Posted by cole on November 6, 2000, at 12:14:33
I have a question about Tourette's and rage. My SO (who has Tourettes, + some obsessions) periodically gets extremely angry with me. 99.9% of the time he is the greatest, most loving guy ever. We are good at compromising, and don't usually have big arguments. Every so often he gets angry and argues and will not de-escalate, he verbally attacks me during this time. We've realized that if this is over the phone I need to hang up, in person I try to "hang up" as best as I can. He says he usually has trouble when he thinks he has hurt my feelings, this confuses him, then he tries to argue to make things "right". I get confused while it's happening, because he is really good at making me feel like everything is my fault. Every time, within about an hour he snaps out of it and feels really bad. He will sit there and mull over the attack all throughout the next day, when I'm beyond worrying about it anymore. He says he feels nothing when he is in the middle of one of these attacks.
Have any of you dealt with similar feelings? How can we prevent this from happening? Are there any meds that are fairly low key in terms of side effects that might work? He said he's been feeling like the OCD is more noticeable lately as well. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cole
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