The truth about Tourette's syndrome

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@Mr6eebeerend: (cont.) As for clearing your computer of my 'rubbish' - do so! I'm not making you watch my videos and you don't have to comment on any of them. Goodbye and I wish you and your father all the best.

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@Mr6eebeerend: (cont.) As for Tourette syndrome being only a disorder of involuntary swearing, you have missed the point of this very video - only about 10% of people with TS have coprolalia (involuntary swearing). Visit the Tourettes Action UK website (or the website of another TS organisation) if you would like confirmation of this. (Cont...)

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@Mr6eebeerend: (cont.) tic with my diaphragm and throat. This causes a variety of problems. I didn't choose to use the services of *four* neurologists, so don't blame me for that one. Yes, you are entitled to your opinion, but surely it would be far better to express it in a calm, mature manner rather than firing off insults. Perhaps then I might listen to you and treat your comments with a little more respect. And wrongly accusing me of 'hacking' your account hardly helps your case. (Cont...)

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@Mr6eebeerend: (cont.) need for you to take out your anger about yours on me. Moving on: I don't juat twitch a tiny bit every now and then - I'm purposelessly twisting and tensing muscles around my body all the time. These aren't really noticeable to anyone else but they are noticeable to me and it can get quite painful after a while but, apart from these videos, I generally keep quiet about it. The worst one of all is the breathing one - I have trouble breathing normally, as I (cont,..)

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@Mr6eebeerend: (cont.) My grandmother developed dementia about a month and a half ago when she fell and hit her head, causing bleeding on the brain. She subsequently fell and broke her hip; because of this and the dementia, she needs constant care. She doesn't recognise any of us: that's it - gone. Yet still with us...in a sense. So are we going to turn this into some sort of 'my beloved relative's iller than yours' contest? I would hope not. Everyone has their problems and there is no (cont...)

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@Mr6eebeerend: I'm not sulking. I don't care what you think but I do mind that you feel justified and qualified in judging and condemning me when you don't know me or my full situation. It is sad that your father has cancer but that doesn't prohibit others from talking about any other problems. Whole families are being shot and bombed and driven from their homes around the world. Does that mean you may never speak of your father's illness? Does it mean you never complain about anything?

[Mr6eebeerend]

You wasted the time of 4 nurologists and they are paid a fortune.This money would be better spent on people with real illness.You say i,m stirring up trouble and that I should'nt draw attention to myself.So I will stop.And I will endeaver to wipe clean my computer of all your rubbish.And now I know what you are like.I will read not 1 word futher of any of your nonsence.Get real you fake.

[chess7390]

@Mr6eebeerend U lie, the main symptom is not swearing, its coprolalia

[mrlaa1]

@Mr6eebeerend Live for one day in my body mate you'd fucking top yourself. Fuck off and study Neurology then you absolute wanker. You deserve fuck all talking to people like that.

[Mr6eebeerend]

Stop sulking and grow up.So you twich.No need to take on me.I have a valid opinion.And I know these so called education vidios have no foundation.Tourettes is an illness the main symptom swearing.You do not seem to have this symtom.My father has cancer and it angers me that people like you play lame with your twiching to generate sympathy.Well I have no sympathy for you.People don't care about you and your fake illness.

[mrlaa1]

@Mr6eebeerend Yes your father has cancer. That doesn't mean you can single handedly accuse an entirely different medical illness of not existing as if you have some sort of autocratic authority over the entire field of medicine. I have lost a parent myself. I deal with it. I also deal with a neurological disorder every waking second of every day that makes life impossible. You think you know how it feels? I wish you could. You would shut up with your bullshit then.

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@Mr6eebeerend: (cont.) I have never said my 'illness', which has been diagnosed by four neurologists as Tourette syndrome, is serious. I am not a hypochondriac and am in reasonably good health. As stated in my profile, my videos are not for sympathy but for education - on behalf of all with TS, including those who have it more severely than I. If you don't want to view such videos, I suggest you do not search for them or click on them. Stop moaning and stop making unfounded accusations.

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@Mr6eebeerend: How about growing up yourself and not stirring up trouble and insulting people just to draw attention to yourself. I am a twenty-two year old woman (although I was a few years younger in this video) and I can't see that I've been rude to anyone (except when they've been rude to me, but if people can't show respect, why should they expect it?). I haven't 'hacked' your account - I wouldn't even know how to do it and if I did, I wouldn't be so stupid as to leave my name!

[Mr6eebeerend]

Your illness is not in the slightest bit serious.You are just a rude little boy seeking everyones attention.I have no interest in you or your hypocondria.Millions of people in Britain are ill and dying today so stop complaining like a baby and stop hacking into my sites with all your trivial rubbish.There is nothing seriously wrong with you so GROW UP and leave my sites alone.This is for your own good.

[makooo95]

This looks more like OCD then TS I think.

[ksaxchick]

I started watching Tourettes videos because Matthew Brown, (swiftkaratechop) one of my favorite youtubers, posted a video about his Tourettes Syndrome. I've been watching them all night. Watching videos about it really inspires me to do a shift in my career to do something to work with tourettes patients. I currently want to be an elementary school teacher, but this is making me consider a shift. Every one of the videos i've watched has been inspiring.

[jaydy11]

I did a shoulder tic the same time you did just saying

[40ozToFreedom89]

tourettes sucks dick....

[smestr36]

that is nothing comparing to what i saw

[MelancholicBard]

Does a kind of treatment or theraphy exist about the Tourette's Syndrome ?

[oneisi]

@MelancholicBard I heard that a form of electroshock therapy works well. I have never taken interest in tourettes but I read an article on electro shoc on depression and aparantly it works. I believe the said electro shoc therapy is far different to what has been popularised in media over the past decades. This one is actually an implant (into your brain) rather htan external nodes.

[oneisi]

@MelancholicBard search newscientist and electrical-engineering-fixes-b­rains-circuit-board

[MapleContest]

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[Tictionary]

@MapleContest: Thank you for sharing your immaturity with us all.

[MapleContest]

Lol, I was hyper when I posted that comment. I have touretts syndrome also. Mild.

[Mollydancr]

Thank you for this video. My son(age 10) has Tourette's and has the same type of tics you showed. He has no verbals tics, it is not as common as they show it to be. Once again, thak you :o)

[hoturtu87]

It's hard to tell when so many people are posting fake videos. The main problem I see here are the comments. In his Video Description and his Video, he has presented a mature,intelligent display of his disorder.While the fake one's are more easy to spot for their stupidity.When in doubt, the best policy is not to post a negative comment. You might be hurting someone who is human, No different than the rest of us.We all have challenges in life, he is asking you to respect his.

[JuliansExtras]

It looks like not a problem to have, when you have simple, small tics like that, but then when you go out in public, and it begins to happen plenty of times, I see how it can get to be incessant, and get in the way of simple daily activities. Sadly, not everyone in the world is lucky enough to have small tics like you. Some people have some fairly serious tics, and for those, I feel true sorrow towards.

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@Fatboyblitz: lol

Why should I watch what I say? Your three sentences seem to sort of...well, they make sense in a sort of disjointed nonsensical way.

[fugtard]

I forgot to laugh.

[GuacamoleKun]

Aaaah, oh god, make it stop, I feel like I'm getting it just watching you. D: D: That looks DAMNED ANNOYING to have.

[Tictionary]

Don't give up the day job.

[randomness164]

does it get better when you get older???

[JLKnChrist]

Do any anti convulsive medications help ?

[CelticReject]

I could really identify with your video. However, as I got older the tics seemed to become less obvious. Though the neck twisting still remains I seem to have developed a lot more control over them and can resist for longer. Additionally, I don't care what people think so much. If they have a problem with it... it's their problem!

[88HHWPWW]

Mine became less obvious with age too. Plus I got better at hiding them

[finntothenicky]

10%! that's the percentage i've been dieing for so that i can correct assholes when they're making inaccurate imitations.. thank you!

[Tictionary]

Hehe - no problem! Glad to be of service :)

[ixododae]

Thank you for at least trying to give a realistic account. I am so sick of people asking me if I swear every time I have to explain why I pop my jaw or can't stop tapping my foot lol. Unfortunately coprolalia seems to be the only thing sensational enough to get media coverage :(. Keep it up!

[Tictionary]

Thanks :)

[sdthird10]

hahahahaha'1!!!!!!!1111

[killer273657]

BOB SAGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tictionary]

Maturity. You're doing it wrong.

[LaffingGod]

i have a weird tic...on rare occasions my head twitches to the right rly quickly

is that tourettes?

[Tictionary]

If it is a tic (and not a spasm or dystonia etc.) and you have had it for more than a year, it could be chronic motor tic disorder (similar to Tourette syndrome).

[ticnatic]

Thanx for demonstrating the high bandwidth of possible tics! no tv documentary does that...many people suffer (unknowing) from "light" tourette and thereby have social and/or mental problems. A more differentiated media enlightenment would help a lot.

[videojudge01]

u look around my age. i'm 16. and theres one BIG thing that i'm learning about tics, its that they can be cured, by u, and by u only. most of my tics are caused by depression and/or when things bother me. is that how it is for u? and wut i did to lower their frequency a LOT was to not allow things to bother me and except things the way they were, and i stopped desiring.

[Asiancomedian]

It's funny, you have so many tics identical to mine.

[videojudge01]

yea same here

[Citrusrock]

good video! It's always good to show people the truth about how wrong stereotypes actually are.

[wwHannibalKing]

I have a slight twitch...but my doctor told me that it's not TS. I can't really explain it...it only happens once in a while.

Good videos though, mate. Awareness is key. :)

[thehype04]

i have tourettes and OCD i have loads of tics but my OCD is harder to cope with

[twitchyjeff]

Watching the video makes me tic. It's a good video anyway, though I think it's important to sho that even where there is coprolalia/[raxia it's not funny.

[JonahTorn]

Lets start better stereo types like: Tics make people more attractive.

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lol I wish!

[JonahTorn]

Thats the spirit! People who hace tics can grant some wishes. But only when we want and we only take credit for wishes after they have been granted.  That would be an awespme sterotype!

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Hehe :)

[JonahTorn]

That's the spirit! People who have tics can grant some wishes. But only when we want and we only take credit for wishes after they have been granted. That would be an awesome sterotype!

[JonahTorn]

I need to learn to spell. Would you like to ]

grant that wish?

[Festerius2008]

Great video! I have tourette's too, but I don't have coprolalia. I used to attend a support group for TS a few years back and I still have to this day, not met anyone with coprolalia in person, have you?

Also, my older brother has TS but his manifested as palilalia as a young child but he "grew out of it" so to speak and now he doesn't have any tics. I'm 28 and my tics looke like they are here to stay.

[Tictionary]

I've met someone who has the occasional coprolalic tic but I don't think I heard him swear.

As far as I know, I've only met two people with diagnosed Tourette's.

I'd like to meet people with Tourette's. I don't know of a support group near here, but when I see Dr. Rickerds, he might know of one :)

[Rockguitarnow]

Cool video.

I wonder, have you tried some of the alternative treatments? A guy wrote a book that he says cures Tourettes. He said it worked with his son.

At the search bar, if you type in

"Stop Tics And Tourettes"

you can see the video about the book. I just wonder how it works, and if it works well.

Might be great if you make a video on the book's cure to show how it works.

[Tictionary]

I've seen the website advertising this book, but it's a self-published book, with no guarrantee of accuracy (or indeed of receiving it - he might just walk off with my money).

Instead, I am considering purchasing the book 'Tics and Tourette's: Breakthrough discoveries in natural treatments' written by Sheila J Rogers and published by the Association for Comprehensive NeuroTherapy. I've heard it's good and they have a 2nd edition out in October.

Thanks anyway for the information :)

[hollytoo]

Thank you for sharing these videos.

[Tictionary]

No problem :)