what about semi colons em dashes and ellipsises i use those a great deal as well as parentheses--nested on bad days  for me its trying to run the whole idea together without letting it get interrupted my wife talks a lot about how i seem to think in gestalts and my writing reflects it each subphrase of sentence is a different facet of the whole idea and taken as a whole it makes sense but individually the cast weird shadows oh yeah thats another thing i will bounce from metaphor to metaphor within a sentenceits probably really annoying to try to read my stuff when the meds have worn off  im pretty comfortable say that when im writing its really hard to keep both a writable sentence and the thought im trying to convey in my head at the same time which is really bizarre now that im thinking about it as i tend to experience my thoughts as streams of text but maybe its not so odd because im also trying to see that what im saying is coherent while im writing it and writing seems to use a lot more of my brain than thinking or talking even if those are kind of like reading and writing experientially