Tourette’s Hope

Five Inspiration Questions

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Five Inspiration Questions:

Five Inspiration Questions

 

Have you thought about what makes you happy every day?

Here arr a few questions that will give you food for thought.

  1. Who are the top 5 people you appreciate most and why?
  2. As you focused on others today, what did you see that inspired you? How so?
  3. What 5 negative self-talk comments come to your mind most often? Why?
  4. How have 3 people inspired you through positive talk and 3 through negative talk?
  5. Describe how a group of positive people encouraged you. What did they say and why was it helpful?

 

At Tourette’s Hope Center we raise every day knowing that our goals are ever closer.

Our dream of building our holistic center is getting closer to reality. We need a few good people to help us succeed.

Progress is slowly coming to fruition, new therapies and treatments are becoming available throughout the country.

The use of Occupational Therapy as well as new medications are helping people live fulfilling lives.

Helping thousands of sufferers is our goal.

Answer these Five Inspiration Questions and make  your day better.

 

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Is TS Inherited? – Living with Tourette’s

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Is TS Inherited? is a question often asked.

Is TS Inherited? – Living with Tourette’s
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While the inheritance pattern of Tourette’s Syndrome is not clear, certain features of the condition do cluster in families.

Even among family members of an affected person, it is hard to identify who else has the condition.

Research shows that people with Tourette’s are 50% likely to pass the genes to one of their children.

Is Tourette’s Syndrome Inherited?

Tourette’s Syndrome is a complex neurological disorder which is characterized by sudden, repetitive, and involuntary movements or sounds known as tics.

Tics generally appear during childhood and their severity varies over time. For most kids, the severity of their tics becomes less frequent and milder during their late teens and as adults.

The tics can either be motor tics or vocal tics.

Motor tics are uncontrolled body movements, shrugging of the shoulders, eye-rolling, sudden jerking of the head.

Vocal or phonic tics, on the other hand, involve sudden sound outbursts which sufferers have no control over.

People with Tourette’s are at risk for certain associated problems such as anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and sleep disorders.

What is the Cause of TS?

Although the exact cause of Tourette’s Syndrome is not known, research has established a relationship with genetic and environmental factors.

Most of the Tourette’s cases are inherited but their mode of inheritance is unknown. Additionally, no genes have been identified.

Environmental factors are also associated with this condition. Unlike genetic factors, environmental situations do not directly cause Tourette’s in children.

However, these factors seriously affect the severity of the condition.

Most cases of Tourette’s Syndrome occur from a variety of environmental and genetic factors, and not changes in a single gene.

As a matter of fact, Certain forms of Tourette’s are genetically linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

However, a genetic link between Tourette’s and ADHD is not yet understood.

Finally, the answer to Is TS Inherited? is that the the verdict is still out.

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