#premonitory urge

[asexual-amanita]

I wish people knew how uncomfortable Tourette’s is for so many of us.

Most people with Tourette syndrome have something called a premonitory urge. This is essentially a feeling you get before you tic. For me it’s like there’s a ball of pure energy trapped in my chest and it’s trying to claw its way out. It’s like electricity running through my bones, conducting the power of a lighting strike. Like sandpaper underneath my skin, like my veins are filling with lead. Like my blood is bubbling, every cell in my body screaming for me to do the tic. It’s horrible. The longer I try to hold the tic in, the worse the feeling gets. And no matter how hard I try to hold it in, it always comes out in the end.

[hydeingpurples]

Tourette's Awareness Month - Day 2: Keywords

Complex tic: when multiple muscle groups are used, multiple words (e.g., throwing something)

Premonitory urge: a very uncomfortable sensation (a build up of energy, electric/fiery/bubbling/tickling/crawling) that builds up before a tic. Not everyone experiences this and it doesn't happen before every tic.

Suppressing: the act of 'holding in' tics, often increasing the premonitory urge and making them worse later. Not everyone can suppress and it can only be done for so long. People may do it to avoid judgement, for safety.

Coprolalia: a socially inappropriate vocal tic (e.g., swearing, a slur)

Copropraxia: a socially inappropriate motor (physical) tic (e.g., 🖕)

Echolalia: vocally repeating other people's words or sounds, can also extend to animal sounds

Echopraxia: physically repeating others actions

Waxing: a period of increased frequency or intensity of tics, or a flare up

Waning: a period of decreased tic frequency/intensity

Tic attack: a highly intense period of constant, often intense, tics, completely uncontrollable and unstoppable

Trigger: something that sets off a person's tics or a particular tic

Dystonic tics: slower tics, abnormal posture or straining of a body part

Blocking tics: a tic which takes away a person's ability to move/speak

There are definitely more but these are a good handful!

[touretticlife]

5 things only tourettic people understand

The feeling of knowing a tic will stay or not

The relief of ticcing

Not knowing if it’s lingering echophenomena tics or becoming your tic vocabulary

Sensory issues

Not knowing if it’s a tic sometimes, because it’s automatic like breathing and mimics your everyday moves too

[someoneq]

they weren't even trying to write it as that but this is genuinely the best description of premonitory urge ive ever heard

especially when its sensory tics that just sit no matter how much you try to get them to go away

sometimes you find the deepest understanding for the concepts you struggle to explain in the worm episode of a horror podcast I guess

[a-hopeless-aromantic]

i hate the premonitory urges for my breathing tics (my most common tics) so much they are awful

I’d honestly rather have my middle finger tic more often (given I won’t get beat up for it or smth) because the premonitory urge is so much more comfortable and manageable

I had an hour break from really bad breathing tics which were replaced by the middle finger and it was like a breath of fresh air (although that could be because I could actually breathe normally) they come quickly and the tic happens and they leave me for a few seconds

the breathing ones (when they’re bad like today) happen every couple seconds and the premonitory urge never fucking goes away

[the-grape-entity]

Ticcing isn’t enough I need to simply press my eyeballs all the way back into my head

[missp4st3lmonster]

Using my blog as a platform because I need some help and google is not helping. Additionally I’m in the process of changing doctors since I’m at the age I have to change doctors.

I was diagnosed with Tourettes around 2019 when my parents finally let me see a doctor as they also were convinced it wasn’t normal since I wasn’t growing out of my involuntary behaviors. (Some of which I didn’t even notice until several people told me about them). Long story short with time my premonitory urges I get before a tic have gotten more painful recently and I have no idea what to do about it. Additionally, sometimes the urge lasts longer than usual and I pray I can just get it to leave.

It doesn’t seem normal— is it normal? Can I make it stop?

Any advice is welcomed, I just want it to stop

[that-was-anticlimactic]

the urge to love you is stronger

"Councilman Qiang’s chair was one of the most aggravating chairs in the entire world.

Sokka hated that chair. No, it wasn’t because it was special or different than the others, it didn’t look weird or anything of the sort.

Sokka just really wanted to touch it. More than that, he needed to touch it.

The council meeting of the day felt like an echo chamber; the same old men were complaining about the same old things and suggesting the same stupid solutions to the same problems they caused. Even if Qiang’s chair wasn’t distracting Sokka, he doubted he would have even had a chance to add anything to the conversation. Even Zuko, the literal Fire Lord, could barely so much as open his mouth.

And it was ridiculous. Sokka had been doodling his absolutely beautiful boyfriend during the meeting, but when he had taken his eyes off of his drawing to steal another glimpse at Zuko, his neck twitched to the side and he caught sight of the edge of Qiang’s chair."

[or In the midst of a council meeting, Sokka gets the (premonitory) urge to touch the back of a councilman's chair. But Zuko understands. And is so kind. Zuko could make anything better.]

(I’m bad at summaries sorry)