by being in an audience that is interested in the statements of patients.
Logorrhea is often found among those who sit on the Internet and write comments, communicate on forums. Usually such people don’t even notice what they are writing. Their thoughts work as fast as their fingers. Moreover, when typing, they do not think about what they write. However, such personalities have a unique flair that allows you to accurately identify some images from the total mass. By the way, according to statistics, people suffering from logorrhea are interesting to owners of blogs and various sites, as they are able to “get” visitors to leave comments under posts. Most people, after reading a comment created by a patient with logorrhea, start a discussion.