They may have a flight of ideas and feel creative.

This is in contrast with flight of ideas where connection is present between one topic and another.

He exhibited typical sound associations, and with every word of the operator broke into a flight of ideas.

He was demonstrating flight of ideas, pressured speech, lots of clever chess associations.

Flight of ideas - Excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves fragmented or unrelated ideas.

Flight of ideas is typical of mania.

Didn't he know that flight of ideas was one of the cardinal signs of schizophrenia?'

Typical flight of ideas!"

His service record indicates that Dux had been referred for psychiatric evaluation due to 'flights of ideas and exaggerations."

Bipolar mania often involves heightened energy, flight of ideas ("Her thoughts are racing, set on overdrive.")

Furthermore, Joseph Lange's description of Mozart's excited speech disturbance is more in keeping with flight of ideas.

Part B lists "inflated self-esteem, flight of ideas, distractibility, and decreased need for sleep" as symptoms of a Hypomanic Episode.

Then, his flight of ideas still continuing, he realized that in some ways, very curiously, he felt a new security and even satisfaction at the contemplation of a solitary life.

The complaint of "many ideas warring for his attention" is called "flight of ideas," known to be a sympton of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder, perhaps curable and most likely treatable.

One may also feel incredibly frustrated or be prone to fits of rage in this state, since one may feel like a failure and at the same time have a flight of ideas.

But not one of them, not even Fletcher Lynd Gull, had come to believe that the flight of ideas could possibly be as real as the flight of wind and feather.

The pace of the speech indicates an underlying thought disorder known as "flight of ideas" where the information going through the person's head is so fast that it is difficult to follow their train of thought.

Because of the integrative deficits (often causing what general psychiatrists call "loose associations," "blocking," "flight of ideas," "verbigeration," and "thought withdrawal"), the development of self and object representations is also impaired.

Individuals with Bipolar II Disorder experience milder periods of hypomania during which the flight of ideas, faster thought processes and ability to take in more information can be converted to art, poetry or design.

In many instances, creativity and psychopathology share some common traits, such as a tendency for "thinking outside the box," flights of ideas, speeding up of thoughts and heightened perception of visual, auditory and somatic stimuli.

It is perhaps a technical point whether we regard this work - with its fragmented associations and obscure, perverse and personalised allusions, as an example of schizophrenic language or, as Brain argues, evidence of manic flight of ideas.

Regarding the tempo of thought, some people may experience flight of ideas, when their thoughts are so rapid that their speech seems incoherent, although a careful observer can discern a chain of poetic associations in the patient's speech.

The notion of overinclusive thinking actually arose originally from studies of schizophrenia ; yet, as already mentioned, it is found as, if not more, commonly in people diagnosed as suffering from mania, helping to account for the wild 'flight of ideas' typically observed in that condition.

Many clinicians say the illness looks significantly different in children than in adults, but the question of how it differs, or what diagnostic terms like "grandiosity," "elevated mood" or "flight of ideas" (all potential symptoms of adult bipolar disorder) even mean when you're talking about kids, leaves room for interpretation.