Speech sample | Thought disorder? Yes/No |
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1. Friends say I am less intimate, but whether I am or not isn’t my rhubarb | |
2. There’s been a residual reduction in intimacy | |
3. I’ve just been spending my time rinsing the Pringles | |
4. Non-lethargic. I don’t feel too lethargic. I don’t feel as if I’ll be reaching a state oflethargicness | |
5. I fell behind at work and was playing Heinz | |
6. The treatment—that’s radical | |
7. Since this started I’ve become an omni | |
8. I bumped my head, which left a coco [describing the result of a minor head injury] | |
9. I’ve been pixelated since starting the medication | |
10. I spend my time chronocolising |
*Only speech samples 2, 4, and 10 are rated as evidence of thought disorder on the thought and language index. All the other examples were appropriate use of slang words. The definitions from urbandictionary.com are: 1. rhubarb Def 3. n- a dispute or fight; 3. rinsing Def 6: v- to use/consume something a lot (Pringles is a brand of potato chips); 5. Heinz Def. 7: n- catch-up (from the rhyme with Heinz ketchup); 6. radical Def. 1: adj- impressive or good; 7. omni Def. 4: n- man of little or no skill; 8. coco Def. 1: n- a large lump; 9. pixelated Def 20: adj- incredibly tired.