What Are the Most Effective Treatments for Tourette's?
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2011
- Dr. Lawrence Scahill, a Yale School of Medicine professor and psychopharmacology expert, discusses the best treatments for tic disorders like Tourette's. Medications can be very effective, he says, but new behavioral interventions like habit reversal therapy (HRT) are also producing surprising results.
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Thank you for sharing this😊
I have tourettes and I try to hold them in but it only makes it faster and worse. great video
Really? I got rid of mine with holding them in.
You’re not alone💗
@Arian Caesar I know right? had in elementary school but they complete went away during grades 8 to 12. right before college it came back and made my life a living hell
Potassium permanganate
@@justinc2801 same here, any advice??
Just try holding them in. It may hurt, it took me a good year before I could start holding them in without it hurting, and now I am normal, I dont feel the need to tick every damn second. I'll tell you, it's the best damn feeling ever getting away from ticks. Just work hard on trying to forget about them, and it truly pays off.
No chance in my case. My tourette mixes itself with compulsive thoughts like fights, supernatural thoughts, or just sentences. And within tenths of a second my jaw starts biting itself together. Even my head moves towards another direction. I have tried every consciuos movement: I even blew up my cheeks. But then I felt a force like a boxer moving it up again and once it was opening my mouth: BOOM! The jaw bites itself together.
You didn’t have Tourette’s if that worked
@@sunchabbee 😂😂😂😂 I've never heard someone say that before lol
What tic did u have?
It's neurological.
reading to all this comments of all of you people, first of all i wish you all somehow to become calm and to get well, what i am trying to say is that i got my tics or tourette or both when i was 11y old i guess, and at first there were blinkings, then it started by head movements, then some sounds like short sounds and singing etc..by the age of 15y i think i got my self to point i was thinking of suicide, at that point in my life, i started crying a lot at nights..then 1 day i decided to not go to sleep and to focus on my ticks and movements in the silent hours of the nigh sitting on the edge of bed, for at least couple days, then couple months..and then i continued to do so daily in school, thinking of not doing them and while being out with friends, just focus on inner movements...and finaly it helped, i almost got rid of every tic, except eye movement sometimes and head movement sometimes, but if i dont want to, i could not do any of it for as long i want! today im 43y old, and sometimes im so calm, and resless its insane and so peaceful. I wish you could all feel the same, love you all, stay safe.
Thank you so much for this. I am an adult living with tourettes and literally can't live like this anymore. My job now is to aggressively get better. I'm doing my research before my neuro appt on 1/30 and your video has helped me so much. I believe I may have had a grandfather and/or great uncles with tourettes and either they died accidentally trying to self medicate or they killed themselves. I just know I can't do this anymore and I'm going to do it or die trying
Try smoking cannabis... one higher in a compound called CBD. Really try this if you can. Even a little can help a lot and all the other medications have far greater risk of addiction or harm in every way. I hope you see this (best to get a medical card and try the strain Harlequin).
I know you won't believe me but marijuana will help you. I used to take haldol, orap, and clonidine. For years. It was real bad. I started using marijuana and within a year I was off all medications. I'm 30 years old now. Off the pills for 15 years. People don't even believe me when I tell them I have TS. Take back your life. I promise you can. Weed will help you.
+Danielle Pate Hi, I would like to hear from you how has this helped your life since a little time has passed now?
I am a fellow Tourette's Syndrome person. The reason I am writing is that I disagree with some of this video's host's opinions. If there are such tics as shoulder jugs that don't do any harm to you, there is no need to try to prevent or cure them but to let others surrounding you and yourself think that it is a part of you and it's all right. People still think that you are a good person even with tourette's syndrome. Tourettes can and does affect your life so much that you have to agree that tourette's syndrome is a part of you and you can not cure it. You live with it as you have lived with it so far. And you have to accept the symptoms and feel the acceptance of everyone surrounding you in order for you to be yourself: a person that has tourette's syndrome.
Occasionally you might not have tics but they come back. As they have come back to you all your life this far.
So what you need to do is step one. And I have to remind everyone reading this that even I am not farther than step one and maybe will never be. Step one is to recognize the tics that do harm to your body. For example grinding your teeth together harms your teeth. Whenever they come, just try to do something else, eat chewing gum or just focus on your breahing. And you will start to think something else and forget the breathing but it's ok. Just when you notice your mind is going somewhere else, grab it and bring it back to concentrate on your breathing. Then you don't grind your teeth. And it is much better way to focus on your breath and help your teeth not to damage. Time will show you how it will effect. This is a good way of therapy, i think. And when a tic causes pain you have to do that again: replace it with something else painless.
But if a tic is not harmful, I don't see the point not to let yourself tic. This is a syndrome that is part of you and there is no cure. Everyone will accept your tics because they know that it is just your thing and they love you whatsoever. Releasing all the tics later in some kind of eruptions is sometimes overwhelming and too much to handle. And also if you need to focus not to tic when companied by other people, you can't really live 100% in the situation as yourself but you have to hide a part of yourself and that is not a good thing for your self competence.
Just a few things I got in my mind based on this video. :)
+Petri Taanila I've actually done pretty well the past couple of years. My tourettes was in remission, but came back recently with a bout with bronchitis that started me doing this deep exhale tic. The tic made the bronchitis worse, the bronchitis made the tic worse. My neuro has retired, and I see a new one on 1/28. On my channel, I make a lot of tourettes awareness videos. Check them out sometime and good luck.
@@daniiiakasha1436 its been 4rys do you still have them pls lmk because my lil bro has them
Honestly I can’t be in the same room with someone who have turrets like me. It will make my tick worsts. Reading some of ticks you guys described having. Give me the urge to physically do it. I have to skip reading the comments that describing there ticks because its giving me new tics into my mind and I’m trying it out.
I need a doctor who can treat my tic dissorder im from Philippines
Potassium Permanganate caused Tourette's syndrome. Forward. The PH is close to Alcohol PH.
I have tics. Idk much but I do know if you hold in ur tics they get worse and until you can stand it no more but to just tic.
When my tics were loud and noticeable I was given clonodine. This made me to drowsy to tic, and it was extremely helpful. Clonodine permanently calmed my tics down.
I still have them but I no longer head jerk nor do I make loud noises. Its just small body movements and none of my vocal tics are louder then whispers
Unfortunately it took forever to get my prescription and Unfortunately I had it taken away a bit to soon. I also just found that clonodine had served its purpose. I know use cannabis, but clonodine was necessary in getting rid of loud embarrassing tics
Does it really help?
@@Fatima-gv2mu yes
Even after I quit taking my medicine it kept louder, more disruptive tics from happening
Edit: This was talking about clonodine
@@Fatima-gv2mu cannabis can help with tics, although clonodine is much better at suppressing tics. However clonodine has some unpleasant side effects that make some people stop taking the medicine (fatigue, wanting to pass out, nausea). However clonodine can also treat complex/loud/frequent tics much better.
Cannabis can also help with emotional distress caused by tics, while medicine simply suppresses tics. If I was in a quite room with other people I would be distressed, because I would be concerned about bothering other people with my tics, clonodine would simply suppress my tics, while weed would make me feel less anxious about the situation all around.
I find myself less anxious with weed but I still tic. Personally I would suggest prescription first
Tl;Dr yes and no
@@youtubeaccount5673hello sir pls how can the side effects of nausea be stopped because the drugs I took has caused it for me and I don't know how to go about it. I can't eat or swallow food 😢😢 help me
I have a horrible form of this disorder, and my Mom just tells me to "Stop the noise." She does not understand, or is not willing to understand my ticks. Dad did, but he passed in 2017. I need help to help my Mom understand. I'm profoundly disabled, and have a trach, and ventilator.
Very informative. Do you offer Habit reversal training at Yale? Where were the two studies done?
Anyone know if there are affirmations available to help? I feel like I can't even make a video and don't talk right anymore. I want to learn because I'm on enough meds as it is. Can anyone ease help?
I moved out my mom's house when I was fourteen and into my dad's. Around that time is when I learned I had tourettes, after a while I started to visit my mom for weeks at a time. She noticed that I was ticking and got mad and said I was faking it and told me to stop sooo yea... We're going to a doctor's appointment soon to check if I'm faking this so that'll be fun
My parents thought I was faking it at first to. At points in time they've told me I dont have it/never had it
At the current point in time it's been more noticeable so it can't be denied
But yeah a diagnosis can help people understand
I respect this man and harbor no ill feelings... but I don't see how many people with Tourettes are okay with the whole redirection therapy thing.
My mom had been trying to teach me that all my teenage years and still at 22 I accidentally slip into that mindset when I'm around people. It's mentally stressful to redirect, to me it's the same as suppressing.
I view it as "Torturing myself in a large quantity right now, to try to prevent the smaller tortures throughout the day" because yes it could help me prevent my tics in the future, it also it's extremely taxing on me physically, mentally, and in a lot of cases emotionally.
Again I mean no disrespect but I'm not sure how to understand this way of thinking. I also have Autism and find it hard to put myself into other ways of thinking sometimes and if anyone would like to try to help me understand this please feel welcomed to, but also don't feel obligated to of course
I’d be that your last paragraph explains why you may not get it. I have Tourette’s, I’m not autistic, and honestly don’t see a problem. Redirection is a technically correct way to put it. Dunno why you think of “torturing oneself” cos I never had that pop up once in my mind lol. It’s honestly not worth really thinking too much about. Plus, it helps foster neural circuits that are more useful in the long run.
Got to fight the urge.. it's the only way for me to stop the tic. Be aware like he said.. unfortunately I always get a different tic a month or so later or the same tic will re surface. But it helps for a while.. right now I've got like 5 different tics. I'm actively focusing on stopping giving in to the urge because if I let it get bad that's when I can't control when it happens, I just subconsciously do it without thinking or even noticing I'm doing it... that's the only advice I can give. But I wish I didn't have this at all.. I'm 36 and had it since I was 5
I think this tension will always come and you'll have to release it somehow. I had some embarassing tics at the age of 11 and later tried to fight the urge. It worked in the sense that those particular tics stopped. Im now left with some minor tics which I blend in with natural body movement. It rarely happens that people notice something is off and even then it's so minor they don't mind. I've noticed practising technical sport helps too, maybe because it keeps the mind busy.
@@cedrics7374 true.. people dont often notice my tics now a days.. after I wrote this comment I developed a head twitch that was noticeable and annoying to me jerking my head up.. luckily my stress has gone down and its mostly back to hidable tics..
when i was 6 years old i took clonadine for my tourette’s for a while. i completely changed. i gained so much weight yet i barley ate. i got off the pills and my i was myself again. i will never go back to it
Did you get your tics back after stop taking pills
@@misssid188 yes you will
How??
Pls help me find one
Maybe check with Loma Linda Hospital.
I've had tourrettes for about 20ish years now. Mine are vocal tics. Not like cursing or yelling but like humming, throat clearing, my tongue will move uncomfortably in my mouth. Makes it very difficult to talk sometimes when it's very bad. My wife completely understands and will wait as long as possible for me to communicate
Sir I have vocal tics, I can't talk well I will be uttering out some unwanted speeches, I can't sing without something blocking my words, I can't pronounce words that start with letter B and M, etc
Life is so difficult for me for 4 yrs now. I use to be an artist but now I can't sing or talk well 😢😢
sadly i have curse, throat clear, and cursing, and whistle too
Love that for you man. My fiance is the same, she has Bipolar 2, ADHD, and OCD while I have Tourettes, OCD, and Autism
I've experienced all of those tics as well, I'm 22 but have had tics since like 11 I'm pretty sure(memory is pretty shoddy) I've also had ones where I yelled, more like just loud sounds like big exhales combined with my vocal chords wanting to make a "hoo" sound
I remember the first day meeting my fiance, it was through online dating. I had resorted to it because it's pretty hard to meet people that are accepting in real life and it's a lot easier to know if someone is understanding and accepting if you tell them "I have Autism, OCD, and Tourettes" through text before meeting in person... if they still wanna meet that's a good sign, if they don't then they're not even worth your frustrations ya know?
I had told her and she said her twin brother has autism and she understands what it's like to communicate with autistic people and she thinks of us as equal and what not. She was kinda surprised by the tics I think but she wasn't ever rude or judgemental but it's understandable that someone would be surprised by having a constant skipping record/sound machine, ya know?
It's always really good to have that one person you can share your life with that's not ashamed to have you with them. My fiance would never be embarrassed by my tics in public, I've had tic attacks in stores and she just held my arm tight and stared at anyone who stared at me lol
If she waits for your mini tic attacks to finish in the middle of you trying to speak or rant about something then she's a keeper man
I can't tell you how many times a conversation has gone:
"Yea and I was" *starts bobbing my head to the right in a slow speed repeatedly to the right while winking one eye*
"Uh *repeats the aforementioned tic pattern"
"Uh" *repeats*, the uh *repeats*
"fuck what was I saying" *I say with my right cheek so high my right eye is closed
And she just waited patiently lol
I'm happy for you man. I'm glad to hear it.
Sir I have vocal tics, I can't talk well I will be uttering out some unwanted speeches, I can't sing without something blocking my words, I can't pronounce words that start with letter B and M, etc
Life is so difficult for me for 4 yrs now. I use to be an artist but now I can't sing or talk well 😢😢
I has TS majorly until I was maybe 16, now it’s not too much. I’m 29 now and find my way here for anxiety lol
Really high amounts of CBD Oil
I have tourette syndrome but in a very weak way, it’s not that serious, but it can be annoying anyways, so would be good to know how to cure 😂
In what way is it not that serious?
"What are the mostly effective treatments for tourette's?"
Cannabis, thank you.
Correct for sure, but do yiu know how j can help myself naturally so I can speak normal? I'm on enough meds from a TBI
Not in my case
Cananinbis fuckd me up don’t spread false info
Doesn’t help mine
Taking a half step backwards also works
My son is using Cilift for his tourette..anyone else using Cilift?
I think vaping is making my tics worse. Ever since I started vaping, especially heavier, it’s been getting worse
I'm not even old enough to drive a car and I have this frickin shit happening to me
I was on haldol for it and it didn’t fucking work. It only made me depressed as fuck and hungry all the time. We tried others as well. They didn’t do shit either. My mom says she’s taking me to a neurologist soon. I honestly don’t want to go.
Neurologists have helped save my life. I suggest you go or hope u went, I wish you the absolute best, and me and everyone reading this
Have you tried to change your diet? I have food allergies and sensitivities and have had twitching as a cause of it, i think diet is the way to curing this condition. I'm not gonna call out any foods but try to stay away from the most common foods people are allergic to for a couple weeks or so to see if you notice any change. My recommendation is to eat only meats and salad and just salt and garlic as spice. Try to stay away from chicken and eggs at least in the beginning i react to these but then im allergic to antibiotics and believe thats why. Take note it can take a long time for your body to get rid of some allergens so the longer you go on this test the more certain you get but you should start feeling a difference quick. Its basically called a elimination diet if you want to read up on it.
@Kyle Byrne As ive mentioned i personally get ticks from certain foods im not here offering any solution to fixing tourettes im simply offering another option to look into. Many illnesses are a cause of not just one thing but many in combination. And just to give you a wider perspective of what food is and can do to your brain, LSD is a fungus/mold who grows on a grain our food isnt just the compounds of what they are but also the compounds of all the contaminations surrounding it both natural accruing and due to how the food is processed so please, to say im pushing people down rabbit holes by suggesting diet to be looked into thats a far stretch.
Desperate for anything im tired of everyone just staring its almost offensive when someone asks me “why do you do that”
Blocking dopamine doesn't sound so healthy. . .
Holding it in only makes it worse
My turrets weren't so bad until they out a stupid camara at my job right in front of me.. just made me feel like I was being watched all the time... And once I got my house neighbors would fuck with me I hate this
The only thing that would calm my turrets is alcohol now
Medication should Only be used for extreme tourettes
Not even for extreme variety. The medications makes it even worse.
Help me
My tick is *shit*
try creating a new tic THAT IS NOT AS BAD as your current Ive tried that it sorta works
Just eat grass fed and finished meats and organ meats. completely cut carbs, and consume vitamin b1 from natural sources like fish 2 times a week.
when he said medications I knew he was paid. No truth.
Wow. This guy pretty language spewed for pharma garbage. Lol lol killing us softly with his words.😂 OMG this was hard to watch! - Tourette's person
Yeah, I dont even take meds for my tourettes. I eat an ancestrially appropriate diet full of grass fed and finished beef meats, steaks and organ meats, along side raw dairy, raw organic honey and lots of delicious whole, organic fruits I grow myself. The diet + exercise and getting in nature has reverted my tourettes tics and urges to completely nothing lol
the way this person talks, how slow he talks irritates the tick outta me
In other words, you don't know anything, you are just guessing, and playing Russian roulette with peoples minds!
haha simple minded is right!