Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It

Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It
Directed by	Phillipa Robinson
Presented by	Eleanor Bron (narrator)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Producer(s)	Phillipa Robinson
Running time	66 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	28 May 2009

Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It is a QED documentary made by the BBC in 2009.^[1]

Overview

The film follows John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome (TS), and the changes in his life since the 1989 QED documentary John's Not Mad. Another individual with TS, Greg, was filmed by his mother; his tics occasionally make him collapse or appear frozen. In this film, the pair meet and see how each copes with the condition.

References

↑ "BBC One - Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It". BBC. 28 May 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2012.

External links

Tourette syndrome (F95.2, 307.23)

Main	Causes and origins History Sociological and cultural aspects Treatment

Terms	Coprolalia Copropraxia Echolalia Echophenomenon Echopraxia Palilalia PANDAS Sensory phenomena Tic Tic disorder Tourettism

Physicians	Jean-Martin Charcot Donald J. Cohen Georges Gilles de la Tourette Jean Marc Gaspard Itard James F. Leckman Arthur K. Shapiro

Organizations	Tourette Association of America Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada Tourettes Action Yale Child Study Center

Media	Front of the Class I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me John's Not Mad "Le Petit Tourette" Maze Motherless Brooklyn Quit It The Tic Code Tic Talk: Living with Tourette Syndrome

Notable people	Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Howard Ahmanson Jr. Basshunter Pete Bennett Brad Cohen James Durbin Jim Eisenreich Jamie Grace Tim Howard Samuel Johnson André Malraux Dash Mihok Ruth Ojadi Tobias Picker Nick van Bloss Michael Wolff

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