Questions in The Mental Health Forum are currently being answered by Roger L. Gould, M.D., affiliated with U.C.L.A., and author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program. My symptoms are that I cann't write like I used to be able to. My hand trembles.
Some days are better than others.
But it is embarrasing, as when I have to write my to sign in at some meeting or take notes at a meeting I cannot write legibally. Some days I don't feel that I am nervous or under stress and it still happens. It is a tremor that is not associated with other physical findings such as masked facies or shuffling gait in Parkinsons disease. Anxiety about having a tremor can sometimes make it worse. The treatment is with medication called Inderal which is a beta-blocking agent and is often used for cardiac related disease and social anxiety.