i'm alice franklin, and have tourette's.y. presenter adrian goldberg joins us now. what do we know about tourettes? stranger, there is no known cause. it isa stranger, there is no known cause. it is a neurological condition rather than a mental health condition. i think most people would associate tourette's and with involu nta ry associate tourette's and with involuntary swearing, but research suggests that only around one in a hundred people with tourette's have that level of vocal tic. you may have other vocal tics, you make off and make inappropriate marks, but it's not all about swearing. of course, you may have these physical tics, as well. those can be very painful, research by the charity tou rette's painful, research by the charity tourette's action said that as many as eight out of ten people with tou rette's as eight out of ten people with tourette's had caused themselves pain or physical injury as a result of having to rats. it is a neurological condition, but as you can understand, it can have various invitation

i'm alice franklin, and have tourette's. that is one person's story about tourette's.nown cause of tourette's. it is a neurological condition rather than a mental health condition. i think most people would associate tourette's and with involuntary swearing, but research suggests that only around one in a hundred people with tourette's have that level of vocal tic. you may well have other vocal tics, you make cough and make inappropriate marks, but it's not all about swearing. of course, you may have these physical tics, as well. those can be very painful. research by the charity tourette's action said that as many as eight out of ten people with tourette's had caused themselves pain or physical injury as a result of having to rats. it is a neurological condition, but as you can understand, we saw in the film, it can have serious implications in terms of going for a job, in terms of your social life, and so on and so forth. it can feed into mental health disorders. as many as one in three people have considered suicide and self harm. how difficult or easy is it to diag

i'm alice franklin and i have tourette's. that is alice's story.000 people with this condition in the uk and many people, andi condition in the uk and many people, and i did not realise associated tou rette's and i did not realise associated tourette's within voluntary swearing, and in fact it only affects one in ten people. the more common for people with tourette's are the other physical movements or other sounds such as coughing and whistling at very misunderstood condition. what the survey has found is some people really are hurting themselves and ending up with injuries because of it could force —— because of it. injuries because of it could force -- because of it. this was a crew to action, an online survey the people came to it and filled in the details themselves but it found eight out of ten people with tourette's had come to some kind of physical pain or physical injury as a result of their condition and one in five had been hospitalised as a result. some people might think in voluntary swearing is quite funny, clearly is one to rest suff