A lot of commenters have been asking
What it feels like to have tics
and if I can stop them or keep them from happening
this is the video where I'm
answering your questions!
Howdy, lovelies! I'm Livvy and I have Tourette's
and a long list of other things too
Thank you, Tourette's! For showing up
so if you watched my first video
I explained the four different types: Motor, Vocal, Simple, Complex
all those kind of things but
I realized that I didn't actually define what a tic is...
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well according to the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses: Fifth Edition
a tic is a sudden rapid
recurrent non-rhythmic motor movement or vocalizations
okay
so what does that
really mean though what does it feel like to have Tourette's to have a tic
A tic is basically like an urge or compulsion
it's not involuntary but it's not voluntary either it's actually something
called semi voluntary movement or unvoluntary movement basically what that
means is that it's technically me doing it like it's not just like it's not like
a spasm or shaking when your blood sugar's low
it's an urge that you literally cannot resist
irresistible is kinda used
to describe like desserts and stuff but I mean it literally like you really
can't resist doing it you can suppress them but it is very very very exhausting
to try to hold in a tic you can feel it like immediately or at least I do I feel
it it just drains me so yeah you can like suppress them but you
really can't not have a tic.
If the tic wants to tic it's going to happen you
can maybe delay it maybe not always sometimes I don't even feel them coming
they just sort of are existing... like hello!
sometimes I can feel them coming
really just depends it can sometimes feel like I'm doing it on purpose if I'm
really tired sometimes I really can't tell
is that one a tic? I don't know
I don't care
it wasn't until when I start having
tics when I was alone and well really when I turned having tics that were
really bad that was when it was like okay yeah no this wasn't fake
If someone tells you they are doing something and it's not voluntary
believe them you know
assume people are telling the truth don't ever like accuse somebody of lying
or going "oh you don't have that. you have that"
just makes me really feel really bad
about myself because I'm not faking I'm not doing it for attention
I have easier and better ways to get people's attention then to suddenly
spasm or say something random so it happens and that's it
that's just it it's just my body like goes do this thing okay
Tourette's is
basically the main tic disorder oh if you show all different types of tics so
I showed you my first video for I think longer than a year then you can be
diagnosed trips when the day of some thought if it says that you have to be
under the age of 18 I was talking about Iran gist and she said that it used to
be 21 and under I would have qualified took my text wrote upon hours about 20
but for some reason I changed it to 18 and that was kind of why my semester is
miserable because no one could diagnose me for a neurologist I hope that answers
your questions thank you for asking them and for participating comment below if
you want more videos about Tourette's or about any other of my mental illnesses
which I have like six Tourette's, anxiety, depression, bipolar,
ADHD, OCD 6 yeah 6 but I know of that have been diagnosed
correctly thank you for joining me today and I hope you are having a wonderful time
Stay Safe, Don't Die,
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