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Susannah Mary Leopold's avatar

I'd never heard of the term hypergraphia - this was so interesting. And The Midnight Disease sounds like a fascinating read too.

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Kathryn Vercillo's avatar

I hadn’t heard the term at the time but years ago someone I know with bipolar mania wrote song lyrics all over the walls of a house. Like within a few days the walls were covered. It was this ambitious five album plan he created in his mania. So I had a sense of this condition before I knew its name.

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Susannah Mary Leopold's avatar

Wow, that sounds pretty extreme.... Did he experience it as something positive, creatively - or more as a compulsion he couldn't control?

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Kathryn Vercillo's avatar

That's a great question and a complicated one. My understanding, although I don't know for sure, is that while he was in the midst of it, at least at first, it felt good to him. It did feel compulsive and out of control but he loved the energy and didn't know something was wrong. But eventually it became too much.

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