I have noticed something with my #tourettes #tics now that can fully relax and stop suppressing them.
I often do when stressed even alone, and causes me pain, so I have been #learning to relax.
I always have one of my arms up. I put one down, the other tics up, without fail.
My left hand is more intricate and detailed in its movements/tics when up, more gentle.
The right hand wants to fling about and be POWERFUL and POINT.
My mood influences which hand I tic with
@RationalizedInsanity I noticed things got better for me when i stopped trying to hold my tics too.
@jrcs3 I am a lot happier and in drastically less pain.
I was 300 pounds, barely alive and bed ridden after being addicted to drugs and on antipsychotics I shouldn't have been on for five years, cuz they thought I had schizophrenia and bipolar, or however you spell the combination. It messed me up more and made my tics worse once I was off them.
I am still recovering.
I feel a lot better, and I am now more fit than most people.
Not trapped by my own body.
@RationalizedInsanity @jrcs3
I'm right with you. I stopped all my psych drugs by November 2003. I don't feel great, but I feel a lot better than I did with the drugs. I'm not perfect, but I'm my own kind of weird.
@RationalizedInsanity@mastodon.social@bardmoss @jrcs3 I didn't feel great for a long time.
I #relapsed a few times before I could get clean from illicit #drugs
They calm my tics. I was in HUGE pain both emotionally and physically first getting off antipsychotics, and harder drugs.
I went through therapy and groups and a few hospitals, #jail once.
Slowly I felt a bit better. Okay after about a year. Good after a year 1/2.
I have been sober (spare weed) for two years or so, and feel INCREDIBLE.
@RationalizedInsanity @jrcs3
I understand and I'm glad you managed to get clean. I did not have the illicit drugs to start with, the things my doctors were giving me were often being used as recreational drugs and they sure didn't feel recreational to me, so I didn't try much of anything else.
@bardmoss @jrcs3 I started with illegal drugs, got hospitalized and put on meds that hurt me, because nobody could figure out what the hell was wrong until I almost died when I was 27 and was doing therapy for other reasons, and met a doctor with Tourettes who immediately apologized on behalf of the entire #usa medical system.
He saw me doing things he did.
I watching a bunch of #youtube people with Tourettes and saw myself doing similar things, and it saved my life.