OCD and tics

I've read a couple of posts from OCD forumers here mentioning that they experience tics as well as obsessive compulsive behavior. I've also read in a psychological journal that tics can be related to OCD. It was something like some people with OCD, who don't go on meds can develop tics when their OCD gets more severe. I'm not sure if I remember it 100% correctly though. Furthermore, it was a long time ago so there might be more recent research that disproves that fact.

In any case I'd like to know who here experiences tics and think that it's related to their OCD?

Thanks in advance for answering.

I probably have mild OCD. I have weird tics.

I have a really hard time sitting still because I feel like I must be either tapping on something, or at the least, moving any part of my body repeatedly. Especially with my legs, you know how you shake your leg when you sit, I have to do that non stop, with both legs. I act as if there's a time bomb next to me. If I do stop, I will make nonsensical repetitions with another body part, even blinking.

I'm a nut, I know.

Oh, but to answer your question; no, I'm not sure if it's OCD, but it might be.

I have read symptoms for OCD and tics are included. Like having the need to step on the cracks in sidewalks an equal amount of times with the left and right legs. haha I used to do that.

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i am constantly moving my fingers/hands. cannot keep them still. if i do then i start to itch, literally, and i have to scratch somewhere, usually around my face. i never realized my nervous ticks until i smoked weed and became concious of how much i cannot sit still. it is not just nervous leg shaking. fortunately my face doesn't twitch and i don't have wierd blinks that would really suck.

My son is high anxiety and constantly tics. He rolls and blinks his eyes, sniffs, clears his throat, says "mmmmmmm" and he use to do this weird mouth movement. He is now in high school and has been made fun of so now he just replaces one tic with another. I took him to the Dr. for his anxiety/OCD as I suffer from it too, but he refused to talk to the doctor making it impossible for a DX.

I cannot sit still at all. Something is always moving, I always have to be moving in some way or another, and I change positions constantly. If I even try to sit still I will just start twitching, which probably looks even weirder than moving all the time.

I don't get tics, and I have OCD.

Psychedelicious said:

I cannot sit still at all. Something is always moving, I always have to be moving in some way or another, and I change positions constantly. If I even try to sit still I will just start twitching, which probably looks even weirder than moving all the time.

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Yup, yup, and yup.

Same here.

You know the Buddhists say that to calm yourself, or "center yourself" the key is to take slow, deep breaths. I've found it helps out in a lot of situations. Not a cure all, but it does help control myself.

It's helped me a lot in anxious/nervous situations.

It's great to know I'm not alone.

I am the type that i cannot stop shaking my legs. If I do I HAVE to be moving some part of my body, tapping my fingers, folding papers (I fold a LOT i can't remember the last time i just 'crumbled a paper into a paper ball' even to throw things out I fold symmetrically a few times, but anyway I always have to be moving.

People have told me on many occassions to stop shaking things. In some classes I've had, they were lecture halls and all the chairs on each row were connected to one big desk and my shaking legs would shake the entire desk (I wouldn't even notice) and people would have to tell me to stop...at movie theatres, people have told me to stop shaking the seats when I dont even realize it, on so many occassions, and when I stop, it's SO HARD to not do it, I ALWAYS do it without realizing and I have to stop myself a few seconds into it when I finally realize it.

When I'm on the phone with someone, I CANNOT stop pacing in random directions and circles, when I wait for someone outside their house, it's so hard to just sit on their steps and wait for them to come out, I find myself pacing, pacing, pacing.

Thanks for the replies, guys. When I meant tics, I was thinking of facial twitches, uncontrollable blinks and the like. I don't experience those myself but I get worried that I might get them someday.

One thing that's probably considered a tic that I did was that, whenever my neck ached or made a poping/cracking noise, I had to throw my neck back and stick my chin forward.

I think I started doing it because I didn't want my neck to ache or make a noise, but since it wasn't something I was in control of, like I couldn't prevent it or anything... I did that "tic" as a reactionary act.

I became aware that it's something I'm doing often when one day, this horrible fat bitch was making fun of me in front of this popular guy in a sports car. Fatty probably thought she was cool. She was imitating the movement I was doing, like sticking her chin out like I did and told him to look at me. And he looked but when he realized I was aware of what was going on, he pretended he was looking at something else. She, however, was looking straight at me. And they were laughing.

I was really hurt by it at the time. She works at Walgreens and that's where it happened, outside of it. Later on, I thought I should have turned around and yelled at her, like calling her a fat bitch and saying "yea go ahead make fun of me, but no matter how hard you try by making fun of me, he's not going to fuck you because your big pus*y is too fat and loose" ...lol.

And when I wasn't angry anymore, I thought about going back to that walgreens the next day and looking at her in the eyes and telling her that I knew she was making fun of me and that it hurt. And then just walk away.

In the end, I didn't end up doing anything to her.

I tried to stop my tic after that day. It didn't happen right away but after a couple weeks, I did stop doing it all together. It never came back.

I'm sure that that bitch at walgreens is still fat and still acting the same way. Oh well, some things you just can't change. lol........

yes i have experianced this myself and have been wondering about it for quite some time

abcinsomniac said:

My son is high anxiety and constantly tics. He rolls and blinks his eyes, sniffs, clears his throat, says "mmmmmmm" and he use to do this weird mouth movement. He is now in high school and has been made fun of so now he just replaces one tic with another. I took him to the Dr. for his anxiety/OCD as I suffer from it too, but he refused to talk to the doctor making it impossible for a DX.

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I have all these exact tics and like your son, mine morphed as people became aware of them...I used to touch roll my eyes, constantly go to the bathroom to try to pee, then I used to pour water down all the vents in the house because it made me feel safe, then it was a high pitched sound I would make in the back of my throat over and over, and now its sniffing...they drive people crazy...and I change them as I go. Weirdly though there are times when they are worse and that is usually in high stress situations. Does your son's get worse then too? I find exercise really helps over the long-term. I am on a bad spell lately though and it really tires me out. I often have to leave school and avoid tight places with people because I know I will start sniffing. People think I am a cocaine addict. God, sometimes I wish I was just normal.

Are the tics related to Tourette's possibly? I read somewhere that 50% of the people that have Tourette's also have some form of OCD.