I wonder how many people are out there who are 25+ (I'm 37) and kind of never had their ocd or TOCD noticed and treated in childhood. I suffered in silence a long time due to multiple factors.
I wish people would be more careful giving TS medications like the atypical antipsychotics, especially by checking if lowering their dopamine is gonna make other symptoms worse. I was prescribed it without anyone checking me for ADHD symptoms or depression, both of which it turns out I had, and it made me so indescribably miserable for ages before I finally gave up and stopped taking it.
Roughly 60% of TS patients have reported to have OCD symptoms, whilst its around 70% with ADHD symptoms alongside TS. Also yes, it is common for tics to develop from heightened OCD symptoms/obsessions.
I'm curious and confused about the findings that those with childhood-onset OCD with tics have a different symptom set than those with OCD without tics. I'm 42 and have OCD (diagnosed when I was 33) which began when I was 8 or 9. I've also had motor tics that whole time - sometimes more present that others. Yet, while I have some mild 'just right' obsessions, I mostly suffer with severe obsessions around contamination/illness and have done since childhood. Is this unusual?
Some people with TS also have “regular” OCD. I had that type as a child, and it went away once I went on Zoloft but the Tourettic OCD-type symptoms never did. It could also be that you have primary OCD and tics secondary to that, rather than the other way around.
Thank you so much for this very detailed presentation! You have helped me understand my child so much more.
I wonder how many people are out there who are 25+ (I'm 37) and kind of never had their ocd or TOCD noticed and treated in childhood. I suffered in silence a long time due to multiple factors.
I wish people would be more careful giving TS medications like the atypical antipsychotics, especially by checking if lowering their dopamine is gonna make other symptoms worse. I was prescribed it without anyone checking me for ADHD symptoms or depression, both of which it turns out I had, and it made me so indescribably miserable for ages before I finally gave up and stopped taking it.
Did you end up taking anything?
Do you know the % of adult onset of tics with OCD & ADHD comorbidity?
Also, is it common for tics to develop from heightened triggered OCD obsessions.
Roughly 60% of TS patients have reported to have OCD symptoms, whilst its around 70% with ADHD symptoms alongside TS. Also yes, it is common for tics to develop from heightened OCD symptoms/obsessions.
I'm curious and confused about the findings that those with childhood-onset OCD with tics have a different symptom set than those with OCD without tics. I'm 42 and have OCD (diagnosed when I was 33) which began when I was 8 or 9. I've also had motor tics that whole time - sometimes more present that others. Yet, while I have some mild 'just right' obsessions, I mostly suffer with severe obsessions around contamination/illness and have done since childhood. Is this unusual?
Some people with TS also have “regular” OCD. I had that type as a child, and it went away once I went on Zoloft but the Tourettic OCD-type symptoms never did. It could also be that you have primary OCD and tics secondary to that, rather than the other way around.
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