Poverty of speech The phenomenon of schizophrenic speech experienced by Mary in

76 Similar to the example in the datum no. 01SCBS5, the second example also shows the phenomenon of meaningless hand motion. It is proven in the following datum. Mary : “LiarsYou’re all liars by pointing to the wall John : “MaryMaryStop this.......Mary Stop itStop it” Datum no. 14LVS11 The dialogue takes place when Mary has a conversation with John. She cannot control herself since she gets hallucination. John, her husband persuades her to calm down but in fact, she still rampages through her house. Hence, she throws everything and even, she acts violently. In this scene, she does meaningless hand motion when she points her fingers to the wall. This pointing seems meaningless since there is no clear purpose why Mary does it. Therefore, the gesture shows the diminished mind-body connection which is experienced by Mary. The last example of meaningless hand motion can be seen in the datum below. John : Another hour? Tell me though, wait, wait, excuse me, Im sorry, an hour were waiting. Its Thanksgiving. I made the reservation a week ago. No, no, Ill tell you what... Seller : Im sorry. Everyone has a reservation here. Mary : I’m starving she clenches her fist Datum no. 23CSS24 In this scene, Mary wants to celebrate the Thanksgiving Day. Finally, Mary, John, and Chris decide to go to the cake shop, in order to buy some pumpkin pies. In fact, in the cake shop, there are many people who are queuing 77 for ordering some cakes or pumpkin pies. When John asks to the seller whether there is pumpkin pie or not, Mary and Chris still wait for him by sitting in the chairs. However, she is angry since she cannot get the pumpkin pie. She feels bored when John forces the seller to give pumpkin pie. Then, she clenches her fist as if she feels impatient. The gesture does not accomplish anything but it is only reflected from her emotion.

b. Excessive Crying

After meaningless hand motion, the accompanying behaviour which is experienced by Mary is excessive crying. This phenomenon happens when a schizophrenic feels unhappy, depressed, and confused since he or she has a false belief and hallucination about something. In this case, Mary as a schizophrenic character does crying excessively in showing her emotion. She cries continuously but there is no reason why she does that. In her thought, she only wants to do that which is influenced by her delusional belief. Thus, the other people do not know exactly why she has to cry. Actually, crying is a normal way to express people’s emotion, so this behaviour can occur in normal people. They express their sad and pain by crying since they consider that crying can solve their problem and even make them feel comfortable. However, crying can be deviant when this behaviour happens excessively without having any reason. This condition often appears in a person with mental illness.