I was already having a sort of difficult day and told someone about my tics, and they had such a kind and normal response that it i’ve thought about it since.
It was within a therapeutic environment, but I’ve had doctors react sub optimally. It was very refreshing honestly
I’ve been attending group therapy through a partial hospitalization program and am focusing on not suppressing my tics, and treating the group sessions as exposures.
And it’s been going well. I tic. A lot, and no one stares at me. I step out of I need to.
It’s nice. Then, in the real world of course people watch and stare but it feels less harsh because I know it’s up to me if I care.
Honestly never thought i’d get here
How often do you guys have tic attacks?
For the last two years i’ve had at least one a day, and sort of forgot that’s not the case for everyone, now i am curious 🧐
I’ve seen 3 different providers for CBIT over the past two years, and all of them somehow say in my opinion, strange things about TS and tics. One thing I noticed overall is how often they disliked my calling explicitly diagnosed tics Tourette’s. It isn’t REALLY serious, but it gave me weird vibes every time they sidestepped using the word.
I also remember once being told how good it was that I could suppress, and how it would help with CBIT so much. Spoiler, it did not. But that also struck me, because they he turned around to say CBIT is not the same as suppression.
More recently I had a provider say that tics were attention seeking behaviors regardless of if you knew it or not.