A person with Tourette syndrome who holds back their tics may look fine, but keeping these involuntary urges contained can be draining.
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I often feel that I live in my body alongside another person who wants to continually move and say things.
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Obscene language tics, called coprolalia, don’t reveal what people with Tourette’s think and feel. In fact, tics often compel people to say or do precisely what they most wish to avoid.
People with Tourette’s experience uncomfortable physical sensations that build up in the body and come out as ‘tics’.
The film moves decisively beyond the sensationalising of Tourette’s symptoms so often seen in the media.
Fans of singer Lewis Capaldi helped him finish a song at a concert in Germany this week, after symptoms of his Tourette syndrome suddenly flared up. So, what is Tourette syndrome?
Functional neurological disorder – not Tourette’s – is at the root of the post-pandemic tic problem.
We don’t laugh at people with bipolar disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder, so why is it OK to laugh at people with Tourette’s?
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Singer Bilie Eilish has spoken about her Tourette’s. We need more people like her to speak out.
There’s more to Tourette syndrome than swearing and shouting. Over the last several years, many life-altering treatments of this tic disorder have become available to patients and their families.
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Deep brain surgery has been found to alleviate the symptoms of severe Tourette’s syndrome. Ten out of 11 patients with Tourette’s…
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