NO
Tourettes is a motor nervous (neurological motor ) syndrome.. and has absolutely NOTHING to do with sexual deviancy…

a deviant is a devaint.

<Holy God Above I am a deviant yet I do not have Tourette’s… join my group….>

Get Real. I have
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http://www.tsa-usa.org/Medical/whatists.html

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
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Tourette Syndrome Association

study by James leckman

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!
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(from concordia university’s art therapy department website )

The program at Concordia is offered as a graduate program, and you are required to either have done your undergrad in fine arts, or take a certain number of fine art classes. I don’t know how other schools organize their curriculum, but I think that’s definitely a good place to start your research, the person I talked to when I called the Concordia department was immensely helpful and answered all my questions (I ended up deciding art therapy wasn’t for me at that time)

As for salary, from the few conversations I’ve had about this, I hear it can be a difficult avenue, that many art-therapists do it for love while holding a day job to pay the bills. But this may only be true for some, ie for people who choose to work for themselves, and build up a client base from the ground up. Something to look into.

hope I could be helpful
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I don’t check things like you do, so maybe that could be OCD or something.
And when I was younger I walked to a nearby elementary school for my school bus to pick me up and take me to mine, before I crossed any streets I had to cross my eyes and then continue because I believed that if I didn’t do that then I’d get abducted. Looking back it was really strange.
But it sounds like it’s all connected to anxiety and maybe OCD.
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