helpful trick for severe TS attacks!
Question:
> My boss, who had witnessed earlier the coke-can toss ("just don’t open > the can yet")
Shoot, I was hoping the can had been open when you threw it. : ) steve
Response:
> My boss, who had witnessed earlier the coke-can toss ("just don’t open > the can yet")
Shoot, I was hoping the can had been open when you threw it. : ) No, but two days earlier my boss watched me throw a plate of salad on the floor. Then apologize, pick it up, and throw it again before he insisted I give up and let him take care of it. (Talk about tossed salad!) My poor boss. He used to only have to clean up after my ADHDish project management… But he wasn’t fazed at all by my profanity. I hear him curse under his breath all the time, and he doesn’t have TS. Alex 
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Response:
In article <811iur$19o…@twwells.com>, anon-23…@anon.twwells.com (Alex Neilsen) wrote: > After tossing a can of coke at a filing cabinet and shouting "This is > bullsh–!" at work today, I was sure I was going to have another episode > like the one last week which got me restrained by 4 men and taken to the > ER in an ambulance. > (I read what I just typed and I’m laughing at the absurdity. I mean, > how many people feel like throwing things and screaming "this is > bullsh–!" at work? And here I didn’t feel like doing it and I did it > anyway! Well, in a way I did. I was mad that I couldn’t control my > tics.)
And who in the wold, who never had heard of Tourette-Syndrome, who will understand this? It is our duty to show to the world that we touretters are also here and that we have a right to live our life. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Anyway, I remembered that during my extreme episode last week, the only > thing that helped was to keep talking out loud constantly. Telling > everyone what was going on and how to keep me as calm as possible > considering the circumstances. Closing my eyes when visual stimuli > exacerbated the tics (and watching your boss, his boss, the VP, and > several other people look horrified as they take turns restraining you > in a chair, that’s pretty exacerbating). So today after thinking, my > g-d, I’m going insane, I told myself, no you’re not. Now sit down and > do what you have to do. Which was, talk out loud and keep talking. > First talking out loud about the fact that I needed to keep talking out > loud, and even close my eyes if necessary. Then talk to myself out loud > that I was worrying too much about my assignment. Then I talked myself > through the assignment, literally thinking out loud through all the > decisions I had to make on it. When my mind started to wander and I > felt the urge to scream and pound my desk again, I again started the > calming self talk, then went back to the subject of my assignment. > Somehow silently talking to myself doesn’t help when I’m that worked up; > believe me I’ve tried. I overhear everyone else in the office and react > to it. But since I noticed that even in the most extreme states talking > out loud to others helps a lot, I thought I just had to carry on a > conversation with myself to stay sane!
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Response:
After tossing a can of coke at a filing cabinet and shouting "This is bullsh–!" at work today, I was sure I was going to have another episode like the one last week which got me restrained by 4 men and taken to the ER in an ambulance. (I read what I just typed and I’m laughing at the absurdity. I mean, how many people feel like throwing things and screaming "this is bullsh–!" at work? And here I didn’t feel like doing it and I did it anyway! Well, in a way I did. I was mad that I couldn’t control my tics.) Anyway, I remembered that during my extreme episode last week, the only thing that helped was to keep talking out loud constantly. Telling everyone what was going on and how to keep me as calm as possible considering the circumstances. Closing my eyes when visual stimuli exacerbated the tics (and watching your boss, his boss, the VP, and several other people look horrified as they take turns restraining you in a chair, that’s pretty exacerbating). So today after thinking, my g-d, I’m going insane, I told myself, no you’re not. Now sit down and do what you have to do. Which was, talk out loud and keep talking. First talking out loud about the fact that I needed to keep talking out loud, and even close my eyes if necessary. Then talk to myself out loud that I was worrying too much about my assignment. Then I talked myself through the assignment, literally thinking out loud through all the decisions I had to make on it. When my mind started to wander and I felt the urge to scream and pound my desk again, I again started the calming self talk, then went back to the subject of my assignment. Somehow silently talking to myself doesn’t help when I’m that worked up; believe me I’ve tried. I overhear everyone else in the office and react to it. But since I noticed that even in the most extreme states talking out loud to others helps a lot, I thought I just had to carry on a conversation with myself to stay sane! My boss, who had witnessed earlier the coke-can toss ("just don’t open the can yet") asked how my project was coming along. I said, "Well, in case you didn’t overhear the entire conversation…" he nodded and laughed. I think he was just relieved that this time I was able to restrain myself. Alex — For info about this service, see http://www.twwells.com/anon/ or e-mail: h…@anon.twwells.com — for an automatically returned help message ad…@anon.twwells.com – for the service’s administrator ano…@anon.twwells.com — anonymous mail to the administrator
