Tuesday, April 21, 2009

What does hypergraphia look like?


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Why: A girl in tonight's episode of "SVU" had hypergraphia brought on by Pemoline. Hypergraphia is the overwhelming, compulsive, or obsessive urge to write. It is not itself a disorder, but can be associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy and main in the context of bipolar disorder.

Answer: A few examples by Lewis Carrol:

Charles Crumb:



and a guy named Matsumoto:



Source: WorldWithWords

The More You Know: In boring classes, I write my name a few hundred times on a sheet of paper. It passes the time.