Everyday conversations regarding Mental Health Living with Tourettes

Everyday conversations regarding Mental Health Living with Tourettes
In this series we will be exploring all aspects of mental health looking at suicide, PTSD, wellbeing, cancer, bereavement, physical and mental wellbeing, care for the carer, self preservation, relationships and any other factors around the subject.

We will look at what help is out there and what agencies you can call upon for help, where to turn too, what groups are out there, peer groups, professional help and where to find it, charities and how to seek their help and much much more.

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About Kristof Morrow

I’m a veteran, author, and award-winning journalist that’s sold more than 1200 copies of my debut book, “The Second Sun,” after going viral on TikTok in June.

Growing up, I was the third born but the first to graduate high school. I was viciously abused by my parents. They both have suffered from some form of addiction.

I taught myself to write while serving in the US Navy as a Corpsman right after high school, and after leaving, I learned a University education wasnt for me, despite winning the highest award for short fiction and poetry at two different colleges in their annual creative writing contests. 

While living in Louisiana, I was hired by a film director to help complete his script and got to work on a film set. 

I became an EMT around the age of 23, then a 911 dispatcher at 26 before earning, by audition, a job at a newspaper. At this point, I was 27 years old and won awards from two Texas Press Associations for feature writing and photography. 

I later became sober from alcohol, as my Tourette’s manifested in a way I could no longer ignore and I spent five years battling worsening symptoms and not writing a word.

Several dozen times a day, my ticks force me to slap, punch, and claw myself in the face. It makes me call myself names very loudly that I won’t write here, I say I hate myself, and I’m often laughed at in public, (however, it’s not malicious) additionally, I’ve lost almost all use of my right thumb from chronic impact injuries, as it compels me to punch hard surfaces around me. I’m currently wearing bandages and tape on two fingers, and a thumb brace from an injury resulting from just that. 

On October 16, 2021, I surrendered that fight and began writing once more. In February of this year, I published my first book!

P.S. I’ve omitted a lot, such as how many different places I’ve lived in the US, Canada, and even a story about how I learned I wasn’t a dad after raising a baby for two years.

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