False Alarm: Jimmy’s Story PART 2
Jimmy’s worst fears have come true; he does have the illness that he’s so skirmish about. He has Tourette’s Syndrome. He’s positive that he has inherited it from his father; after all, almost all the books and research papers he consulted claimed that Tourette’s Syndrome is inherited. Moreover, research also alleges that Tourette’s Syndrome is more commonly passed on to the genes of the boys, rather than the girls, who had parents that had the disease.
Jimmy is at his wit’s end. He couldn’t talk to anyone about his illness because he feels that no one is going to understand him; no one can relate to him because they don’t know what they he is going through. He’s all alone on this. The one person whom he could have confided to about his illness is gone—his father, Martin, passed away a f year ago due to a coronary heart disease.
The tics he’s having, according to his research, are what experts call “coprolalia”. It’s the repetitive impulse (and acting in response to that impulse) of cursing. It had been a simple impulse when he was still young, but now, it seems as if the impulses are more uncontrollable than ever. His impulses have gotten the best of him and he doesn’t know how to control it anymore.
Jimmy tried to fight the impulses. But still, the inevitable happened; his mother found out about it.
Jimmy was taken to a specialist in neurology, the same neurologist who also tried to manage Jimmy’s father’s illness for him. As it turned out, Jimmy’s impulses wre just that—impulses brought about by anxiety and stress. Simply put, the idea that Jimmy has Tourette’s Syndrome is false alarm. He’s a normal teen, after all.
Jimmy almost jumped up and down with joy.
