"Intermittent hypergraphia", to quote my file.

Proof still unavailable, but I have come to trust the memory that I quite literally was able to write long before I was able to speak. No "Intermittent" in my file. My shrinks felt safer taking my pills than taking whatever I was scribbling with at the time. One of them compared me to Sade Marquis.

Take my pen and paper, and I lose sanity fast. Or my keyboard, in this modern age. Where the line between "intermittent" and "regular" hypergraphia is, I dunno. I suspect I cross it, but since it's not harming me, the shrinks and such don't want to make any fuss (?). I dunno. My new motto. Damifino.

I like crossing elephants and rhinocerosi. Eleph*i*no. . .

I, too, leave defining those distinctions to the trained and licensed experts. I just a patient. . .

Still. . . I keep feeling a need to discuss it with people who have dealt with it up close and strictly personal. The inside scoop? Proof that I am not alone with this?

Nobody seems alarmed by it. I occasionally dislike the sense of pending abyssal badness if I can't write. It's a great anxiety when I can't. Since I was a kid, words helped me put *me* somewhere safe. My me-ness was safe in the words in the notebooks in the corner hidden under the stuff. ... Very little made me feel safe, and I guess if hypergraphia helps me stay functional in other areas, they won't worry, whoever "they" are.

Not alone, Arfie. My hypergraphia is my voice, my psych doc says my painting/doodling is part of it.

The same shrink who compared me to Marquis de Sade believed my hypergraphia didn't need to be cured. With him, I worked on training it. He is the shrink who introduced me to therapy journaling. I still don't trust the accuracy of the alphabet soup my memory has made of my pro parade, but I believe he said, "Graphia is a good thing. The hyper is the part causing the problem."

He especially loved my calligraphy. "THAT is graphia worthy of a frame!"

Yep me. Psychosis anyone?

I will send you a separate explanation tomorrow mate. Too b!ocked right now. I'm not known as the letter writer for nothing. My best to you Arfie good buddy. Love you xx

Gee, I had to look up what that was, so nope I have not been dx'd with it. I do like to doodle on paper when I am around others, I draw, shapes, lines, circles, all interconnected, thick and thin lines. People are always amazed by it, I am not sure why, there is no meaning it is just lines and shapes. Or I will doodle, buildings, old farms, barns, with fences, pastures, etc. I find it relaxes me when I am around people or in meetings. Oddly enough it helps me focus and concentrate as well.

I say if you like to write, go for it. Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah. Logotherapy, anyone?

http://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/logotherapy