Essays, research, and lived insight into language, cognition, and psychosis.
This work moves between lived experience, linguistic research, and public-facing discussion. Readers may enter at any point.
Authored by Dr Oli Delgaram-Nejad.
Developed from Fought Disorder and subsequent work on language breakdown, meaning-making, and psychosis.
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Background
The work presented here is grounded in research in psycholinguistics and clinical linguistics, examining the relationship between language, cognition, and mental health. A central focus is how language reflects and constrains thought in serious mental illness, particularly schizophrenia.
This includes the development of the DAIS-C corpus, an open-access dataset of naturalistic speech from clinical and non-clinical populations, and the 4TD Framework, a linguistically informed model for analysing Formal Thought Disorder.
Lived position
Alongside academic research, this work is informed by lived experience of paranoid schizophrenia, documented in first-person accounts published in Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Fought Disorder extends this work through high-fidelity experiential description, bridging personal insight and linguistic analysis. Across forms, the aim is not explanation or instruction, but careful description of how language, thought, and meaning come under pressure.