I Have Tourette Syndrome: A Drug Rehab Didnt Help Me at All. Please Help Me?
Question by uberifrit: I have Tourette Syndrome: A drug rehab didnt help me at all. Please help me?
My teenage years were not nice at all. I know most people did not enjoy puberty but when I went to high school I started getting terrible panic attacks. My parents thought it was just a normal thing to happen but it started getting worse. I went into a deep depression and withdrew from everything. I panicked and shook like a leaf all day and night. I eventually started bunking school. I was thrown into a type of military school where there were other children who did far worse things than bunking school. However after a week I found out that I was put in the wrong place and someone high up in the medical profession got me out. After about a year, not knowing was to do, I got in touch with a doctor who diagnosed me with tourette syndrome. I was happy because I didn’t know why I shouted and swore and blinked my eyes for no reason. I was happy and went back to school. I was put on Ritalin and fluoanxol (not too sure of spelling). Anyway to cut a long story short, I am 30 now, in my second year at university, and I am still on Ritalin but with Prozac this time. However I got into the habit of taking Ritalin (10mg) in the morning and after about 2 or 3 hours, I take a sleeping tablet (zopiclone 7.5mg) to relax and then after 4 hours I take another Ritalin and after 2 hours again I take an imovane. And then I take another 2 later at night to sleep. I was put into a rehab for 3 weeks but the rehab wanted to take me off all my medicine and one day they didn’t give me any and I started get panic attacks and severe depression the next day. I would rather die than go back to a rehab. Besides I can’t afford it anymore. I have run out of options and it feels like a hopeless case. Why is this happening to me? Why cant I just take my 1 Ritalin in the morning and then the other one at about 12 pm and then 1 imovane to sleep at night? This is how I always used to to do it. Please note I don’t take the imovane to get a high – It makes me feel normal and that’s all I want.
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Answer by hemi426mopar
http://tourettesyndrome.com
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