Scott Thompson Quotes

Right now, as I've gotten older, my tics sustain for five or ten years. So, I can deal with them on a daily basis; I know how it affects my body. But when you're 10 years old, and every three months a tic comes along, it's daunting because you don't know what the next one is going to look like, what it's going to feel like.

This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

I have some anger issues.

People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

As you know, I have been very open about my struggle with social anxiety.

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.'

Living with Tourette's is not easy.

I struggle with control.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.