That it took me until now to get my disability payment

[Flyndaran]

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a good example i have is actually a tourette's example. one of the guys on my first ship use to always cough.
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Yep, the vast majority of tourettes' have uncontrollable muscle tics and vocalizations. Only in the movies is the much rarer form of copralalia, or uncotrollable swearing, common.
My medication works for a minor anxiety tic I used to have. So many mental illnesses are related.

[telecom_goddess]

Medication can be virtual god-send. My generic Paxil may not let me leave the apartment much, but it does make life orders of magnitude more enjoyable. I would fight to the death to keep it or something at least as effective.
What's really weird is how a trial med worked perfectly for one and a half weeks before severe side effects appeared. It reminded me of just how different and relaxing normal really feels.

I've heard that talk therapy can help with bad habits accrued from a life of avoidance. It doesn't see to work very well for me. I already know all the techniques at calming oneself. They just don't work for me.

I've done the SSRI meds before and will never go back on them....they didn't work that well for me at all. I've also done talk therapy and finished that....I just need someone to kick me out of the house and force me to do something