Embarrassing thoughts tourettes?

I was just wondering if any of you had problems like this, whenever I try to remember certain embarrassing moments in my life I start to call out before I actually fully remember it.
Most aren't even big embarrassing moments, they're like an awkward silence with a hairdresser and they casually enter my mind. However, before I can actually fully remember I will compulsively say something like "Cheese weasels!" Or "So how are you today x?!?" without even thinking.

I've been managing these little outbursts fine for years, making sure I don't try to remember embarrassing moments but lately it's been getting worse. Before I would not vocalise but take a deep breathe.

The memories are as far back as 10 years ago, and I'm just wondering if anybody else has had something like this as I'm imagining it's related to my social anxiety.

Hi,

I am not familiar with Tourette's too much but does this happen more when you are more stressed? If you answer 'yes', then maybe you should focus more on handling the stress, rather than trying to stop the Tourette's directly.

Kevin.

Chucky wrote:Hi,

I am not familiar with Tourette's too much but does this happen more when you are more stressed? If you answer 'yes', then maybe you should focus more on handling the stress, rather than trying to stop the Tourette's directly.

Kevin.

Hey Kevin,

Maybe tourrettes was a bad phrase to use, it`s just that's how the outbursts are. Compulsive and not prethought .

However it doesn't happen more when I'm stressed; I'm currently very care free and making headway in overcoming my anxieties. Yet it seems to be happening more.

Yes, I have this, and I think its safe to say it is tourettes. Thankfully its not so bad for me that I vocalize anything unless im by myself.
Adderall really helped with this for me. Yes, I strongly agree its related to social anxiety disorder (which I also have) probably coupled with another anxiety disorder of some kind.
I dont frequent this forum ever, I just came across it while deleting a bunch of old email. If you want to message me directly do it at http://www.addforums.com/forums/index.php .... My user name is KurtG85 on there. I would suggest signing up there if you havn't. There is a board for tourettes in there and im sure you'd get just as many people who can relate if you posted it in a regular ADD or social anxiety board on there.
Hopefully you have been trying meds because that is definetly treatable and is senseless to live with if it is very uncomfortable living with for you as I know it is.

quickquestion,

If it's not entirely to do with Tourette's, then all I can suggest is thinking about the outbursts before you actually have them. What I mean is, right now, tell yourself that next time something bad happens that you won't open your mouth and utter something. This strategy can actually work. It is one that was taught to me by my therapist.

Take care,
Kevin

Thanks Kevin, I'll try it. But I don't think it'll work for me, I'm way too cynical about methods such as that =/

I'd probably need a therapist to manage it, but I'll probably get one anyway. There's no harm in trying though, and I will.

Thanks for the help,
Thomas.

I don't have tourettes, but I've experienced this before.

I've actually done this... but I usually call out a swear or make a random facial expression... I think you're putting yourself "in the moment" of whatever negative situation and the outburst is like a reflex to the feeling of embarrasment... whether it be re-enacting the scene or retaliating against it.

I just joined this forum and found this post which is asking the same question I have wondered for many many years. I am 51yo and have been suffering from this same type of thing and have often wondered if it is tourette's or something else. I can't believe I actually found a discussion about this.

When I think of an embarrassing moment (whether it be real or imaginary) I will blurt out a swear, or perhaps a sentence like, "I love you (insert name)". I believe I do that as a means to "snap me out of" the moment so as not to feel the feelings the embarrassment caused, or causes or to just end the momentary thought before it completes.
I would say that 50% of the time I blurt out some kind of swears or a sentence with a swear in it. The other 50% I have this habit of saying "I love you (insert ex gf's name)" or some other name. I must interject at this point that I am happily married and have no interest in any past gf's. But for some reason, the one name I usually insert is an ex-gf who I was overly in love with and who did end up dumping me. Which is fine by me now because I have an awesome wife and a wonderful family. And I am not supressing any deep down desires for my ex....believe me on that. When I do this most is when I am by myself and therefore, dealing with the gazillion thoughts that race thru my mind every minute. Sometimes my mind is like a runaway train. And eventually, the thoughts come back to an embarrassing moment, or a situation I make up in my mind that would embarass me, and I blurt something out, I thought out of habit to snap me out of the moment. Sometimes I blurt something out and one of my kids or my wifes hears me and will ask me what I was saying. Most times I can cover up what I said with some kind of excuse about what I was talking about. One time I was in the bathroom and, in the middle of an embarrasing thought, I blurted out, "I hate you!". My wife happened to be walking by the bathroom at that second and heard me and she thought I was referring to her which I wasn't. So we had a big to-do about that. Of course I"m scared to death that I will blurt out my ex-gf's name and she will hear me and she'll freak. It does seem to be worse when I am really stressed. I am not nearly as stressed as I used to be probably because I have learned how to deal with it in many ways including meditation. Thank God for meditation. Best part of my day.

Anyways I'd like to know if this happens to you and if you have any techniques to control these outbursts? Thank you.

I have this, exactly how you describe it. An embarrassing thought comes up and I usually shout shut up or other things before the thought fully develops.