u/Anthony_P_V

SO, I’m 26, and as long as I can remember I’ve had pretty bad tics. But as a kid doctors always brushed it off if I brought it off as a “trauma response” or “learned behavior” or an anxiety thing. But it’s everyday, mostly facial tics like scrunching my face, blinking heavily, movin my lips/nose in weird ways, all that jazz. I can hold em off briefly, but it gets me realllly anxious to and there’s like a feeling in my face that only goes away after I tic. I always think of it like an itch that I can only scratch by doing the tic. Occasional vocal tics too, like I’ll make this small noise in the back of my throat. It def gets worse with stress/anxiety so I’ve always just believed it was caused by that, but I read now that anxiety doesn’t cause tics, just makes em worse. Obviousily I’m not tryna self diagnose myself tho. I’ve always wanted an actual diagnoses, especially when I was a kid, but it always felt pointless to if it was just an anxiety thing.