Abnormal prosody Pressured speech 2023-07-28T13:55:40Z Speech pattern that is excessive and intense that often imparts a sense of urgency, the individual appears to be driven to communicate with many words that are spoken very quickly and may run into each other. The person is frequently difficult to interrupt and appears to not respond to social cues for the conversational partner(s) to take their turn in speaking. Pressured speech manifests as an increase in the amount of spontaneous speech, which is generally continuous, rapid, loud, and difficult to interrupt. Pressured speech may sometimes be incoherent and continue even when no one is listening. Excessive speech output