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Ex-sufferer Of Tourettes Syndrome.
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Last updated: 12/2008
How I Put A Stop To Tourettes Tics! No Drugs - No Medicine!
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Welcome to my website. If you or any of your loved one is suffering from Tourette's syndrome, you need to know that there are millions of people around the world suffering from this disorder. I know first hand because I have lived with this often misunderstood disorder for over twenty five years. At the age of six I started to have facial and body tics. As I got older it worsened. The problems I had included excessive blinking, eye rolling, throat clearing, nail biting, touching objects etc. During my late teens while I was at college, things started getting really tough.
I went to see my doctor a few times about my tics. The first couple of times the doctor simply said that it was nothing to worry about and that it would soon pass. Well it didn't. Eventually he got me to see a couple of specialists in this field. Although these therapists tried, they couldn't cure my problems. I also tried alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy, but unfortunately none of them helped.
That's when I started spending hours almost everyday trying to find a cure to my problems, and then eventually after around ten years of research I managed to easily cure my mind numbing disorder without any type of medicine or side effects.
Over the years I noticed that some medical specialists in this field labelled the problems I had as Tourette's syndrome while a few called it OCD, which is short for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Now what is Tourette 's syndrome and what is OCD? Before I explain these two disorders, I would like to say that medical professionals seem to love giving labels to problems people have and at times while doing that, they complicate things. All I know with my simple mind is that, I lived with these problems for over twenty five years and none of them could cure my problems. A brief explanation of the terms Tourette's syndrome and OCD, as understood by medical professionals is given below.
Tourette's syndrome: Tourette's syndrome is classified as an anxiety disorder characterized by tics ? involuntary, rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way. The more common tics are eye blinking, coughing, throat clearing, sniffing, facial movements.
Individuals with this disorder feel the urge to carry out specific actions such as blinking, coughing etc to release a build up of tension. The actions they carry out worsen when they are in stress and also when they are aware of their problem and forcefully try to put a stop to it.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: In OCD, sufferers experience repetitive, intrusive and unwelcome impulses and doubts which they find hard to ignore. Obsessions are the impulses people have and reoccur over and over again. Feeling excessively worried about the hands being dirty for example are obsessive feelings. In order to make the obsessive feelings go away the compulsions are performed. Excessively washing the hands ...
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