Pressured Speech

Does anyone else get extremely annoyed when people cannot understand them or follow along. Sometimes I talk so fast that my words blend together and come out in one huge mumble. It gets frustrating that I can't speak as fast as my brain works. I feel like manic or not, I always have this problem.

I go at it like a machine gun. I'm pretty loud, insensitive and I talk over everybody. I go off on huge tangents in a conversation and end up forgetting what I was talking about. I think a lot of people find it pretty rude. I'm only really like this When I'm up, when I'm depressed, I communicate with people as little as is necessary.

When I'm up I talk very loudly and like toodles said, talk over people and interrupt people a lot. I'm even aware that I'm interrupting at the time but it's like I can't stop. My speech becomes pressured in that I get louder and louder and my language gets more colorful. I get so irritated because I feel like people are simply not understanding me. Like I'm on a level above them. So I use strange and unique vocabulary to try to get my point across because it seems SO important at the time. In reality I probably seem nutty.

Yep t had to ask me to repeat what I was saying a bit today. He thinks I'm starting to swing up I told him yes my mind is moving fast indeed

yes hate it.

and then if people don't get it i'm like.. well, forget it then. it's not really that important anyway

I have felt the same way as lunatic fringe about my own pressured speech when I've been manic. My language gets so fast and colorful and interrupty, and talk-overy, and I feel like I'm thinking on a higher level than everyone else and that I am speaking mostly in puns that no one understands and that I can see special connections and relationships and patterns with words that are profound in less than a split second and just spit them out without stumbling, but that even then my speech doesn't nearly match up with my brain speed which is thinking like 100 different ideas a second. I think I'm hilarious and brilliant but probably come off as sounding cracked out. My friends got worried that I had taken up meth when I had my first big manic episode. I must have sounded like a crazy tweaker.

Yep ! Pressured speech is a huge heads up for me. Last go around my husband had to put on headphones to try and tune me out LOL

My poor therapist has a hearing impairment and has to try to partially read my lips. I have no idea how he knows what I am saying when it gets bad.

Looking back I had this as a child. My family made fun of me all the time for it, as did friends in college and grad school. I learned to control it when I worked with hearing impaired people through most of my career. Some still had trouble but I did have the ability to consciously slow down if I worked at it.

pressured speech is sign number one of things to come,,, just tonight the wife said slow down...

Just today my T kept saying huh and what did you say??

Thankfully I don't get this as bad as some people do! I've seen it from the other side and can tell some thing is off, but for the average person they may just think your on drugs lol.

When it does happen to me, I become really sociable which is out of character for me. I find myself starting conversations even with total strangers and not knowing how to stop. I just seem to enjoy talking or hearing myself talk, not sure. But I wouldn't say I am as bad as some others.

My mom told me to tell my pdoc that I was talking over her too fast. He said 'don't worry about it. If you had pressured speech, I wouldn't be able to get in a word edge wise; you would be speaking in one giant, long. loud sentence. I would recognize it right away.' Soon after that I was extremely manic and my mom was pissed he didn't listen.

That sucks that he wouldn't listen to you. I hate pdocs right now. I think they're the worst. At least mine is.

I never knew the difference, mine really listened last time (we had a grad student in room), and it has made me feel so much better, just being heard,..... I wish pdoc's knew how important that is to us....

I've had the same experience with my pdoc when he has grad students in the room. Then he's actually reasonable and listens and doesn't demean me or assume I'm a liar and don't know what I'm talking about.