thought blocking

Sometimes they experience "thought blocking," a feeling that thoughts are removed from their head.

When looking for schizophrenia they may look for thought blocking.

People with schizophrenia commonly experience thought blocking and may comprehend the experience in peculiar ways.

It often accompanies thought blocking.

Specific thought disorders include derailment, poverty of speech, tangentiality, illogicality, perseveration, neologism, and thought blocking.

Thought blocking refers to an abrupt stop in the middle of a train of thought; the individual may or may not be unable to continue the idea.

Thought blocking, a phenomenon that occurs in people with psychiatric illnesses (usually schizophrenia), occurs when a person's speech is suddenly interrupted by silences that may last a few seconds to a minute or longer.

When doctors diagnose thought blocking, it is important that they consider other causes of pauses in speech and expression, such as petit mal seizures, aphasia, hesitation brought on by anxiety, or slow thought processes.

A pattern of interruption or disorganization of thought processes is broadly referred to as formal thought disorder, and might be described more specifically as thought blocking, fusion, loosening of associations, tangential thinking, derailment of thought, or knight's move thinking.