Facial Tics - Relief At Last
Facial tics are short, repetitive, irregular spasms of the muscles of the face
. They are very varied, but the most commonly seen are facial grimacing, eye blinking, nose wrinkling, mouth twitches, squinting along with grunting and throat clearing. Such tics are usually symptomatic of neurological disorders such as Tourette syndrome. They most often happen during childhood and can disappear within some weeks, even if some can last much longer.
The causes of facial tics still are poorly understood, but a few things are thought to trigger or worsen the symptoms. Tics can be caused by some nutritional deficiencies such as a magnesium insufficiency, but they can also very often be symptoms of other diseases such as Tourette syndrome, whose causes are most likely neurological, and, to a certain extent, genetic. Anxiety and stress have also been proven to provoke and greatly aggravate the tics' frequency.
Facial tics are hard to live with particularly for a child. Schoolmates, teachers and sometimes even parents, may not understand how tough it is to hold back tics, particularly for a long time period such as for example a class. People will very often ask the child to "stop it", or may even mock him or her for having tics.
From facial grimaces to eye blinking, tics almost always feel embarrassing and inappropriate for both adults and children. It is also fatiguing when one must try to control them all the time. This obsession could make you overly self-critical and you could consequently start to lose confidence in yourself and to develop some kind of social anxiety.
It is however possible to get rid of this embarrassment and to avoid other people's uncomfortable looks. There are ways to significantly reduce, and even sometimes totally cure, facial ticks, in order to regain your peace of mind and have a completely normal life. You might never have to worry again about facial grimaces or controlling any of those annoying twitches.
Facial tics are usually left untreated or, in some acute cases or when the tics are proven to be caused by Tourette syndrome, patients may be prescribed neuroleptics which are also prescribed to treat diseases such as schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Such drugs were not designed to cure facial tics in particular and might not be efficient all the time.
Moreover, they are known to have numerous undesirable side effects both on the short and long term. Depression, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, weight gain and anxiety are only some of the numerous undesirable side effects which can be caused by these drugs. Some of them can even worsen tics over time! But there are however other ways of dealing with facial tics which are totally natural and free of undesirable side effects.
Methods which utilize (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis have been designed especially in order to treat facial tics. They can help you reduce them over time. To understand why such methods work it is important to remember that tics are not a totally physical disease and are not entirely involuntary either. They are an answer to an unconscious impulse to do the movement of the tic. This desire disagreeably increases as you try to avoid performing the movement. Those impulses also increase in both frequency and intensity if the patient is stressed or anxious or if he is placed in a particular situation.
Facial tics are a way to relieve pressure when you are anxious or are placed in a stressful environment. This unconscious association could be treated with NLP and hypnosis because they make it possible to alter the sort of behavior your unconscious triggers when you are placed in certain situations. If acute, the therapist will eliminate the facial tic by suggesting the unconscious make you move your toe instead. When the toe moves it is not visible or apparent to people around you. Hypnosis also allows you to become a lot more relaxed in general, so it is a soothing experience. It will help you get rid of both the stress and anxiety which aggravate facial tics.
Facial tics come in many different types: nose wrinkling, eye blinking, mouth twitches, squinting, grunting, facial grimacing or throat clearing. Although tics have physical causes, there are very strong psychological factors too. Anxiety and stress are doubtlessly the most important of these factors. Tics have their roots in the unconscious mind as an answer to states of stress or anxiety; with NLP and self-hypnosis you will be able to alter this association. Anxiety and stress can also be efficaciously fought in the long run with the appeasing, stress relieving techniques of hypnotherapy, which will considerably reduce the occurrence of facial tics.
by: Alan Densky
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