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The Internet is all a Twitter (literally) with the recent celebrity outbursts. Is this Celebrity Tourette's syndrome of a sign of the times? Are we a society of rampant narcissists and Twitter-length cognitive processors? Has the new social media environment so empowered us to speak our opinion that we think we can do it at any time with no content censor? People haven't changed, but the ability of information to travel and mutate has. It's time to understand what this means for society and for parents. Read More
Tourette's, really?
As a person who is daily affected by Tourette Syndrome. I honestly don't appreciate that you would so loosely use the term to label people, based merely on their outbursts and lack of social decency. Obviously, as you are a psychiatrist you should know the apparent symptoms and behaviors that come with a neurological disorder such as Tourette's. However, until you've sat down and personally investigated the celebrities mentioned and have taken the time to validate your liberal use of the term, I think you should leave the diagnoses to the experts in the field.
Please "Dr.," don't belittle our plight more than it already has been.
You should know better!
As a mother with of a son with Tourette's Syndrome, I strongly object to your description of celebrity outbursts as "celebrity Tourette's Syndrome." We are already dealing with so many misconceptions and misinformation about this syndrome, your insensitive, sensationalized analogy only supports other negative images of Tourette's sufferers in the media today.Maybe you could use your time and expertise to educate the misinformed public about the real facts of Tourette's, and the struggles patients face on a daily basis to overcome these negative stereotypes.
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