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Originally Posted by LydiaB
So if they're not tics, then what are they? Compulsions? I know what you guys mean by involuntary versus voluntary.
Maybe a better word is compulsion... I perform compulsions to stop something. Twist my arms, stretching my neck. To stop intrusive thoughts or voices. I feel like it makes them less. But I also can't stop the compulsions. I have no control over them... I do realize I'm doing them though. But like if I'm in public, the more I try to stop them, the worse they get. I don't have OCD.
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I think I know what you mean. I have a thing where I will breath in quick twice through my nose. I don't know I am going to do it. It just happens and I hear it. Most times it is at my therapists office when we are talking about something that causes me to get agitated. I am starting to think the two are connected. Maybe it is the way my agitated self moves forward to present. I don't know. But it is some how connected to the change in my mood. I can't prevent it from happening because I don't know it is going to happen. And I don't cause it to happen either. It just happens.