In this documentary, the inner symptoms of Tourette syndrome are revealed and openly discussed by people who experience them every day.

How does it feel to tic? Why can’t a person stop ticcing? What causes vocal outbursts and other extreme tics? Are motor and vocal tics truly involuntary? What is going on inside one’s mind during obsessions and compulsions?

These questions are answered in detail and much more is revealed about this mysterious disorder as six individuals with TS take the audience far into the Tourettic mind.

Film website: http://tourettemovie.info

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butiamnotcrazy’s QuickCapture Video - March 16, 2009, 10:09 PM

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Many people think that tics and compulsions are on different ends on the same spectrum. Although they are connected in some ways and people with either Tourette syndrome or obsessive compulsive disorder will often have traits of the other, tics and compulsions are different in that they are responses to different things.

I also talk, in the second half, about the compulsion spectrum and obsessive compulsive disorder, although I haven’t given this much thought and don’t know as much about it as the tic spectrum.

Sorry that this jumps in the middle and repeats a bit - my camera switched off half way through. Sorry also that it’s so long.

None of my videos are for sympathy, just for education.
This is not a comedy. If you are looking for something to laugh at, please go elsewhere.
If you have any (polite, respectful, genuine, mature) questions, please go ahead and ask and I’ll do my best to try and answer them for you

Duration : 0:7:40

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My Experience

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Ms. Harlow explains the results she’s experienced with Brain-Based Therapy for her ADHD/Dyslexic child.

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Psychology Test - Are you Normal.

Dr. Breeding, Ph.D. psychologist discusses the concept of normal. Mental health is defined in terms of normal by psychology and psychiatry. If you don’t fit into the box, you might be labeled with mental illness. If you too happy you are manic. If you not happy enough you are depressed. If you concentrate too much you are compulsive. If you don’t concentrate enough you have ADHD. If you think about sex too much you hypersexual. If you think about sex too little you hyposexual.

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This video may be displayed in public, copied and redistributed for any strictly non-commercial use in its entire unedited form. Alteration or commercial use is strictly prohibited.

Duration : 0:10:9

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This is the best I can do to show what mental tics are like. They are actually extremely difficult to simulate.

- Please read and follow the instructions carefully.
- You will need the sound on at a reasonable volume. You will also need two small pieces of paper and something to write with.
- It is important to let the video load first to avoid stopping half way through.
- Although you can of course watch this as many times as you want, it will only really work once (if at all).
- Do not read the comments that other users have posted underneath the video as these may spoil what is in the video and thus make it ineffective.

I couldn’t use my current mental tics as an example because they include the F-word. Instead, I have combined mental tics from when I was about 3-5 years old with ones from around 11-17 years old (they last a long time!)

None of my videos are for comedy or sympathy, although this particular one is partly for empathy.

If you have any (polite, respectful, genuine, mature) questions, please go ahead and ask and I’ll do my best to try and answer them for you

Duration : 0:5:33

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A clear, concise version of ‘Tics and Compulsions: The big difference’ with extra information about tics and compulsions.

Many people think that tics and compulsions are on different ends on the same spectrum. Although they are connected in some ways and people with either Tourette syndrome or obsessive compulsive disorder will often have traits of the other, tics and compulsions are different in that they are responses to different things.

PLEASE NOTE: I begin by explaining my previous theory and then explain my revised theory and end with some more insights into tics and compulsions.

Please note that this video is based on personal theory and not medical or scientific fact.

None of my videos are for sympathy, just for education.
This is not a comedy. If you are looking for something to laugh at, please go elsewhere.
If you have any (polite, respectful, genuine, mature) questions, please go ahead and ask and I’ll do my best to try and answer them for you

Duration : 0:7:41

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Pioneering therapeutic trials to investigate the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in hard-to-treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourettes syndrome are underway at multiple medical centers around the world, according to a review in the June 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Deep brain stimulation has long been seen as valuable for controlling movement disorders, according to the review, written by Susannah Tye, Ph.D., Mark Frye, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Kendall Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Department of Neurosurgery. It now is being investigated for hard-to-treat psychiatric disorders, according to the authors.

Early results indicate the effect on depression and obsessive compulsive disorder is beneficial, but the therapy needs further study, Dr. Lee says. The potential for this breakthrough treatment is enormous in reducing the toll of mental illness on patients, their families and society, according to the review. Unlike electroshock therapy (ECT), which stimulates the entire brain, DBS stimulates specific parts of the brain. DBS is thought to be functionally equivalent to creating a lesion on the brain, but with the advantage of being adjustable and reversible.

It is like implanting a pacemaker for the brain, says Dr. Lee. The patient is awake during deep brain stimulation surgery while a neurosurgeon implants the electrodes. Patients are able to give immediate feedback. Additionally, patients do not feel any pain during the implantation procedure since the brain is without pain receptors.

In the developed world, major depression is second only to cardiovascular disease in premature mortality and time lived with disability according to the review. In persons aged 15 to 44 years, depression is the most disabling medical illness in the United States. The prevalence of major depression, known to be a chronic and relapsing illness, is approximately 17 percent, affecting almost 1 in 5 persons.

Medications and psychiatric therapy can effectively treat many patients with major depression; however, up to 20 percent of these patients fail to respond to these non-surgical therapeutic interventions.
DBS is not a miracle cure and should not be used to treat all depression, says Dr. Lee. It should be reserved for those patients who have treatment-resistant depression, and approved by a multi-disciplinary team. Ongoing advances in DBS technologies represent an important new field that could greatly advance the understanding of psychiatric neurobiology, according to the review.

Duration : 0:2:25

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Made this in response to a friend who also suffers, they delete their accounts VERY often so I am asking another person to post this as it MAY help just ONE person, if so it is worth it.

It’s all about living in the “now” that and from my MANY years of living with it by “Living Through It” I have also learned it has NOT killed me yet, why should I think it will now.

With these simple thoughts in mine and FIRMLY believing them I have come to gain so control to be able to at least cope in the world I live in WITH my anxieties.

There have been times I have literally sat on my couch and rocked for SIX MONTHS at a time, so you know I have “been there”

I hope this helps someone, somewhere.

If there is any particular questions you would like to ask me, feel free to do so, I will do my best to answer if I am able to and/or even post a Video, simply let me know.

Love and Light as I know there is indeed HOPE~

Peace
Mistress Reba

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