Adult Tourette’s syndrome is treated with medication and psychotherapy.
Adult Tourette’s syndrome is a rare form of dystonia, in which the patient experiences rapid contraction movements of single or multiple muscles, fixed in one place or wandering, which can cause major disturbances in work life.
The main treatment is medication, such as taking medications such as sulpiride, haloperidol, and clonazepam for treatment. Patients with comorbid depression also need to take antidepressants such as paroxetine and sertraline.
Tourette’s syndrome patients are prone to low self-esteem, more and more introverted personality, fear of contact with others, and often manifested as anxiety, emotional ups and downs, depressive tendencies, etc. Psychological guidance and cognitive therapy can be used to reduce the sense of inferiority, to help the patient into a normal life track.
Each patient’s specific situation is different, the treatment method is also different, or to the hospital, by the doctor to the patient’s specific condition, design a reasonable treatment program.
Drugs need to be taken under the guidance of a physician, do not blindly take on their own.