Ten years ago my parents divorced. It was one of the best things my mother did, but unfortunately I blamed her for "taking away my dear father" for the next five or six years. My reaction, I believe, was nothing but a result of my father's psychical abuse even since I was a baby (he'd act violently against my mother, calling her names - later he began calling me names too, and he still does it - or act like she was his slave). I think what happened to me was something not unlike the Stockholm syndrome, because I used to deify him even though he acted like a monster. He used to give me a task of 50 math problems/week, alongside the work I had to do for school, in order to take me to his place during weekends. He then started calling names and act violently against me too - I remember he beat the hell outta me in the 7th grade because I was too frightened to answer him "what's with the 2 from the H2O".

To the subject now. Ever since they separated, I've been having tics. It all started with head shaking. Then, eye blinking, then both, then verbal tics, damn they were so many I lost track. Right now I'm having a complex one: I close my eyes, shake my head and then do both simultaneous. And of course the verbal ones persist. Is it because of the trauma? Is there anything I can do to stop them? I had short periods when I won't do any of them, but stress seemed to bring it all back.