Coprolalia sucks

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About a year ago, I started experiencing tics. It started out as simple motor ones, which started out pretty persistent but then became mild and occasional for a while. Recently, however, they seem to have taken a new form with more complex motor tics as well as complex vocal tics. One of those vocal tics may possibly be beginning to develop into coprolalia. I also have echolalia (as a tic) and this weird sniffing/breathing grunt that I do as well. The coprolalia is manifesting itself by just basically blurting out swear words or phrases that include swear words, but I sometimes say these under my breath. These tics tend to diminish when I focus on something else.

For those of you with Tourette's or a tic disorder: Have you ever experienced coprolalia? Is what I am describing familiar, or am I just having a hypochondriac moment/faking? If I am faking it, I literally have little to no control, and it feels completely involuntary, but at the same time it does sometimes go away, particularly when I don't focus on it and I feel like I can contain it somewhat. Also, what is this? I have never been diagnosed with a tic disorder, but I have received the diagnoses of OCD and autism spectrum disorder. I don't think it would end up being Tourette's, as I said it is very mild and it hasn't quite been a year since they started. Also, I know Tourette's tends to start in mid-childhood, but the tics began at 13 for me, so that is more evidence to the contrary. I don't necessarily want a diagnosis, but it would be nice to explain to people when I start calling them a motherf***er for no apparent reason.

Thanks!

This was a really interesting and sad documentary I recently watched on tourettes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p ... -tourettes


This another documentary I watched

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-i ... tes-family


I've always found some tourettes funny and while watching these two documentary I laughed a few times but also found it upsetting - it must be awful I would be dying of embarrassment 24/7

All that sounds typical of TS.

I know some websites say the tics typically begins in mid childhood, but some people also have adolescent onset. Starting any time under 18 and for more than 1 year qualifies as TS (although I think putting an age limit is kind of silly, since tics can be adult-onset too). Some people who had tics in early/mid childhood might not realise they had tics. They might’ve been brushed off as “bad habits”.

And I agree that coprolalia sucks.

I grunt whenever I'm like... slightly SLIGHTLY agitated. Like whenever the captions that are in my head make me say something in a weird key.
I curse whenever I am REALLY into talking...kinda like everyone else.
I don't really scream or grunt at everything tho.

I laugh at my own tics sometimes ! It's honestly like your brain just craps out and says or does whatever comes to mind first, some of which is really weird. The only reason why it doesn't seem like Tourette's to me now is because the tics come and go, like how they became mild and occasional for a while. For example, I haven't had bad vocal tics in a few months, which is good. But then I don't know where it fits in since they always reappear, but I have both motor and vocal tics . So it doesn't really fit into any tic category IMO.

Both motor and vocal tics = Tourette Syndrome.

I have only motor tics - they started when I was 5 - so it's just called motor tic disorder. I take haloperidol for them and that has the tics pretty much under control. Though sometimes I'll get muscle tics before I fall asleep.

I had a really horrible breathing tic about a year ago. I'd breathe in normally but I'd only breathe out bit by bit, leaving me gasping for air. Upped the haloperidol to 5mgs and that stopped the breathing tic. Thankfully.

I'm not sure what you can do, Stampy, besides see a specialist like a neurologist or psychiatrist (which is who I see) and take something written down like you have here.

I saw the title and thought of coprophagia and thought you were going to be aroused by eating poo.

Maybe the tics become more mild when you are under less stress?

When you were talking about being in the wrong marching band group, didn't you say the kids were swearing a lot? Maybe that was a trigger for you?

My coprolalia, if I actually have it, is mostly internal...it gets triggered real bad if I'm forced to listen to gangsta rap, and related genres, for more than a few minutes. I'm glad nobody else can hear it, but it still drives me nuts.