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Hiccup teacher Tourette's disease
Recently, an Indian educational film "Teacher Hiccup" became popular again. In the film, Naina Mather, the protagonist, suffers from Tourette's disease since she was a child, making strange noises like hiccups, which can't be controlled. In the movie, little Martha tried to cover her mouth in class to prevent herself from making that strange noise, but when she couldn't control it, she would still be laughed at and puzzled by her classmates.
While studying, she was rejected by twelve schools. Finally, a headmaster said a very encouraging sentence: "We will treat you like other students."
This inspired Mather's dream of becoming a good teacher in the future, and she has been working hard for this dream. Although she encountered many misunderstandings and discrimination in job hunting, she always maintained a positive and optimistic attitude, persisted in her dream of being a teacher, and finally became a very excellent teacher and helped many students.
So, what exactly is Mr. Hiccup's Tourette's disease?
Tourette's syndrome, also known as Tourette's syndrome, is also known as dysphonia with multiple movements. When we talked about TIC disorder before, we mentioned that TIC disorder can be divided into several types, simple type and chronic type, and another serious one is Tourette syndrome, referred to as TS.
This disease is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder, which interferes with and damages children's psychosomatic development to varying degrees, and also damages children's cognitive function. It will have a great impact on children's academic performance to a certain extent, and the most important thing is to affect children's social adaptability.
Some children may never be cured if the intervention is not timely or appropriate. This syndrome evolved from simple convulsions. Generally speaking, children are most prone to convulsions before puberty or around five to eight years old. If the intervention is not timely, it will develop from a simple twitch of a certain part at the beginning to a vocal twitch later. This vocal cord twitch may occur one or two years after motor twitch.
The main clinical manifestations are: involuntary muscle twitching in many parts, such as blinking, pouting, squeezing nose, nodding, shaking head, shrugging head and face, etc., gradually developing to limbs and trunk; You can also swing your arm, turn around or kick one leg and twitch frequently, ten to hundreds times a day;
Some parents will have such confusion: "Why does the teacher say that children don't have too many twitch symptoms or phonation symptoms at school, but when they get home, twitch symptoms are more obvious and never stop?" This is because some children will force themselves not to have twitch symptoms or phonation symptoms during school, but when they come home from school, they will unconsciously use twitch to release their emotional and mental stress.
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What is the relationship between TS and children's own factors and family rearing patterns?
Many of the symptoms of this female teacher in the film have a great influence on people around her, especially in class. About 80% patients with Tourette's syndrome will have an early symptom before the onset of TIC symptoms, which is characterized by abnormal or indescribable uncomfortable feelings, such as limb contraction or abnormal feelings that are difficult to express. You must stretch your arms or legs to relieve it. You can relieve the tension of neck muscles by twisting your shoulders, scalding your eyes before blinking, spraying your nose with nasal congestion, clearing your throat with itching and dry throat.
Therefore, in fact, children with this symptom are very uncomfortable. The feeling of abnormal body attracts children's attention to a certain extent, and it is difficult for children to concentrate on their studies.
Why do children have Tourette's disease?
Family relations
Just like the teacher burps in the film, there is a very obvious factor-family relationship. Teachers grew up in divorced families, and fathers were too strict with their children and often criticized them. This will make the child's symptoms more serious, and to some extent, make the child too nervous to control his symptoms. Moreover, Tourette's disease has a certain neural basis.
I often tell parents that children deal with negative emotions in different ways. For example, some children will lose their temper as long as they encounter unhappy things, while children with Tourette's disease are often not good at expressing some unhappy things they encounter, are depressed and pursue perfection. Therefore, when such children are under pressure, they often suppress their negative emotions, such as anger and sadness. He used an overly repressed way to control himself from showing it. Over time, children's negative emotions can not be released reasonably, and this energy will be transformed into the nervous system and expressed through abnormal muscle movements.
Therefore, it is necessary to promptly guide children's negative emotions and promote the expression of emotions. At this point, both parents and educators should pay attention to it.
Family rearing patterns
Different children deal with negative emotions in different ways. Children with depressed emotions are more likely to release their negative emotions from the performance of the nervous system, which has a certain relationship with the neuroanatomy of the brain. In addition to personality characteristics, neuroanatomical research found that many parallel sebum-striatum-thalamus-sebum rings were formed in the anatomical parts of their brains: basal nucleus, sebum, thalamus and midbrain. If the inhibition mechanism of the loop fails, the child will feel abnormal feelings before twitching, and some impulsive behaviors will appear, including symptoms of twitching and compulsion.
On the surface, what we see is the child's TIC symptoms, but in fact, a certain part of the child's nervous system has functional failure, not organic.
Some parents may ask, "since there is something wrong with the nervous system, are we going to do some special treatment on some circuits of the brain through any surgery?"
At present, the development of neuroscience in this field has not yet reached a mature level. What we can do is to respond to the nervous system through external forces, that is, to start with the factors that cause children to have symptoms and eliminate these factors as soon as possible. At the same time, it is necessary to improve children's ability to deal with their own emotions and negative emotions, so as to respond to the nervous system and make this part of the nervous system work well.
On the other hand, the child's illness is closely related to the parenting style of the acquired family. We found that it is closely related to family changes, parents' divorce, tense parent-child relationship, beating and scolding corporal punishment, and too harsh and strict family rearing methods. This kind of family and parent-child relationship is more likely to make children have TIC symptoms, especially children who are depressed, introverted and perfectionist in emotional processing, and are more likely to have TIC disorder, that is, Tourette's syndrome.
Of course, some parents will say, "Our family has no such medical history. Why do children have such a serious situation? " In fact, there are many reasons, such as genetic factors, neuroimmune factors, environmental factors and so on. Through analysis and research, we observed that TS is also related to the mother's emotional and psychological state during pregnancy. If the mother is too nervous, emotionally unstable or very depressed during pregnancy, then the child is more likely to suffer from this disease.
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How to treat Tourette's syndrome correctly?
Tourette's syndrome is a serious tic disorder. At present, there is no particularly good treatment, but only comprehensive symptomatic treatment. Treatment measures include psychotherapy, medication, diet adjustment and environmental treatment.
As early as 1980s, foreign experts found that the improvement, control and disappearance rate of adolescent TIC symptoms was 73%, and the prognosis was relatively good. However, in the course of treatment, after the symptoms are relieved, the symptoms are easy to recur or fluctuate due to their own reasons and external environmental factors.
Some children disappear after a period of treatment before puberty, but after puberty, children will encounter a lot of academic pressure, and some children will relapse under pressure. Therefore, we emphasize that the sooner children's symptoms are treated, the better, especially those who have symptoms during kindergarten.
medicine
In terms of treatment, many parents use traditional Chinese medicine or massage acupuncture. Although these methods are widely spread among the people, there are not many Chinese medicine methods written in textbooks, and they are not the main treatment methods. Even if medication is used, it is mainly western medicine, which can quickly control symptoms. Although there are some side effects, it is necessary for children with severe symptoms.
psychotherapy
A good education is to take children over the inner wall.
We try to ignore the psychological intervention when children have seizures. Ignoring is not dislike. Instead, try to use mild distracting methods when the child has a seizure, such as handing the child a paper towel to show him the scenery outside, so that the child can relieve his mental tension before the seizure or attack, and reduce the tension, anxiety and inferiority caused by the seizure.
Then there is psychological support, which requires children to be trained in social skills and emotional management, especially parents' education and ways to improve parent-child communication.
The third mainstream way is cognitive behavioral therapy, which should change children's unreasonable cognition of themselves and others, enhance self-confidence, enhance their ability to express their emotions, manage anxiety and deal with negative emotions such as anxiety. For children above middle school, it is more suitable to teach them how to deal with severe TIC symptoms through behavior.
Through the movie "Teacher Hiccup", we learned about Tourette's disease, and also learned about the cause, age and prevention of Tourette's disease through this course. Teacher Huixinyuan still hopes that parents can pay attention to their children's mental health, because mental health can make children cope with a lot of pressure and manage their emotions well, so as to have better interpersonal relationships and better learning ability.
If you find some symptoms of your child, don't avoid them. Help children to alleviate and eliminate in time at an early stage.
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