r/Tourettes•
erverous

How do you just deal with having TS?

Discussion

idrk what im asking with this, do you change your life around your tourettes if it makes it so youre unable to do stuff? did you search out heavier forms of medicinal help? how to just be okay with having tourettes without resigning yourself to horrible boring life on account of your tics?
Ive had tics my whole life and theyve only gotten worse in the past few years as well as my anxiety. Most days my tics are like a 7/10 (10 being bad enough to go to the ER or something), it didnt used to be so bad so often and would really only get to this point of stressing me out maybe once a month if that. Now that im dealing with lowkey tic attacks so often its just getting harder and harder to accept, im ok with my tics in public as they just naturally suppress but when im at home theyre impossible to keep down and it makes it so i cant do anything. Not physically being able to do something as simple as sit still and breathe just raises my anxiety more and makes the tics worse... Ive tried many meds for anxiety/tics and none of them have ever helped enough to deal with whatever bad side effects. ive tried those dumb self soothing things that get suggested to ppl with anxiety that never help at all. am i just supposed to give up on trying to stop them and just accept that my lifes gonna be mentally and physically exhausting and miserable most of the time? idk if i can mentally accept my tics enough for that, like im fine with them in day to day but with how bad theyve gotten recently its just too strenuous to pretend like that im okay living like this.

Posted Sep 13, 2025, 10:54 PM UTC

55
Loading comments…