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People shouldn't feel hopeless about Tourette syndrome, even if they have a bad case. Many people with the syndrome also have other neurobehavioral problems, such as obsessive compulsive disorder OCD and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD. One tic during his adolescence entailed turning off a light switch while jumping in the air. Antidepressant and antipsychotic medications were a mixed blessing, and Mihok does not currently take them.
We did it pretty cold turkey, but I was okay. In school, some of Mihok's classmates made things worse for him. Those nerves would start firing, and I'd maniacally have to do it. But he remembers other people who helped him. Once, when he and a friend were heading home after playing sports, "I had to touch his head with four fingers," Mihok says. He also appreciates the elementary school teacher who encouraged him to tell classmates about his disorder.
What stands out as well are the times he learned useful ways to cope—like when his mother bought him a drum set at age 7 or 8.
Perfecting the timing of the jumping tics helped him develop rhythm. Mihok has written songs, collaborated with various performers, and in formed a hip-hop group called Diz and the Fam. Tourette's shaped Mihok's career choices in other respects.
He also was studying people, especially during the subway ride to his high school in the Bronx. While trying to control or cover up his tics on the train, "I'd notice quirks in others and sometimes try to mimic them," he says. The combination of feeling frustrated with his urges, masking his actions, and observing others made him able to embody characters and access feelings quickly.
But the brain doesn't forget staying up all night with a tic until I cry myself to sleep. In some ways, Tourette's is my Method. While filming a movie or TV show, he suppresses tics by focusing on his role or on not being a distraction. When the director yells "Cut! People often have trouble understanding what tics are like, says Mihok.
Various elements of his behavior suggest that he may have suffered from ADHD 9 9. The year marked the twentieth anniversary of the suicide of the composer and lead singer in the Nirvana rock band, Kurt Cobain 5 5.
Since his preschool days he displayed intelligence and creativity but had considerable difficulty paying attention. He was diagnosed with ADHD and given methylphenidate to treat the condition 5 5.
He performed very badly at school and became involved with alcohol and illicit drugs from an early age 5 5. Cobain collected a variety of objects. He recorded his thoughts in diaries, which acted as therapy for his OCD 5 5. As in Mozart's letters 4 4. However, the many obscenities in his music are very probably more related to the rebellious style of his musical genre than to coprographia. During his artistic career he also wrote lyrics for songs such as Tourette and Lithium. On several occasions, Cobain confirmed that some of his songs had an autobiographical element to them 5 5.
Between the ages of nine and ten years, Cobain experienced involuntary contractions of both eyes 5 5. Kurt Cobain [interview]. MTV Brasil. Unfortunately, there are no reports by physicians about the frequency of these movements.
As Cobain used several drugs and medicines 5 5. Michael Wolff is an American jazz pianist and composer who has had TS since childhood but was only diagnosed with the condition a few years ago. Nick Van Bloss, an English concert pianist, suddenly developed severe motor and vocal tics at the age of seven and was finally correctly diagnosed with TS when he was twenty-one 7 7.
When he was nine years old, shortly after his father's death, he was diagnosed with TS and Asperger's syndrome. With time, his facial and vocal tics have become more manageable 8 8. This study has discussed the clinical conditions of some famous musicians with a view to providing a better understanding of motor and behavioral changes in TS patients. Of particular note is the difficulty involved in diagnosing TS and the long time the musicians discussed here suffered from the disease before it was correctly diagnosed and treatment was started.
In the cases of Mozart and Kobain we can only hypothesize that they had TS. However, the historical data provide substantial evidence for this diagnosis and allow the consequences of the disease in their lives to be identified.
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