Hypergraphia: OCD

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Some blog writers: compulsory writing syndrome was triggered to some students, when asked to Write an essay summarising and evaluating the key points from both texts and classroom. 

To write a book that's intelligent, articulate, sensitive and funny, triggers writer's block - cramp, procrastination  ...   Many authors fear writer's block. But its opposite -- hypergraphia, the driving compulsion to write -- can be equally debilitating.


Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) ...

Hypergraphia - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraphia
Hypergraphia is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy, which is the cause of the Geschwind syndrome, a mental disorder.

- In the 1970s, neurologists discovered that hypergraphia was often triggered by temporal lobe epilepsy. Scientists later linked it with bipolar disorder. ... Activity in the temporal lobe is reduced, spurring activity in the frontal, the area that potentiates complex behavior like speech.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, ... What matters is the feeling — the fear, the loss, the disorderliness, feels very ...



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