What is this condition clinically referred to as? (anxiety, husband, borderline)
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This acquaintance TALKS TOO MUCH! She literally has “diarrhea of the mouth”, will not let anyone else talk at all and completely dominates ANY AND ALL conversations. It has even led to divorce from her husband of over 25 years and estrangement from her kids and kin. All others don’t want to be around her because she will not let them speak and rambles on with her hysterics. In fact, she refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem.
This acquaintance TALKS TOO MUCH! She literally has “diarrhea of the mouth”, will not let anyone else talk at all and completely dominates ANY AND ALL conversations. It has even led to divorce from her husband of over 25 years and estrangement from her kids and kin. All others don’t want to be around her because she will not let them speak and rambles on with her hysterics. In fact, she refuses to acknowledge that she has a problem.
Why do you think it is a "clinical" condition? You should realize lots of people just like to hear themselves talk . You cannot tell a story around my mother without her cutting you off to tell one more "dramatic" about her. She must dominate every conversation. She has gotten so bad in her old age that I literally cannot stand to be around her for longer than an hour now. But if you say anything to her, then she pretends her feelings have been hurt and start crying.
Drives me freaking insane. But it isn't clinical. It's just her personality.
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OP - I agree with you, I've seen this behavior as a disorder a very few times.
There are people who are just jerks and don't care that they are dominating the conversation, and don't take social cues and people just resort to starting their own side conversations with each other while that person is still droning on and on and on. That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about people who have to be vocalizing or their brains shut down. These people are also talking and singing and humming even when there's no perceived audience. They are never ever silent. Even if someone else is speaking, they're making quiet vocalizations the whole time.
I had a preschooler who did that, and I asked him why he couldn't stop making noise and he said "when I stop talking, my brain goes to sleep". That was so illuminating for me. Thank God he grew out of it! Fairly recently I was in the grocery store for a long shopping trip, and happened to be shopping on the same aisles as this other family for about 45 minutes. They had a child who couldn't stop talking. She was saying nonsense things, like peaches peaches I like peaches about 100 times (Literally) and then something else totally nonsense, she wasn't quiet for a 2 second span the whole 45 minutes. She wasn't shouting it, or demanding attention, she was just quietly vocalizing the whole entire time.
Is that what you're talking about?
(But I gotta add. Your acquaintance doesn't literally have diarrhea of the mouth. She figuratively has diarrhea of the mouth. Sorry, pet peeve.)
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