Posted by Sigismund on August 11, 2009, at 17:18:33
In reply to Have I really got Tourette's - please help..., posted by jms600 on August 11, 2009, at 16:48:37
Have you ever held a baby standing close to an edge?
It is perhaps natural to wonder about throwing it over.
To some extent everyone feels this around, for example, heights. Otherwise it would be no trouble to stand on the edge of a very high cliff.
I'm always saying things that are mildly inappropriate, which I put down to a mixture of boredom and aggression.
>I also have other compulsions - such as wanting to push my girlfriend into the road when she is walking along side me or stabbing my brother with a knife when we are sitting down at the dining table eating together. These 'feelings' really upset me.
I think I understand what you are talking about. It is a worry that if the feeling was stronger, you might actually do it, or maybe there are people who would.
I recall in Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" that someone with Tourettes found some relief in APs.
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