May I please borrow your brain?

Thanks to New Scientist, I've just discovered a disease I'd actually like to have. It'd be a little inconvenient in some ways, but personally I feel that the pros would outweigh the cons.

It's called hypergraphia, and the author writing about it in New Scientist is Alice Flaherty, a neurologist who has experienced this condition as well as written about it (The Midnight Disease). She calls hypergraphia "an exaggerated desire to write" but it's not desire, it's compulsion. She wrote and wrote and wrote until finally she needed to be hospitalised. OK, that I don't want, but some innate motivation to write wouldn't go astray. I've got a novel to write, and for something that I want to write and am even enjoying writing, it sure is progressing slowly. After two years, I have 12 000 words. Frustratingly slow progress.

I don't regret the field I chose; I find microbiology and biochemistry fascinating, but sometimes I feel like I should learn more about neurology. The little changes to our brains can make such huge and spectacular changes to our behaviour and perception; it really is amazing.