Pressured speech is commonly seen as a symptom of bipolar disorder. When you have pressured speech, you have an extreme need to share your thoughts, ideas, or comments. It’s often a part of experiencing a manic episode. The speech will come out rapidly, and it doesn’t stop at appropriate intervals.

During a manic episode of bipolar disorder, the following moods and behaviors can occur: Being irritable, angry, or restless. Talking fast and having racing thoughts that you can’t control. Being easily distracted and unable to focus on one activity.

People interpret fast talking as a sign of nervousness and a lack of self-confidence. Your fast talking can make it appear that you don’t think people want to listen to you, or that what you have to say is not important.

Liars are sometimes called “fast talkers,” but the speed of their speech varies as much as an honest person’s within a conversation. Yet liars will alter their speech rates within a single sentence.

Fast Speakers Are More Credible In the late 1970’s a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggested that if people talked at a somewhat fast rate (195 words per minute), they were perceived as more credible, intelligent, socially attractive, and persuasive.

Slower, methodical speaking can also be attractive. If one can talk slowly and methodically (not too slowly) with good body language and a firm voice people will also find that attractive due to the confidence portrayed by the speaker.

As such, speaking too fast is a common problem in communication. But speaking too fast can work against you, whether it’s in presentations, telephone calls, meetings or one-on-one conversations. If you’re explaining something to a client or trying to influence an audience, speaking too fast can cause confusion.

Most people speak at an average speed of four to five syllables per second. Most words are two to three syllables long, giving you the answer that the average person speaks approximately 100 – 130 words per minute. A professional voice over artist usually uses 150 to 160 words per minute.

In this article, I will share with you 7 powerful techniques you can use to articulate your thoughts into words clearly and compellingly.

1. Expand Your Vocabulary.
2. Practice Improvising.
3. Lay It Down in Writing First.
4. Pay Attention to Tone and Accentuation.
5. Listen to Yourself.
6. Put A Framework Around It.
7. Understand Yourself.

When you forget a word, it has not disappeared from memory; it is still there, but in the moment of speaking something is preventing it from being fully retrieved. The inability to find words can indicate brain injury or infection, strokes, and degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Difficulty following storylines may occur due to early dementia. This is a classic early symptom. Just as finding and using the right words becomes difficult, people with dementia sometimes forget the meanings of words they hear or struggle to follow along with conversations or TV programs.

The differential diagnosis of word-finding difficulty therefore encompasses a wide spectrum of acute and chronic disorders as diverse as delirium (Geschwind, 1964), aphasic stroke (Kertesz and McCabe, 1977), encephalitis (Okuda et al., 2001), major depression (Georgieff et al., 1998) and psychosis (Critchley, 1964).

Dysarthria often causes slurred or slow speech that can be difficult to understand. Common causes of dysarthria include nervous system disorders and conditions that cause facial paralysis or tongue or throat muscle weakness. Certain medications also can cause dysarthria.