Communicating issue?

Does anyone have an issue with communicating sometimes?
Everyone around me always gives me odd looks because I tend to randomly scramble my words. Hard to explain.. I get nervous with expressing myself but its not that I just end up getting jumbled when I talk, usually don’t even notice.

I used to have people tell me from time to time that "your not making any sense."
It was always a bit frustrating because to me I was making perfect sense. Maybe it was because I was coming from a perspective than was outside of the realm of most people's perspectives. I would also tend to jump from topic to topic or what some people would call ramble. I was a ramblin man ;-) ~ Shoe

I know what you mean, I found in my case it was largely down to nerves. I found that getting a part time job helped me in that I slowly got used to interacting with the same people every day and gradually found myself able to communicate better. At first though I had to really think about what I was going to say before I said it. Nightmare! Reckon a lot for me was lack of confidence and also post traumatic stress suffered, I believe from a recent relapse. (Long story - wont bore you with all the details)

I sometimes have communication problems but not other times. It depends on the situation. There can be long periods of times where I sound perfectly coherent, making logical sense,and connected ideas. But if I am under pressure or am manic, I have pressured speech, flight of ideas, and sometimes loosening of associations. At the time I am doing it, I don't realize it my psychologist tells me I am "jumping around" and "not thinking clearly." Sometimes in the past it got so severe that it became "word salad." I bet some of you have seen some of those posts many months ago. Right now I am making sense but my verbal speech (out loud) is slurred due to a side effect of one of my new meds after leaving the mental hospital for a week. Yay for side effects!! I always get them. Also the dizziness and fainting. I am taking Trileptal (have been only on it for a week) for a mood stabilizer even though its meant for seizures.

I to take Trileptal, a very good drug w/ not one side effect for me in 7 yrs. I hope you have good luck as I may be crazy it really has changed my life although not seeing the differance for over a year, based on my "pre trileptal past" to the past after Trileptal.

I agree w/ all of you and have the same common problem. Very common w/ people in our catagory. It only gets very hard to deal w/ when people agree w/ me on something but I can tell they don't understand what I'm trying to get across. Then my speech becomes worse as I try to explain it to them as they write it off as "he's just nuts." I know you guys have been there I'm sure. It's very frusterating & depressing & then that only makes it even worse. Along w/ manic, trying to talk when I am is almost not possible. I have a son who is my spliting image & has the same speech problems I did at his age, adding to the consant fear of what he will have to deal w/ in life.

I have a tendency to talk too fast. When I try to slow down to others speed, they get lost,or just think I'm stoned. Communication is very difficult for me. The things I talk about scare people away. I wish they would just go away. Then I would not have to explain so much about what I'm thinking.