Flight of ideas

What is flight of ideas?

A sequence of loose associations or extreme tangentiality where the speaker goes quickly from one idea to another seemingly unrelated idea. To the listener, the ideas seem unrelated and do not seem to repeat. Often pressured speech is also present.

"I will update my symptoms report and see how my status has changed. It gives you a sense of how the disease is changing over time with many many symptoms."PatientsLikeMe member bkincaid

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