Is this a real disorder?!
Question: Is there a disorder where a person can't stop writing or feels the need to write all the time? I think I saw something like that on dateline once, but can't remember.
The reason I ask is because my grandmother is out of control with sending letters and cards and writing notes to people. She writes notes for instructions on how to use or not use everything in her house. She used to send me these pages and pages of letters in college just telling me about what she ate that day, what she did, and saying the weirdest things. Most people think it's endearing that my grandmother sends me letters, but if you had to grow up with it, it's unnerving at points. She has actually done this since before my mother can remember.
About a year ago, I moved and NO ONE is allowed to give her my address. This is the most extreme of all the bizare things she does. She actually hit an all time record two days ago and sent my cousin 5 cards in the mail, all of them front and back hand written!
Answers: Is there a disorder where a person can't stop writing or feels the need to write all the time? I think I saw something like that on dateline once, but can't remember.
The reason I ask is because my grandmother is out of control with sending letters and cards and writing notes to people. She writes notes for instructions on how to use or not use everything in her house. She used to send me these pages and pages of letters in college just telling me about what she ate that day, what she did, and saying the weirdest things. Most people think it's endearing that my grandmother sends me letters, but if you had to grow up with it, it's unnerving at points. She has actually done this since before my mother can remember.
About a year ago, I moved and NO ONE is allowed to give her my address. This is the most extreme of all the bizare things she does. She actually hit an all time record two days ago and sent my cousin 5 cards in the mail, all of them front and back hand written!
Sounds like a form of OCD where she feels the need to do the same task over and over again. In your Grandmother's case it is writing notes and cards and lists.
Some people with OCD will check the locks in the house several times before they are convinced that it has been done or continually count things and perhaps alphabetize their canned goods.
I know it can be frustrating, but think of it from her side, she has a need to write and I am sure you knows it makes you all angry at times, but she really cannot help it.
Read the info on the site below and hopefully you will get a better understanding as to what this illness consists of.
http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/ocd_...
she has OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder.
Almost sounds like an offshoot of OCD, similar to Howard Hughes' focus on very specified instructions when he was in an episode.
Very fascinating predicament, unfortunate, but fascinating. I would love to hear what you discover.
I 've never heard of this....but it must be annoying for people around her....she is like never enough writing....
Compulsive disorder I would say.
she may just be ocd and feel the need to connect to her family...and she wants to make sure that things in her house are ran the way she wants, including the care given by
nurses