Talk about RAGE attacks!
Question:
Fortunately, I have been spared rage attacks, instead of welling up with rage, I well up with tears. This is not to be confused with depression. I am very frightened of people who have the rage-attack component of Tourette Syndrome. My father was one of those people. He used to beat my mother, brother, and me. Often he would just start swinging with no provocation. I’ll never forget the time he almost killed my mother, and she had to be hospitalized. It seems as though when discussing rage attacks in people with TS, we prefer to say that they don’t go as far as hurting other people. We talk about their bouts of breaking objects–that’s more politically correct. Some of the stories I have heard first hand are: The child who beats up his siblings and parents. The man in his 20s who hit his mother so hard that he had broken his own arm. I never learned what happened to the mother. The man in his 40s who pushed an elderly lady down a flight of stairs. Most of the horror stories will remain hidden. They will never come to the attention of the TS researchers. I may be wrong, but I believe that in most states, cases of battering that come to the attention of school and medical personnel must be reported to the police. You wouldn
