Things You'll Need:
- A curiosity about handwriting and unconventional means of diagnosis.
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Step 1
Look to see if a tremor has developed. That’s evident when the handwriting is shaky. Older people often have wobbly handwriting because they’re dealing with a myriad of physical problems that afflict the aged. The tremor doesn’t necessarily reveal what’s wrong with the person only that there is something wrong. It appears that the body often knows it’s sick before a person is aware of it. The illness will show up in the person’s handwriting long before a diagnosis is made.
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Step 2
If a physician thinks his patient might be a drug addict, looking at the patient’s handwriting can give him some clues. Addicts tend to write in weird configurations, have blackened areas inside the A’s and their writing is splotchy.
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Step 3
Is your patient a hypochondriac? Someone who tends to exaggerate will use a lot of underlining and exclamation points in his writing. There will be uneven pressure: some of the writing will be dark and intense, others words will be written lightly. Graphologists maintain, based on empirical evidence, that hypochondriacs, who are preoccupied with the physical, will exhibit a dominating lower zone in their writing. The lower zone includes the letters that sweep beneath the line on standard writing paper (lower case g’s, y’s, p’s, f’s).
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Step 4
According to graphology experts, the lower zone in handwriting represents the id, which houses the libido. The id also represents the past as well as instinct, urges, desires, longing and an obsession with the body. Body builders tend to have dominating lower zone writing styles.
