Flight of ideas A continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic that are usually based on understandable associations distracting stimuli or play on words. When severe speech may be disorganized and incoherent. Copyright Notice Adapted from Wikipedia. Text is available under the  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 ; additional terms may apply.

Flight of ideas Flight of ideas describes excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves a causal association between ideas. Links between ideas may involve the usage of puns or rhymes. It is typical of mania , classically seen in bipolar disorder . Compare Derailment . Copyright Notice Adapted from Wikipedia. Text is available under the  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 ; additional terms may apply.