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- A symptom of mania that involves a rapid shift in conversation from one
subject to another with only superficial associative connections.
- A nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from one
topic to another, usually based on understandable associations, distracting
stimuli, or playing on words. When severe, however, this may lead to
disorganized and incoherent speech. Flight of ideas is characteristic of
manic episodes, but it may occur also in organic mental disorders,
schizophrenia, other psychoses, and, rarely, acute reactions to stress.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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