Tourette Syndrome

When is it time to get help?

If you have Tourette syndrome, you may want to learn how to manage your symptoms, or you may be living with your symptoms successfully but are still dealing with other mental health concerns that are the result of, or impacted by, Tourette’s. This may include:

• Learning disorders
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Autism
• ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactive disorder)

If you are experiencing mental health issues due to, or made worse by, your Tourette’s, you may want to consider seeking help.

Tourette syndrome treatment methods

Tourette syndrome can be manageable and can be treated in several different ways, depending on how your symptoms are affecting you and your wellbeing. Some effective treatment methods include:

• Behavioural therapy tends to view human beings and behaviour with the assumption that humans are a product of their sociocultural conditioning and environment, looking at the current problems and the factors influencing them and emphasizes behaviour changes more than the underlying unconscious processes.
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)is an evidence-based approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves.
• Mindfulness therapy is an approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves, others, and the world. The ability to be in the moment, to acknowledge and regulate your emotions helps you to break free from negative thought patterns.
• Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can allow clients to travel deeper into the unconscious or subconscious to look at and work with issues and ideas perhaps inaccessible otherwise. It’s like guided daydreaming: a form of relaxed concentration.

Together with your therapist, you will find treatment methods that are tailored to your individual personality and circumstances.