Friday 11 July 2008

Speaking in Tongues, Mumbling Out Loud, and Incoherent Speech (Part III)


As a psychiatric-diagnosed person, I realise that all kinds of different people, have all kinds of different responses towards myself and other diagnosed people. There are also some common trends and behaviours amongst non psychiatric-diagnosed people though, especially where mentalism is concerned.

There are some people in society, who will try to provoke mad, irrational, and disruptive responses in psychiatric diagnosed people, by acting provocative and crazy, and because they have issues with their own mental health problems, and which remain unexplored and unresolved. I also find that many people in authority, have communication problems and personality disorders, in that they can't enter into any kind of mutual discussion and debate, are very easily irritated, and lose their concentration very quickly.

Some people will also project their communication problems, onto psychiatric diagnosed people, to say we have a communication problem,and that we can't conform to normal, mutual, or structured conversation, when the communication problems are theirs and not ours. These people usually have problems with their own identity, and with integrating into society in some way.


In my previous two articles on incoherent speech, I looked at the nature of such speech and language in context to the social and interpersonal causes or influences. I feel it's important here, to again mention that incoherent speech is not a disruptive thing, which is trying to fragment, destroy, or divide mutual conversation, although it is usually a response to some conflict and fragmentation by others, in that it seeks a wider or a mutual consensus.


When psychiatric-diagnosed people, make what seem like strange statements, this is to a great extent, because they are imagining a statement, that would be referred back to their thoughts or commentsabout something. They are also imagining a statement, of something referred back to them in agreement or recognition, and which again, is part of a common consensus. The consensus in society, of ordinary everyday speech, then becomes internalised within the person, who then releases this, in order to experience and externalise it.


I was also saying, in my first article on incoherent speech, that psychiatric-diagnosed people often talk seemingly incoherently, as a way of avoiding the rational thought-control of the voices or of other people, because if the psychiatric-diagnosed person speaks in meaningless statements, this can disrupt the voices rational dominance and control, and fragment or distract the voices from the conscious mind.


I realise that for some people reading this, they may think that therefore psychiatric-diagnosed people, are opposed to all rational thought-control, as in the context of normal relating, or transactions, and everyday conversation and speech. This was not what I was saying, because I was referring specifically to hearing negative and/or intrusive voices, and talking about very negative and critical one-sided inquisition.

There may be some psychiatric-diagnosed people, who are indeed opposed to all rational thought-control by other people socially, and that has to be taken into consideration, and realised that there are all kinds of reasons why they are like that, but that in many ways, it is a reasonable stance to take. On the other hand, most diagnosed-people, are not opposed to actual rational free-thinking and communication,and very much value the importance of rational thinking and logic, in context to sound thought and communication, and in context to safe and sound mental health.

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