Tremor (Shaking)

Your hand lifts the cup — and it trembles. Not strongly, perhaps barely visible. But you feel it, and sometimes someone else sees it too. Your body is doing something you did not order. A small movement you cannot stop. A vibration passing through you without asking.

Tremor has many faces. It can affect the hands, the voice, the knees, the chin, the eyelids. It can appear after a shock and quickly disappear again. It can show up in stressful situations, before a performance, before an important decision. It can be triggered by cold, by exhaustion, by too much coffee. And it can take on a life of its own — becoming the essential tremor that is there every day, without any apparent cause, making writing difficult, drinking difficult, speaking difficult.