Tics and Tourette syndrome – Akron Children’s Hospital video
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While it takes more than the blink of an eye or a nervous twitch, in the right combinations, these simple movements could indicate that a child has a tic disorder. In this Children's Channel video, Katrina Lindsay, PhD, NCSP, a pediatric psychologist at the NeuroDevelopmental Science Center at Akron Children's Hospital, discusses the diagnosis and treatment of these chronic conditions.
Who is here not because Billie Ellis
But because they actually have them
I’m here because my girlfriend just told me she has them. And want to know more about them.
Me
I’m here cuz Jess
I don’t know her lol
No but a twitch streamer I like has tourettes and I was just curious.
Friend: why are u jerking your head?
Me: i have tics
Friend: Ticks ewwww
Me:?
Yea it’s sad
just show them this video
can y’all stop commenting about billie omg
Potassium permanganate caused Tourette’s syndrome. nothing to do with creamers.
Billie has tics also tho
Yeah fr tho
•Wolfy _thefurry• cringe ?
Nope
Comments: “STOP TALKING ABOUT BILLIE EILISH!!”
Me: *Scrolling and seeing nothing about her but those, “stop,” comments.
@Brizeidy Negrete damn ur a random
Billie eilish has tourettes???
To the fans of Billie Eilish:
I too am a fan of Billie Eilish but please don’t comment about her Tourette’s and all. I understand your trying to be helpful but this is for people that have Tourette’s syndrome and are trying to find a way or are trying to help someone
Thank you.
I’m here cause I actually have tics
Duct bIliE ElIsH
ZbIsMe I can tell you barely have friends
ZbIsMe I’m not specifically speaking to you, but in general,like I came to this video for my sister bc I’m worried abt her but when I’m looking in the comments I see a lot of comments abt Billie and don’t get me wrong I’m not hating or anything, it’s just kinda annoying
There’s literally nothing that won’t offend someone.
I have Tourette’s but my parents deny it and say they will go away. I have been doing the same tics for over 3 years
@Alivia Stack Yes you can, they don’t check anything. They see what kind pf weird movements you do.
@Joebatain Maxx No, i do the eye thing. So it probably is ;(
@J7 Yes, i did that when i first had tics.
@Valice I’ve had it since i was six, now I’m almost 11.
Mine took me to a doctor, at first they were annoyed. My doctor said don’t try to stop it because it makes it worse. Now they are used to it. Lol
Tics are not always repetitive. Some people have very different tics each day. And some people have only a few that happen over and over. It varies.
@Coco Caramel do you know at what age this starts, such as a 13 year old?
TiccingTeen – I started when I was playing a video Game cause I noticed I blinked my eyes very Hard and I thought the video game done it but I don’t know maybe a coincidence
@Coco Caramel to he honest, I can see where he got that question from. I’m a 14 year old girl, I started getting tics when I was 10, andbthey have gotten progressively worse (they are verbal now, whereas before it was eyeovements and hand actions). I play a lot of call of duty, fortnite etc. On my xbox, and I’ve found that whenever I’m playing, my tics do get worse from concentration. So, although it says in the rulebooks that they’re not necessarily worsened by certain situations, I think that maybe they are right, and maybe it does get worse for them when they play video games. It is different for everyone, and everyone has a different experience of tics.
This wasnt meant to sound rude by the way, I just thought I’d mention what happened to me ?
Yeah, my tics change all the time, it’s pretty annoying
Purple Water Lily I keep yawning and feels like I have to sneeze but when I’m about to I don’t it happens like 10 times then goes away
My son is 9 and his tics started at age 3 when he started going to kindy. It was always an eye twitch. After he stayed home for the holidays it stopped. He then got to grade 1 and he was alright with minor eye twitching. Year 2&3 he had a teacher who yelled alot and he started a throat clearing sound which worsened when he was in class. He always complained of a headache and tried staying home alot. He is now in year 3 and 9years old. This year he is in a different school with alot of problems in making friends. He now had a neck tick which he says he feels like screaming or crying but the movement in his next takes some feelings away and he doesn’t want people to see him as over emotional. I am considering home schooling him next year. Not sure what else to do
All throughout Elementary and Middle School I had really a bad blinking tic and I was constantly called out for it. I would be so embarrassed that I would just put my head down so no one could see me
I strongly suggest YOU read the book, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die.
It will clearly explain what is going on for him.
to help him with it at home is to listen to a song
I am curious they eye twitch you’re talking about is it like he can’t control his blinking
? And did he ever take the corner of his eye and feel the need to stretch it out? If that makes sense
@israel F I’m not sure if you’re joking or not by suggesting casually giving LSD to a child but if you were serious when you said “what’s the worst that could happen?” here’s your answer: https://www.drugs.com/illicit/lsd.html
In addition, in most countries it’s considered equally as illegal as heroin and meth, and it would definitely be a crime to give it to a child unless it was a medically-approved medication prescribed by a doctor but it’s not used as a Tourette’s treatment. So in addition to the medical and psychological risks to the person using LSD, a parent who gives it to their child would risk prison time and having the child taken away by the government. Also, if they had to purchase it from the black market which they likely would, there’s the risk of it being contaminated or cut with something dangerous.
Who’s here after sidemen Sweet Anita
me
Meee
NO ONE IS HERE BC OF BILLIE! THE PPL HERE ARE PPL WHO ACTUALLY HAVE IT! BEGONE !!
I like you, and yeah no one should be here for Billie this actually matters
Haughty Gamer you know that’s not true when all the comments are about who’s here for Billie
This doesn’t stop Billie from making music I love her
Her tourette’s is not that worst compare to dis children tourette.
@TwisterCuber she does. Small grunts and stuff, she was diagnosed with it but they dont affect her life that much they are minor.
@TwisterCuber 1. they are 2 typs of tics and some have just one.
2.she has vocal tics
bruh
@TwisterCuber She may had in the past, when I was 5-9 I had a really weird vocal tic……No one never diagnosed me or went me to a kid doctor for that and then I was even scolded for my tics so and I replaced them with others that the world doesn’t regnorize, that easy…….It wasn’t easy and it took me years but know my worst tic is an eye tik and you can see it when I am anxious….. All the others are really well hidden from the world
99% comments – Billie Eillish
0.9% comments- I have it
0.1% comments – my comment
Medya hasan me want learn too
Medya hasan I am too?
Medya hasan same
Me here for learning
Who is not here bcs of Billie elish
Is it like a form of OCD almost?
Is it like a mental itch?
They can be associated with other mental conditions, but it’s very different
Umm the sense of trying to suppress it is like a itch I guess you try to resist then you can’t but no it’s not like OCD. OCD is just common in someone with TS, for me it’s like I can’t control my tic so I try to control everything else
Rita Saiban exactly like it doesn’t feel like an itch but it’s when you have an itch you don’t have to scratch but you can’t help it, i can hold it back then i can’t hold it anymore and have to do it
I can’t stop blinking and grunting
@Dôñt_ Jūdgë sweg
????
Mines the grunting and eye rolling (although not as worse sa my grunting) I have this convulse urge to roll them back constantly this dose make other actions more complicated. The grunting dosen’t really affect me it just affects people around me
Jade Robinson I do too
Omg same
Who is here cuz of Billie Eilish
@worm on a string she doesn’t have very very very very very mild , she hide her tics , she said when she’s sleeping she doesn’t stop moving bcz of her tics , in public she hide them ,
I’m here because my little sister who is 5 got diagnosed with hit not because of billie
who is that？
Actually me
Not me
No…I’m not here from Billie Eillish??♀️
For me I can’t stop blinking and when I try to stop my eye twitches
It’s my whole body mostly my arms, shoulders, and head
I got the same
Same I mostly have eye twitching and head jerking ;-;
SAME
∞ I don’t do head movements but I do blink hard scrunch my nose and clear my throat and it’s hard to stop,U can try doing like I do when I feel a tic coming I do something else for example an eye blink I just close my eye for a few seconds then open it so that might help u out for your tics
I got some weird blinking patterns where I get the urge to blink one eye very hard then the other.
someone from church legit asked me why i was winking at him bcs of this lol
Thowe001 OMG ME TOO!!
I also have this thing where everything has to be equal, like if I use my right arm twice I have to use my left arm twice
It’s OCD. I have it too.
I didn’t really know about this but my friend once asked me why I was winking
I do that it could be any number of thing from a siezure like me to anxiety or P. T. S. D. also like me
I have tics. I have anxiety and stress. I sometimes twitch my head or shake my hand
Explain more of your head twitch or neck tic .. my little 15 yrs old sis just started having something similar. And uncontrolled blinking
I have the exact same ones
Yunhoi You know 8 year olds can get anxiety too, right?
Emily Wolfie 345 How do u have anxiety when you’re like 8?
Hey, those are my tics too. I also have it in my leg and kick sometimes