|
Jun 23, 2010, 08:14 AM
|
|
|
|
Member Since: Aug 2008
Location: CT
Posts: 23
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by QueenAccountant
Is there a correlation between mental illness and handwriting?
Byz, pull some links out of your hat. 
I was just wondering, because I've been trying to journal everyday lately, and apparently I have like 10+ hand writing styles. 
For example, yesterday started out as print, to cursive, to print, to all caps, to big block letters that I colored in, back to print, then doctor scribble at the end that I can't quite make out. |
Interesting question. I have noticed in the past that I have different handwriting when I'm in different moods. Some of them are so different that it's hard to tell it's the same person, actually. My mom has expressed concern that she thinks I have multiple personalities,but she's not really one to talk. The woman smoked crack with me when I was 14, I even overdosed to which she responded with offering me even more... but- the handwriting thing, I think it links to mental "stuff" though I don't think that messy or neat is really the key. I think it is more like what I experience- different writing in different moods. It also depends on my general perspective at the time, like where I'm at in how I see life- I've gone through many different "phases" in life, and feel like I've been several different "people" though not necessarily multiple personalities. Everyone experiences different moods and perpectives, just like most people don't write in on uniform way throughout their wriitng. Journal writing especially because it should by nature be uncensored. We shouldn't have to worry how neat we are writing there, just about the fact that we get it down.
Kriya
|