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Types of TS
TS can be classified into roughly three types, corresponding to three levels of severity and complexity. Attention deficit disorder (ADHD) and obsessive compulsive behaviours (OCB) often occur together with TS, and make it even harder to deal with.
This is illustrated below.
Pure Tourettes
Movement and sound tics only.
Full blown Tourettes
Paliphenomena, echophenomena, copropraxia/coprolalia, NOSI, movement and sound tics.
Tourettes plus
OCB or OCD, ADHD, depression, anxiety, SIB, sleep disorders, personality disorders, other psychopathology, conduct disorder, paliphenomena, echophenomena, copropraxia/coprolalia, NOSI, movement and sound tics.
The information is a general guide, and should be treated with caution. Tics and behaviours vary widely, and it is perfectly possible, for example, to have OCB and sleep disorders without coprolalia.
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