‘Schizophrenia’, the brain disease, in Greek means a ‘split mind’. This explains how the schizophrenia patients tend to suffer form hallucinations and delusions in varying forms, like hearing voices that do not exist, or see such things or perceive such situations that are actually not present anywhere around them. For a number of years, scientists considered the problem of multiple personality disorder a form of schizophrenia, and in fact people still tend to get confused between the two during diagnosis. One of the most vital causes for this confusion is the similarity in handwriting among patients suffering from these diseases.

Lots of work has been done in order to establish what the characteristics present in a schizophrenic handwriting are.               

A schizophrenia patient’s handwriting is often quite distinguished. Those who trust graphology and its science can even tell the typical traits of schizophrenia handwriting. For instance, their handwriting is usually quite illegible as well as chaotic by nature. Many a tines the words or the letters could be missing too. In many cases, they have been seen to write in multiple languages, all in one sentence, and such a jumble that they only would be able to completely understand it properly. Sometimes, they cab write perfectly normal too, before getting back to their confused writing pattern once again after a while.

Some of the most prominent attributes to their handwriting are:

Use of capital letters: the capital letters and pen strokes may get reversed and disconnected. They even show a tendency like many internet using teenagers (these teenagers cannot be called schizophrenic though), who suddenly start writing capital letters in the middle of their words.

Multiple writing style: often schizophrenia handwriting shows multiple handwriting styles in the very same page. They write in varying styles, in just one go of writing. However, since multiple personality disorder patients do this too, there is often confusion in regards to which disease the person is actually suffering form.

Strength and handwriting pressure: schizophrenic handwriting of schizophrenia patients often shows great variations in writing pressure for instance while sometimes they may write with very heavy pressure, suddenly they just might begin to write with very light pressure. This happens while they are writing at one go, and not even on different writing occasions, suggesting violent fluctuations in writing feel, in a very short span of time.

However, owing to the excessive variations in symptoms, Schizophrenia often gets tough to diagnose. Sadly there is no fool proof test like blood test, that can be trusted to confirm if the disease. Needless to say, diagnosis depends on careful observation of the patient and of course the patient’s own account of experiences, symptoms and psychotic episodes, this must be done by an expert, who preferably also understands handwriting analysis, so that studying their handwriting can also serve as a profitable tool. Since strangely irregular handwriting is definitely a characteristic feature, it can help predicting if the disease is present, and if professional help might be sought. Though of course, graphology may not always make perfectly accurate prediction, it definitely can be counted on for suggestions.