Wow I sooooo get this! For me it wasn’t in writing, but in speaking….when I first started speaking German I felt like my personality had been completely removed and replaced by a tattered grammar book. Slowly I’ve managed to rebuild it again, but I have to say, it’s still not the same complete “me” that I am in English.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/born-again-in-a-second-language/