Sometimes I twitch and sort of bark in public or in private. It’s almost like a shiver, my whole body moves, or (for example) I might lightly hit my desk during class. Sometimes I can feel it coming a little bit but I usually can’t stop it. I am fifteen and this has only been going on for a few months. Is there any way that I might have mild Tourettes or is it just a twitch?

It could be tourette’s. It depends on how often you do these things. People with tics or tourette syndome would do it constantly, like a hundred times an hour. If you just do this a few times a day, then there’s nothing to worry about.

If you do them very often, then I would say it’s definitely a tic disorder. Did you have tics as a young child? Maybe you didn’t even notice them, but if you did, then it is likely you have tourette’s.

If you never had tics before this, then it’s transient tic disorder. If it continues for another few months, then you would be diagnosed with tourette syndrome.

If your wondering about anything to do with this just send me an email. I’m 15 too and I have tourette’s.

I myself have Tourettes and ADD. And was wondering if Adderall(For ADD) Increase tics for those with Tourettes or Tic disorders.

And another concern is loss of appetite while on Adderall. Or Stuttering

And if you could name any other side effects for Adderall that’d be great. Thanks

Amphetamines have been known to make tics worse in patients with Tourette’s syndrome. Adderall is a mixed amphetamine product indicated to treat ADD/ADHD. Yes, they can cause loss of appetite as well. In a clinical setting, a doctor will need to weigh the risks vs. benefits of this type of treatment. In some cases, it may be appropriate. There are "non" stimulating drugs for ADHD also, like Strattera. Check out the article below for more on ADHD drugs.

I’m 19 years old and for the past 5 years I’ve noticed that I have many tics which include clearing my throat and sniffing about 50 times a day even when I’m not sick. I just get this feeling in my throat that I need to clear it. I also pull at my clothes every day, turn my neck, and make strange facial twitches with my eyes, nose, and mouth. And for some reason I feel the need to touch certain objects just to see what they feel like. I also get this urge to repeat words over and over when I mispronounce them. I can control these tics somewhat in front of other people but the hardest to control are my facial twitches. Any help?

With Tourettes, the symptoms are involuntary but some people can sometimes suppress or managew their tics in an effort to minimizetheir effort on funcitoning,. Suppressing causes a great deal of tension, until the tic must be expressed.

Many have ADHD, problems with reading writing and arithmetic, and obsessive compulsive symptoms such as intrusive throughts/worries and repetitive behaviors; depression or anxiety disorders.

Diagnosis include both motor and vocal tics for a least 1 year

I was wondering if it is common for tourette patients to have sexually overt behavior, not verbal tic wise. I work with a gentleman who is very touchy feely and I wonder if it may be because of his tourette’s, he does not have obvious tics but the behavior is concerning is not from his illness.

Tourette syndrome has nothing to do with that. Tourette’s is a tic disorder. That’s all. Nothing else. Common tics are things like nodding, shrugging, blinking, weird faces, grunting, coughing, humming, and so on. It’s nothing sexual.

When I was about 7 I had quite a few tics but was never diagnosed with anything because no one ever did anything about it. They were mostly motor tics besides sniffing/inhaling sharply and the noise when you exhale through your mouth just after you swallow/open you’re throat.

I was teased about the tics almost daily but it only lasted for roughly a year and never really appeared again until now. Im 17 now and the tics have been happening daily for almost a year now.

So can transient tic disorder come back/come and go throughout life or does it just occur once during childhood? Could this be turning into tourettes syndrome?

What should I do?

I am not a doctor, but by your description of having both movements and noises, you had Tourette Syndrome for years already.

That’s all that Tourette Syndrome is, a tic disorder with both movements and sounds. That’s it.

As for your question, can it become worse? Absolutely.

According to studies, the mean age of worst tics is eight to twelve, but mine became quite severe at age fourteen (I’m fifteen now and still disabled by them) and I’ve met many people who continue to have tics later in life, even middle aged adults.

The course of symptoms in an individual with Tourette will vary from person to person.

You my friend, need to see a neurologist.

Be forewarned, however, there is no cure for Tourette Syndrome or tic disorder, and treatment is strictly symptomatic. It will take time and effort to find the right combination of medication and behavioral/psychological therapy to help you manage your tics.

Best of luck!

-Melody

I am a 16 year old female

Hiccups almost ever day multiple times for short periods

I feel I have to rub my nose every so often even though it doesn’t itch

Constantly smoothing my hair (worse if I wear it down)

I sometimes have a difficult time speaking because I talk really fast and on really bad days I get stuck on a word or I can’t get it to come out right

These increase whenever I feel stressed, uncomfortable, or embarrassed

I never really thought about this until my friend jokingly began to say tourettes every time I hiccuped. Then, a few weeks later a different friend pointed out that I smoothed or pushed back my hair a lot especially when I became nervous or excited. She said it was sort of like I had a tic. Could this be a tic disorder or am I just weird?

Tics — yes, likely. Disorder — no.

What people have to realize is that EVERYONE in the free world has many mental illness ’symptoms’ — in fact a great deal have some low level degree of mental illness.

Think of it as no one is perfect physically… some are more fit than others.. some struggle to do the ‘normal’ physical things .. some might have some lower back pain or shoulder pain, or other pain in the body because of poor posture, weak muscles, and so on.. that needs addressing.

Point is that yes, your observations are most likely ‘Tics’. But so what? Tics , by themselves.. are incredibly common. Most people have a tic or 10 they present daily.. most don’t realize their ‘tics’ or habits.. some have and just don’t care.

We are moving beings,.. as humans.. we don’t just sit catatonic — so if emotion causes us to subconsciously or consciously smooth our hair,.. rub our nose.. tap our fingers.. clear our throats and on and on.. it is natural.

No sense in worrying about something that at 16yrs of age you just ‘realize’. Understand?

If you had a "Tic Disorder" .. ie: Tourettes — you would have long ago realized the disorder and have already sought treatment for it. There is little to treat — but everyone could use some mental health counseling, preventative treatment and so on.

I’m not sure when it will happen, but eventually mental health will be treated like physical — in that routine ‘checkups’ are common, and preventative treatment will be the ‘best treatment’.

Nothing wrong with you,.. at least not any more than the next person. Make sense?

Relax,.. if these actions make you overly self-conscious and this uncomfortable feeling won’t leave.. talk to a therapist about them. You can get rid of Tics.. though we all tend to replace them with something else.

I have a few tics of my own. Most everyone else would call these things ‘nervous or anxious movements or actions’.

Just watch people sometime. You’ll see them scratching, rubbing, stretching, bending, coughing, clearing, blinking, snorting and so on as a ‘habit’ not so much as a one time thing to help the itch, or relax the muscle, or clear the sinus.

If people read the DSM,.. the criteria to diagnose mental illness just about everyone on the planet could and would fall somewhere in some illness as a positive. This criteria is only useful in people whose lives are significantly effected by these things.

Now relax,.. forget about it.. and go on living your teenage years!

-I touch my face. When it itches or gets sweaty, I’m extremely prone to touching my face. I always just touch in general when I’m nervous though, regaurdless of my face sweating or not. It seems to be my nose that I play with the most.

-When I’m anxious, I clamp my hands together as if I were praying. But I’m not praying. I just feel tingling in my fingers out of nervousness and that HAS to stop. I also twiddle my fingers repetitively.

-I check things back and forth. Last night I checked the car several times in the back before I locked it so my mom wouldn’t get mad at me in case I didn’t bring all the groceries in. I’m most prone to checking the mailbox. No particular reason at all. Like, see, I found old lint or paper in it and that freaked me out so I took it out. I don’t get why I do this. I also check the kitchen pantry, freezer and refrigerator and I have no idea why.

Sometimes, while in the bathroom, I take my sponge and I push it across my chest over and over until I feel satisfied.

-I began pulling my eyebrow hair yesterday. I just pluck it when I feel this imaginary "twitching" thing, which I’m relating to anxiety. I had to pluck certain hairs out with tweezers because they were too long or stuck out and that bothered me to my wit’s end. But usually my fingers do the trick.

-I do this weird thing; when I was twelve I told myself that if I walk across the speed bump a few times my mom would pick me up from school and if I didn’t, she wouldn’t come so I walked across the speedbump. I do stuff like that a lot, a game I call scenarios. This isn’t a problem anymore, but something I still do on a regular basis.

I’m going to the doctor, but insight would be nice.

…i’m no doctor. we all have compulsions. i’m a counter. i count everything. but i believe when it comes to ocd, one is driven to the compulsion because if the ritual is not performed, something terrible will happen…ie, you mom not picking you up or your mom getting mad at you. make sure you bring th is up with the doc. it sounds like you may also be suffering from anxiety.

Often times, I have the sudden urge to blink very hard and sometimes wiggle my ears afterwords. It gives a buzzing sensation to my ears. Sometimes I won’t blink hard, but I will blink very quickly. Often times, I’m not even aware that I’m doing it. When I am aware of it, I can suppress it, but it feels very uncomfortable. If I squeeze my ears for a few seconds, it gives an intense buzzing feeling to my ears, and I usually don’t feel the urge to blink hard again. I usually do this when I’m in a more energetic environment, such as playing sports, walking and talking with a friend, or just laughing. I’ve been doing this on and off for the past few years, but it’s starting to get worse at school, and it’s a bit embarrassing. Several of my friends/acquaintances have asked me if I have tourettes syndrome. I also often fold my ears with my fingers in class, but I am usually aware of this, and I can stop without feeling much of an urge. My mom says that she has also had tics on and off for her whole life, so it could possibly be hereditary. I’m 16 by the way.

So I have two questions:
1. Do I have a tic disorder/which disorder is it?
2. How can I get rid of the tic?

I’m 14 and I was just recently diagnosed with tourette syndrome. From what you described, it sounds to me like you have chronic motor tic disorder. To have tourette’s, you must have motor and vocal tics. Do you have any vocal tics? Did you ever have any vocal tics such as sniffing, coughing, humming, etc.? If so, then it may be tourette’s because you don’t always have to have the motor and vocal tics at the same time.

Tic disorders are hereditary, so you must have got it from your mom. This will also help with the diagnosis if you go to a neurologist. My dad also has it, but much milder than me.

You should make an appointment to see a neurologist. It usually takes quite a while to get an appointment, but to make it shorter, you can go to your normal family doctor first and get a private appointment, but this still could take some time.

The medication that is usually used is called clonidine. I was on it for a while, but it made me really tired and didn’t do all that much for my tics, so for now I’m not on it and I might start taking a new medication another time.

I hope this helps. Good luck!

This has nothing to do with self injury…..aside from the fact that I forgot my arm warmer! oh my goodness. But im covering some parts with annotations and most is not that noticeable because most of my scars on my arm are older and pale. If you think you will be triggered, dont watch this. But it barely shows.

This is about showing what my movement disorder is and what I deal with.
There is so little information out there about this kind of movement. It’s probably a tic disorder, but my movements dont look like the ones that are commonly described. I wish I could find a video with movements of this nature…..so…this is a video for those like me….this is a video about it for them

My appointment is Friday. Cross your fingers for me.

I’m feeling really self conscious right now. I know I look like a defective freak. ;(

I’ve talked about this in another video. Here is the link if you wanna see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j98duqGvpL0

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For all who hurt–Hurting people hurt others. Its not you, they are the ones who have a problem. They are sick and being mean makes them feel better. They just want the reaction so they can get high feel good from it. The words are not true. Abusers use tricky words. I know parents can say things that are true partially, but is it right to bring up the past over and over? You have to look at the agenda and not just the words alone to see the abuse sometimes. Look for what’s right. Abuse is anything that’s not uplifting so forget what truth is being used right then.

Going thru a bad past/putdowns,rejection/father gone lets other things start. BP Anorexia, cutting, OCD, anxiety, panic attacks, hearing voices, psychic dreams can all come from a tramautic past. Its opens doors to the negative and they start to dwell closeby. They have problems not you.

Demons are related to fallen angels, angels who rebelled against God. Demons are evil, deceptive, and destructive. According to 2 Corinthians 11:14-15, demons masquerade as “angels of light” and as “servants of righteousness.” Appearing as a “ghost” and impersonating a deceased human being definitely is a disguise that demons use. They also cause plain harassment and emotional torment such as so called schizophrenia.

Turns out psychiatry is not based on science. Its like a theory and a guess. Doctors only practice this theory on the side of being docs. There is no medical background to it at all. Psychiatrists do not draw blood to determine the presence of a biochemical imbalance in patients. They merely observe and announce the existence of imbalances. They just desire to believe without science. –Quackery

God helps anyone even if they dont know him.

1. Play Christian music.
2. Say get out in Jesus name in each room.
3. Throw away Ouija boards in case you own one.
4. Rid house of all unholy or sinful items books cd’s
5. For Abuse- Google "Emotional Abuse" Abuse brings demons.
6. Google "Sinners prayers"
7. Google "Deliverance prayers"

Contact me on Y mesgr to talk/ and pray.

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