A 52 year old woman speaks rapidly without any pause and ignores interruptions. She doesn’t even pause to take enough breaths. What term best describes this kind of speech?

The key is D. Pressure of speech. [Pressure of speech is a tendency to speak rapidly and frenziedly,

as if motivated by an urgency not apparent to the listener. The speech produced is difficult to interrupt.

Such speech may be too fast, erratic, irrelevant, or too tangential for the listener to understand.

Commonly seen in hypomania, mania, schizophrenia, extreme anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity

disorder].