Does your hand writing change depending what your mental state is?

I was going through my journal and I noticed a very distinct pattern with my printing. When I was depressed it was smaller and super, super neat. I do naturally have neat printing, but this was out of control and was very uniform like a computer font. I just found that interesting and was wondering if anyone else noticed that with their hand writing or something else?

I know if I'm hypomanic I become a VERY impatient driver and the F bomb becomes my new verb, adjective and noun!

I have the same problem. Inconsistent handwriting is my specialty.

Here's the post where I brought up the same question not too far back... http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=142305

My handwriting is atrocious, I always start trying to write neat in my journal, if I'm hypo then it gets pretty wild, the size, shape, embellishments take on a meaning of their own! It's a work of art (not!) If I'm depressed it gets smaller, but not so crazy.
When I take notes or write comments on papers it is a scrawl, but every one at work has crappy writing so they can read it!

Thanks for the link to the thread Queen! BlackPup, interesting that both of our writing styles get small when depressed. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, mine does change too. I noticed that in journaling, I'd write so much and that's good, *but* I couldn't read it at all later! So realizing my cursive writing was so useless, I decided to block print. Now I can actually read it later(!) It changes in legibility according to mind state, but still generally readable. I can write cursive neatly enough when it's something deliberate, but not at all so when it's more stream-of-consciousness writing. Yes, also with the smaller when depressed. And when I'm really irritated, agitated or just plain PO'd? Holy cow does it ever show in the writing. Not just the words (obviously!), but the script gets big and jaggedy, pressed down hard and all over the place, even tearing through the paper as the words just aren't enough.

Hehe, super super neat's never a problem for me, blueoctober! But I love your F bomb as "verb, adjective and noun", lol, SO true! Pretty sure I could find it used in all three ways in my journals as well as in driving...

Yep. How interesting. I never noticed this before. But my handwriting cycles as rapidly as I do--even just within a page or a paragraph it will be completely different, ranging from elegant script to frenetic and messy and everything in between. It always looks like my handwriting, but it just seems my handwriting is amazingly inconsistent. All the time.

[Innerzone;But I love your F bomb as "verb, adjective and noun", lol, SO true! Pretty sure I could find it used in all three ways in my journals as well as in driving... ]

Yes definitely I notice many swears being used in my journal when I'm hypomanic!

Shakti, It is interesting that many of us have noticed the same thing!

Oh my gosh...bwahaha...the F-Bomb is pretty much my verb, adjective, and noun a lot of the time. Definitely when driving! But I digress...this is about handwriting.

I've noticed the same thing...
When I'm depressed, my handwriting is small, neat print. When I'm angry, huge angry print, and when I'm hypomanic (Mine's happy), it's like a mixture of cursive and print, and looks really romantic. When the hypomania's wearing thin,and I'm agitated and irritable, it's terrible, scribbles and what not. Which leaves me to re-write, because I hate making spelling and grammatical errors as well as writing illegibly...

Strange that we all have handwriting cycles

It's interesting that when we are depressed we have all noted that our handwriting/printing has become small. I know when I'm depressed I feel small and insignificant, so I wonder if my writing is an expression of that? Just a thought.

When I am depressed I often feel a deep anger component and my handwriting reflects that: small, but jagged and fierce. When I am depressed and full of pity, it is smallish, but sags a bit, like it's heavy.

I have never really noticed this before, but I've been comparing mood charts with dated to-do lists and journal entries and it matches perfectly every single time. Even when it changes within the day, I can see the change.

This is actually pretty cool. For what it is anyway.

My wrting does change within different moods. so does my personality. I used to think that I might have DID but I am concious during each mood. I'ts really wierd lol. When I am manic, my writing in fast looking and slanted. And when Im depressed my writing is curvy and looks like I was sleepi9ng while writing. Thanks for posting.

T just brought up my handwriting a couple of weeks ago. She said, do you always write so nicely? I said, No..... lol
I looked back and I do write pretty nicely in my journal. My writing gets smaller when I feel...smaller or worse.
Yes, I drop the F bomb a lot too when I am mad and my writing gets messy and illegible.

I do the same thing. When I'm depressed, I write small and neat. If I'm manic, I write really big and you can't read it! Lol! It takes me forever to figure out what I was supposed to be writing. I never really thought about it until I read this post and went and looked at my journal. This is an odd thing that happens.