Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It is a QED

Q.E.D. (BBC TV series)

Q.E.D. was the name of a strand of BBC popular science documentary films which aired in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1999.-Format:...

 documentary made by the BBC

BBC

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 in 2005.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ksj56

Overview

The film follows John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane...

 (TS), and the changes in his life since the 1989 QED

QED

QED may refer to:*Q.E.D., from the Latin quod erat demonstrandum, used at the end of a definitive proof*Quantum electrodynamics, a field of physics...

 documentary

Documentary

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 John's Not Mad

John's Not Mad

John's Not Mad is a QED documentary made by the BBC in 1989. It was ranked, in a British public poll, as one of the 50 Greatest Documentaries.-Overview:...

. Another individual with TS, Greg, was filmed by his mother; his tic

Tic

A tic is a sudden, repetitive, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization involving discrete muscle groups. Tics can be invisible to the observer, such as abdominal tensing or toe crunching. Common motor and phonic tics are, respectively, eye blinking and throat clearing...

s occasionally make him collapse or appear frozen. In this film, the pair meet and see how each copes with the condition.