Do you have a tremor, tick, or twitch?

Do you have a tremor, tick, or twitch?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 84.1%
  • No

    Votes: 7 15.9%

  • Total voters
    44
Do you have a tremor, tick, or twitch? Neurological soft-signs are muscle control problems which indicate minor brain dysfunction and are associated with anxiety disorders.
 
Yea if you have extreme sleep deprivation that's probably a possible cause. But stress and caffeen set off motor control problems in people with neurological dysfunction.
 

Aiyieeeee

Well-known member
I did not know this. I've always had this thing with my neck where I'll get a chill and have to snap my neck and jerk my head in a rather profound way.

Of course I'm able to control this in public for the most part. I'll still get the chill but I'm able to contain the jerking of my head. I'm noticing it not happening as much now. Sometimes it happens and I don't even really take note of it afterwards because I'm so use to it.

I've just been worried that it's an onset of Parkinson's.

(I'm a hypochondriac)
 

slicknsly

Well-known member
My eye lids as well as tissue all around my eye twitch, and muscles on the side of my nostril twitch. And kinda like Aiyieee with the neck but no chill, and I just get some viscious cracks out of it multiple times throughout the day, prolly from being tense though.... I drink no caffine; dont think its good for people.
 

evie

Active member
I have a very slight tremor in my hands, it's a side effect of SSRIs and I'm taking Zoloft.
 

Hellhound

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Not too often, but yes. But I don't have enough sleep, I'm stressed as heck and drink a lot of coffee, maybe that's the cause?
 

P+G

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In some situations I freeze and my neck goes really stiff. My head can start to shake or at least feel like it's shaking. I'm extremely self conscious about it. My hands shake too especially when I'm eating in a restaurant but I'm more worried about the head shaking problem. On the interent it's called essential tremor.
 

Remus

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Staff member
I had constant eye twitch when I had my breakdown bout 10 years back

nothing now though
 

Exposure

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Its funny , thats how my social anxiety started , if i ever wrote a book about my anxiety , id call it , "it started with a twitch" lol . i was heavy into ecstacy use and staying out all night and one day after a night like this i had to go into work and i got a really noticable twitch under my eye and every time i looked at someone , it would jump , and i dont mean a small twitch , i mean a big big one , and i worked on a deli counter and it was pure hell , i didnt know what was happening to me , then the twitch stopped but i couldnt look anyone in the eye , ive also had neck or shoulder twitches :mad:
 

Jake123

Banned
Disclaimer: Don't believe this I'm Negative Nancy

It's just proof that we have irreversible damage. Something is broken. That's what causes the neurological crap. Can't fix it. We're doomed...

Disclaimer: Don't believe this I'm Negative Nancy
 
In some situations I freeze and my neck goes really stiff. My head can start to shake or at least feel like it's shaking. I'm extremely self conscious about it. My hands shake too especially when I'm eating in a restaurant but I'm more worried about the head shaking problem. On the interent it's called essential tremor.

Yea thats what I have. Its a soft-sign.
 
So as I suspected and as the literature says, people with anxiety disorders generaly display neurological soft-signs (motor control problems).

I hope this assauges any doubts that the underlying problem with anxiety disorders is neurological disfunction. Specificaly problems in the cingulate and amygdala which control thought transition and anxiety.
 

dooby-duck

Well-known member
Yes, i've got loads and have had them for 20 odd years, since I was a kid. Reading up on it recently I'm nearly certain it is tourettes. Tourettes is found along with OCD, ADD, ADHD and anxiety disorders.

My main one is a head tic, but at the moment I'm driving myself mad clicking my ears. Over the years I've had one like a yawn, a face stretching one and blinking and winking ones. The worst one I ever had was a breathing one.

On the phonic side mine are mainly throat noises like clicking and croaking, but I also have some sniffing and coughing / throat clearing ones.
 

EgoZero

Well-known member
Yeah I might get shaking hands, or neck when I'm nervous or facial twitching. All this shit sucks soo much. :(
 

Aiyieeeee

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Yes, i've got loads and have had them for 20 odd years, since I was a kid. Reading up on it recently I'm nearly certain it is tourettes. Tourettes is found along with OCD, ADD, ADHD and anxiety disorders.

My main one is a head tic, but at the moment I'm driving myself mad clicking my ears. Over the years I've had one like a yawn, a face stretching one and blinking and winking ones. The worst one I ever had was a breathing one.

On the phonic side mine are mainly throat noises like clicking and croaking, but I also have some sniffing and coughing / throat clearing ones.

Hmmmm.....that brings something else to mind. I also have this ear thing where I continuously pop my right ear all day. It's a habit I've been hoping to break for years now.

It started when I was young. I thought it was an ear infection and went on the regimen only to find out years later what popping your ears was and that it wasn't an infection at all. I just always feel it's stuffed and I must pop it all the time. It involves opening my mouth and moving my jaw in a half circular motion from the left and down and back up to the right.

And when I wore my glasses I'd do this face thing where I'd scrunch up the right side and now I'm just becoming aware of this squinting thing that I do with my right eye. I have to remind myself to unclench it.

People have told me, "Why are you looking at me like I don't belong here?".

Haha. Now I know what they meant. I had no idea.
 
sometimes my chest, opposite side of my heart, twitches. usually when i'm trying to sleep, because that's when i notice it the most, probably. last night was odd, i keep waking up every friggin thirty seconds, thinking i couldn't breathe. very strange. it was probably just because i always think i'm going to stop breathing while i sleep and now that i've scared myself so much by it, even my unconscious self is freaking out about it. lmao.
but my eye has been twitching constantly and yesterday i couldn't stop shaking for the life of me. tremors, i believe. pretty odd.
 
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