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A outlook you have

NEVER seen on

Tourette Syndrome.

Including information

Of one of the best selling books,

JERK, CALIFORNIA

ALEX

CO

WIE

A Table of Contents

What Are You Dealing With?

Connections

Behind The Scene Of Tourette’s

Why so easy to target, so easy not

to know

Helping the situation

How can you?

Medication

Treatments

Many with tourette’s syndrome also have other neurological conditions such as ADHD or OCD as well as related problems with education like reading, writing and arith-metic. People with TS have also been re-ported to have anxiety and depression disorders.

Tics aren’t just for people with TS. OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and ADHD (attention deficit hyperac-tive disorder) also involve tics. Invol-untary motor behaviors like twitch-ing, grimacing, head jerking and yawning or vocal behaviors like snorting, grunting, high sounds and

sometimes words are found in people with TS often. In ADHD though, tics can be touching peo-ple or objects, checking if things are closed, or turned off, count-ing, washing hands, getting out of chairs when you’re supposed to be seated, picking something up or putting it down repeatedly, reading, writing and saying some-thing out of turn. OCD’s tics are

checking, cleaning, washing, repeat-ing, ordering/arranging, hoarding/collecting and counting.

Alex Cowie

Basically we treat a person with T.S like there just as normal as anyone else, they start to feel more comfortable with who they are and how to live. People get so caught up with what a person is doing they don’t realize that they may just be harming a person. The best treatment to help someone with T.S is to talk to them and make them feel more comfortable, which shouldn’t be that hard. Some cases that are bad if a person starts to take appointments with a professional physiologist it helps them to take in the fact that they are

Brady Comeau

Getting treat-ment for Tourette syn-drome could be a frustrat-ing or an easy thing to do.

What I mean by this is that Tourette syn-drome is all about the people around you and the social skills of the person. Since there is no actual cure for T.S and there is no medi-cine that is specifically made for it, the main key to helping a person with T.S is to be a great a great friend or family. A high percentage of people with T.S are depressed, the reason for this is that the so-cial skills of a person who has T.S is very low. People see a person twitching constantly they try their best in some cases to not have a con-versation with that person. This is why when you treat some with T.S like there just like you it creates them not to feel so alienated, and not feel so embarrassed when they tic.

Brady Comeau Some things you may not know…

1 in 3 people with a strong case of OCD also

have TS and lots of things you see in TS that

could be tics for that specific disorder can also be

found in other related disorders.

Even though OCD, ADHD and TS are all usually

related, there isn’t a medication that will treat

them all. Each disorder has its own medication.

Depression, lack of sleep, learning disabilities

and behavior problems can be confused with

ADHD and is often misdiagnosed.

The Charts say that.. TS, OCD Charts

-Contamination: 32.9%

-Aggression: 16.6%

-Need for exactness: 8.5%

-Religious: 6.3%

-Somatic: 6.2%

-Sexual:5.3%

-Hoarding/Saving: 4.0%

-Miscellaneous: 20.2%

Alex Cowie

ehind the scene of tourettes & Bullying

What most people

don’t know is that many peo-

ple may suffer from a syn-

drome called tourette’s

weather you know it or not.

Teens seem to use the word

retard in a non offensive way.

Sometimes they may not

know that a person has a dis-

ability and may say “are you

retarded?” to them and would

never know how much it could be

hurting them.

Tourette’s bullying can be 4

different types of bullying, verbal,

physical, emotional

or unintentional.

There are many ways

to solve this prob-

lem.

“They pick on me because I have tourettes. Some-times i just want to yell out to the whole world ’it is not my fault that I have a syndrome that I didn’t choose!’ But of course I can’t, they won’t think I’m sane.”

By : Jessica Lablanc

Drugs used to help control tics have been made. Although

there has been seen nasty side effects, because drugs

used for controlling tics are general used also for high heart

pressure. This combination with the TS usually can cause

harmful things to the patient using them.

Abilify Topamax Zyprexa Geodon Zyprexa Relprevv

Brady Comeau

You can’t keep still, you keep moving and twitching how could anything be worse than this? Tourette syndrome is a disease that creates a person to have no control over their own men-tal and physical state. In today’s medicine we have over commend many

different things including people who have common diseases such as Tourettes. Things such as ADHD, ADD and OCD, are all things that cause people to have lack of control in their own mental state. Medication does have ways to hold down the urges brought by the diseases/disorders.

In truth there has never been a drug that has been pacifically made for TS, drugs used for ADHD and ADD are the most commonly used drugs that can be used for TS. Since drugs for ADD and ADHD are used to generally calm down a person, it sometime can help to calm down someone with TS. Although there has never been a drug made for TS, there was a tested drug made in 2000 when Layton Biosciences received FDA approval for a nicotine patch used to treat Tourette Syndrome in combina-

tion with traditional drugs used to treat tics.

Brady Comeau

Kids with tourettes

seem to be more venerable to bullying mainly be-cause this disease makes the person have physical and/or verbal tics. It can also cause them to be socially awkward. Even though they didn’t choose to be this way they still get picked on. It is some-

WHY ARE KIDS WITH

TOURETTES SYNDROME

EASY TARGETS?

WHY ARE PARENTS THE

LAST TO FIND OUT?

Many kids don’t want to tell their parents that they are being bullied with or without

tourette’s. It is mainly because they are ei-ther embarrassed or they think it is unnec-essary and that it won’t help their situa-tion. It doesn’t mean that they don’t like to talk to you about per-

sonal stuff it is just their opinion on this cer-tain situation.

By: Jessica Lablanc

H ow can you help?

Here are some tips on what you can

do to help this bullying situation

Try talking with your child, making him or her to feel comfortable with the fact they have tourettes. Make sure teachers are aware of the matter as well.

Help the individual that is in need.

Talk to the parents. Talk to the bully

about this certain situation.

By : Jessica Lablanc

Here are some tips on what you can

do to help this bullying situation

· Talk to a parent or teacher or counselor · Stand up to the Bully in a non-violence way. · Go see a specialist that is majoring in tourettes. · Talk to your friends to let some steam off.

Tourette’s is a type of disability that

makes people tick and twitch. Some-

times it can

be severe,

or some-

times it can

be a mild

case of this

cer- tain

symptom. We are trying to do every-

thing we can do to prevent tourettes

By : Jessica Lablanc