Sadhguru

Sometimes they're successful for whatever reasons.

But suppose you start talking and you can't stop.

If somebody comes to you as a patient,

I hate that word client, so I'm shifting to a natural terminology.

If a patient comes to you and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, they're talking and they can't stop.

you will probably sedate them and make them sleep so that at least then they will shut up.

But there are people who talk in their sleep also.

I'm sure you've seen those people.

Absolutely.

They're talking in their sleep also.

So if speech becomes compulsive, it's very obvious what should be a conscious process of action has become compulsive.

Speech is a consequence of thought, isn't it?

Something in your mind is trying to find expression.

So I think a lot of time... No, I said thought process.

There is some thought process, diarrhea going on in the mind, and mouth is also blabbering that.

No, no, that won't help.

Tell me somebody is compulsively talking.

Why are they talking?

Because their thoughts are going so rapidly, they don't know what to do and it's just finding expression like this compulsively.

Compulsive expression is called compulsive talking.