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Apr 26, 2017, 03:14 PM
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Does anyone notice their handwriting changing as they cycle? Generally my handwriting is chicken scratch anyway, but it will vary from completely unreadable to very neat. I'm watching what appears to be a daily change dependent on my mood and what is stressing me out. This 30-day taper of prednisone has me amped up, too.
Right now I would classify my handwriting as "neat". But yesterday and the day before that when I was a little stressed it could have been nicer. I can go through my handwritten notes over the last year (I keep everything for work) and see my mood shifting. It's interesting to see how the pattern is very wave like. |
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Apr 26, 2017, 03:19 PM
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When I'm manic my handwriting goes to hell. I can look back at journals and see those times. I normally print everything in capital letters, very neatly. When I'm manic, the letters get large and oftentimes the content makes no sense.
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Apr 26, 2017, 03:36 PM
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Apr 26, 2017, 04:47 PM
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Yep. In eighth grade, I won the handwriting award. I still have very neat penmanship. It is something people often remark on. When manic it is messier. Sometimes I don't even bother to stay on the lines. I write page after page after page in my journal. My longest entry in my last mania was 17 pages in a single sitting. Both sides.
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Apr 26, 2017, 05:10 PM
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17 pages that's impressive!!!!!!!!!
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Apr 26, 2017, 08:59 PM
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I have hand tremors so my handwriting has gone to hell in a bushel basket. But I have noticed that it's messier and bolder when I'm manic, and much more subdued in depression. Interesting observation, neodk.
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Apr 26, 2017, 09:39 PM
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my turns into sprawling scribbles of insight in my journal. I think they. are so well written and profound at the time but when I look back I'm like.....
  
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I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning, I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes Listen as the crowd would sing Now the old king is dead! Long live the king! One minute I held the key Next the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand |
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Apr 26, 2017, 10:37 PM
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When I was on Lamictal I had TD so bad that my hands shook so badly that I could barely write. It was kind of embarrassing
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Apr 26, 2017, 11:01 PM
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It gets very loopy and seems to flow a lot easier the more I swing into hypo/mania
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Apr 27, 2017, 02:14 AM
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The only thing I've noticed is that over the years my signature has morphed into something looking like a doctor's scrawl. My writing stays the same no matter what mood I'm in but some where along the way my signature became too much trouble (probably from picking up and signing for all that medication) that I just scribble something down. Never the same twice.
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Apr 27, 2017, 06:57 AM
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Yes! I usually have relatively neat all caps printing, but when I am manic it turns into serial killer cursive because I can write faster.
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Apr 28, 2017, 10:09 AM
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My CPN use to like reading my journal for him as he would be able to tell what kind of mood I was in at that moment in time when writing in the journal. My handwriting goes from neat to BIG and SLOPPY and is a nightmare to re-read after I have came out of the manic phase. My signature is like a Doctor's signature unreadable.
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Apr 28, 2017, 11:31 AM
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I took a skills assessment test at work the other day and my handwriting was absolutely awful. Every question was short essay and required at least three to four handwritten sentences. I was in hell because of my mania. I'm on a roller coaster right now so I've been varying between "neat" to illegible. I also notice that when I'm manic I right from the bottom of the page up. And when I'm stable I write normally going down. If I start to get manic while I'm writing I skip 3-4 lines at a time.
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Apr 28, 2017, 12:08 PM
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Apr 28, 2017, 04:46 PM
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I write a lot smaller when I'm depressed. It doesn't look that much different between stable and manic. I do notice it's harder to write now, but that's more because of age than of mood.
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