Pressure of speech

Pressure of speech
SpecialtyPsychiatry, clinical psychology

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.

  1. ^ Videbeck, Sheila (2010). Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (5th ed.). Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. pp. 186, 303, 305. ISBN 978-1605478616.
  2. ^ World Health Organization (2023). "MB23 Pressured speech". International Classification of Diseases, eleventh revision – ICD-11. Genova – icd.who.int.