Somebody asked me on a TS forum earlier today if Mozart helped with my TS and here’s my answer and a bit of research I’ve done, well not really research just what I’ve noticed about myself and my TS. So as I can’t sleep (Aripiprazole?) and I’m taking the advice of my habit reversal training therapist and have got out of bed and done something – I’ve doodled a diagram (see photo). You probably cant see it very well so I’ll have to explain it to the right is music that makes my tics or mood worse (I really shouldn’t have been listening to Mozart’s Requiem earlier I should have been listening to some drum’n’bass, a friend had posted some music on Facebook that was a perfect tic reducer. (Photek) youtube.com/watch?v=ImfN7F4... Thinking about it, it isn’t that far removed from some of the other music that I’ve mentioned that helps to reduce tics such as Steve Reich’s “18 Musicians”, Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports”, John Cage “Music for Prepared Piano” and The Orb “UFORB” and throw in a bit of Tangerine Dream for good measure. However breaking this mold, yet just as effective is The Flight Of The Conchords (?????!!!) Kiwi comedians???? Definitely makes me smile on the train, plus I also secretly fancy Bret youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBy... .
If you look at the other end of the diagram you’ll see what makes me tic, sorry Ben although you’re a fantastic pianist YOU MAKE ME TIC! youtube.com/watch?v=oqlRors... a great song for anyone who was bullied at school! Most metal makes me tic too, my partner was listening to Iron Maiden earlier….tic..tic..tic. Ben Folds isn’t going to help me sleep so back to Photek. Night night xx
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I put some co-ordinates for youtube links up but all I got was a blank screen saying: video not available
I usually have to post, check, then edit Youtube links because I often make errors witrh 0 AND O and I (CAPITAL i and I (small L) and just general mistakes with capitals and non-caps but, it seems, HU doesn't give us that option to edit such links
I love that UFORB album especially the track where the dog barks very echoey in the background
That bit shook me a little when I first heard it as it took me back to the bad old days when, to get away from the misery that were my excessive tics, I immersed myself in a haze of stuff I probably would have been better not taking
I'll dig that CD out tonight and play it as not heard it for yonks - probably because that barking dog still freaks me out a bit
The composer got a really bad press in the history books as being pro-hitler but, in actuall fact he just played it clever and composed a picture of a hell on earth that the Furher quite rightly misinterpreted it as the power of the Nazis but in actual fact Orff was taking the piss but people didn't see it until after his death
Compose or get gassed - I know what I would have chosen!
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Tourettes not just a tic disorder
Totally fed up.