How do you deal with mental illness?
sethg: I know nothing about hypergraphia, but I question the assumption that your desire to write could be "channeled" into coding.  I don't think it's necessarily true that two superficially similar activities are really scratching the same psychological itch.When I had a blog, I'd inevitably find myself posting inappropriate personal confessions on it... hence the reason I do not have a blog. I've ruined relationships with brutally honest emails.This makes me suspect that your itch is not writing per se but self-revelation.  Have you tried taking up painting or sculpture or some other art form as a hobby, so that you can express your feelings in a way that gives you more plausible deniability, so to speak?Or learn a conlang and make your inappropriate personal confessions in a language that only ten or twenty other people in the world can read fluently. :-/