Sentence examples for disordered thought from inspiring English sources

Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was psychotic; his paranoid delusions charged his disordered thought.

Contemporary scripted TV advertises the benefits of disordered thought, perception, and behavior, from the associative manias of the bipolar C.I.A. officer Carrie Mathison on "Homeland" to the precise memory of the phobic, obsessive-compulsive private detective on the eponymous "Monk".

This volume follows the trajectory of Bellow's writing from the "square and honest" semi-autobiography of Dangling Man, waiting to be drafted into the army in 1943, married and cheating on his young wife, to the primal layered complexity of Moses Herzog, the interiorised "near delirium and wide-ranging disordered thought" out of which he constructed his masterpiece, Herzog, in 1964.

As House points out, "if Congress was indeed acting schizophrenic, it would have flattened emotions; social withdrawal; and be prone to delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and occasional disordered thought".

Results for the prevalence of different types of disordered thought are presented in Table  3.

All the patients had experienced disturbed but non-psychotic thought, but only four (14.3%) with BPD and none with SC had experienced only this type of disordered thought during the previous two years.> -wrap-foot> SC = Schizophrenia; BPD = Borderline Personality Disorder.

Finally there were high correlations between scores on the STS-2 and the SCL-90-R assessment of general psychopathology, as well as the depression and anxiety subscales of the SCL90-R, consistent with the conception of the suicide trigger state as a syndrome of disordered thought and affect.

A psychosis can overwhelm and disable a person, or it can appear episodically, in the form of disordered thoughts that are themselves an attempt to ward off a collapse.