7-year-old boy has been tics for more than ten years. He mainly speaks and stomps his feet. He has been taking Chinese medicine and is unwilling to communicate with his parents. He has a bad temper and is obsessed with his mobile phone. What should he do?
Many parents think that children's tics are not a problem, and they will be fine when they grow up. But in fact, after adolescence, some of the children's tics will become more complicated, which may be combined with bipolar, depression, anxiety and other problems. If some tics are serious, they will also have self-harm behavior. This situation is very dangerous.
If the child is young and has early tic symptoms, psychological intervention can be carried out. When the child reaches puberty, the tic symptoms will become complicated. Parents need to consider taking their children to the hospital for treatment to see if drug intervention is needed.
Early detection and early intervention are the best way to deal with it. avoids children's normal study and life and interpersonal communication due to behavioral reasons.
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A series of manifestations of tics
Twitches are classified into different names according to different characteristics. is divided into sports tics and vocal tics according to different tic positions. Sports twitches are twitches on the body, which occur on the face, shoulders, neck, body trunks and limbs; vocal twitches are twitches on language and sound. The two different types also have a degree of severity:
Sporty twitching simple type , which has the following symptoms: frequent blinking, tilting eyes, frowning, opening your mouth, sticking your tongue, pouting your mouth, crooking your mouth, nodding, shaking your head, turning your head, rubbing your hands, picking your fingers, turning your wrists, kicking your legs, shaking your legs, twisting your waist, etc.
sports twitching complex types, has the following symptoms: winking, shaking your head, making a "ghost face", constantly shaking your hands, shaking your arms, punching yourself with your fists, jumping in place, squatting up repeatedly, kneeling repeatedly, stomping your feet, tidying your hair, walking around, often retreating, etc.
vocal type ticking is simple. has the following symptoms: Due to the muscle twitching of respiratory muscles, throat, mouth and nose, it will cause uncontrollable sounds from the mouth, such as screaming, shouting, clearing throat, humming, grunting, spitting, whistling, sucking, and bird crying.
vocal type complex type, has the following symptoms: only repeat a simple word or word when speaking, repeat the same sentence, repeatedly imitate the phrase or whole sentence that others say, suddenly change the volume or start screaming, swear words or scold others for no reason, etc.
Although a single repeated twitching movement generally will not affect the child's daily life, such as not affecting the child's meal because of grin or blinking, you cannot let it go because of the impact on life. Because although these movements do not affect the child's life, they will affect the child's emotions. The child is likely to be hurt by the incomprehension of the people around him, causing various emotional problems, and in serious cases, it may even cause depression, anxiety and other psychological problems.
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tics will be accompanied by
Attention, reading, Learning disability ?
The reading, writing problems and attention problems of children with tics are often accompanied by them. We usually have a term called "co-disease" , which means co-diseases when hyperactivity problems and tics problems. Then this co-disease will make the child's tics become obvious when he is under stress. After the tics are relieved, the child's attention and learning difficulties will appear.Of course, it is possible that some children have hyperactivity, and some tics develop based on attention deficits. Therefore, if the child twitches better, don’t take it lightly. You still need to continue to pay attention to from the aspects of the child’s hyperactivity, attention deficits, learning disabilities, etc., to help the child overcome and adjust.
In addition, parents who twitch children should try to avoid excessive reminding or stopping their children in their daily attention to education, because this intervention will actually strengthen the child's sensitivity to their own twitches, and thus want to control their behavior more. Once the idea of correcting and suppressing is too strong, they will subconsciously pay more attention to their own behavior, just like when we emphasize "don't think about green apples", the more green apples will look like in our minds. Therefore, Avoiding excessive attention to twitching behavior is actually a way to alleviate twitching .
In recent years, surveys have found that the occurrence of tics has a lot to do with the surrounding bad environment. Adverse events in the family, such as divorce of parents, sudden death of relatives, frequent quarrels between parents, and low intimacy between family members, will cause the child to be insecure for a long time, and the brain nerves are always in a highly vigilant state, which will induce tics behaviors. In addition, bad family environment will also cause children to distrust in close relationships, which will lead to children's fear of interpersonal communication. In the long run, the child's heart will become more and more closed, and the possibility of depression increases. Therefore, parents who tic children should try to create a harmonious and intimate family atmosphere as much as possible to help children gain a full sense of security .
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How to intervene in tics?
Yang Yang is a 15-year-old child who has been diagnosed with tics for many years. Recently, he adjusted the medication and his mood has improved a lot. However, the symptoms of tics are still relatively obvious. He still frequently sucks his stomach, makes a sound, and when he is sitting, his body twists and turns...
Communicate once before, and the child is a little inferior now and will tell his mother that he will deliberately control himself at school, for fear that others will find out, and that the classmates around him will laugh at him, so he took a break from school for a while.
As a parent, the child will definitely feel uncomfortable when he is sick, but parents need to first accept a series of small movements from the heart. In fact, these are not bad habits, but some small movements that the child cannot control, just like some of his habits. Therefore, the first thing parents should care about is whether the child’s movements are uncomfortable. If the child does not care much and does not affect the child’s mood, Parents must first overcome this level by themselves. This is just a manifestation. After slowly accepting, the child will gradually get better!
At the beginning, don’t rush to let the child overcome the twitch. The more he restrains it, the harder it will be, and the more powerful it will be. Twitching and emotions are like the two ends of a balance. If you press this end, the other end will rise. That is to say, if you use medicine to suppress the child's twitching and his emotions will be more prone to irritability. Therefore, parents should first chat with their children more on the basis of acceptance, distract their children's attention, and then find professional institutions to conduct emotional intelligence training and conduct comprehensive intervention.
If your child is diagnosed with tics and is in his third year of high school, you should pay more attention. Children in the third year of high school have a lot of pressure and have not been relieved, which means that the child has always been in a relatively depressed state of emotions and may be anxious inside. Therefore, in addition to medical intervention, we should also help adjust the child's status from a psychological perspective, especially alleviating the pressure on children's exams.For example, walking on two legs, medical intervention is to treat a series of prominent problems in the child on the surface to relieve the child’s problems. Then psychological intervention takes a little longer to improve the child’s ability to self-regulate, especially in self-confidence. To adjust the child to a relatively good state, it is more beneficial to the child’s adjustment in tics.
For the treatment of tics, drug treatment combined with psychological treatment is an indispensable and best companion. Only can treat through the medical-psychological-social support system to produce the best treatment effect faster. In fact, under the control of drug treatment or other medical means, children should also be provided with psychological counseling and help, and social forces should be encouraged at the same time to understand and care for such children. Only by cooperation between the three parties can the tics achieve the most ideal recovery.
In addition, for children with tics, should try to avoid trauma caused by social events during the growth process, such as trauma from within the family, parental quarrels, domestic violence, etc. This type of trauma will deeply hurt the hearts of the child and leave an indelible shadow on the patient, thus leading to the child's distrust of interpersonal relationships, insecurity and other problems. Therefore, during the growth process of tics, parents can try to create a harmonious and loving family environment to avoid increasing the child's childhood trauma.
The treatment of tic disorder is a long and slow process. It is an extremely test of patience for both the tic child itself and the parents. It is no exaggeration to say that almost every parent who tics the child has experienced emotional collapse and has thought of giving up more than once. In this regard, it is recommended that parents who twitch their children and their children should provide necessary psychological counseling and group counseling at the same time to help their children while providing more comfort to parents.
