Game Crashing

[Cadenzia]

Hello there!
I'm popping in here hoping that someone can help me with an issue.
As of late EQ has been crashing for me whenever I try to type in the chatbox in game.
The crash is generally so severe that I need to restart my computer. -_-
This has been going on for nearly a month now with my version of the game, I had logged off a couple weeks back to wait for a patch to see if would resolve the issue but it hasn't.
I hope that someone will be able to help me resolve this problem.
It's never happened before and I do find it quite odd that it would start happening now after the game has been working so well.

Thank you! <3