Tic Mythology 4 - Treatment: Building Awareness

This is the first video in a set that I’m making about treating Tourette’s and Tics. I started this video intending to make one about treatment in general and realized partway through that it might be more helpful to break it up into parts. So this first video is about building awareness of tics. This is an essential step for treatment. You might think “Of course I know I have tics!” That is almost certainly true, but you may have some you aren’t aware of! You also may have some that you only notice sometimes, but that awareness isn’t all that reliable yet. By building reliable awareness of the tics, then it becomes easier to build awareness of the premonitory urge. And then you can more easily begin training your brain to not do the tic!
You also get to see a bit about my love of computer parts as I was wearing my (very) old Zip Zoom Fly t-shirt. I'm not sure how old that shirt is anymore, but I don't think the company exists now...