- Est. March 2021
Monthly update: January 2026
2025 was a productive year for the website. Since it first launched in 2021 it’s been through constant revisions and daily tweaks until I found something that I wanted to stick with long-term. I always wanted to give readers the ability to contribute… but as tics, thoughts and compulsions are incredibly personal and sometimes taboo, it took me a while to figure out how to go about this.
I eventually agreed on a Cluedo (Clue) formula- as I like to call it!
But instead of it being Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Wrench, it’s clonic tics, on an airplane, involving shoulder tics. Or religious thoughts, in a church, involving reassurance compulsions.
This approach allows readers to add their own experiences, without going into too much detail about what they consist of. And because these experiences vary for everyone, this allows me to created a much more condensed list of experiences whilst still making them feel somewhat relatable.
New features
You should see a little counter with ‘logged experiences’ right above the first paragraph on this page. This shows how many people have logged Tourette or OCD via the logging system, and will automatically update.
When someone logs an experience, the live tables on each dedicated article show how and where Tourette and OCD is being experienced from individuals all over the world.
For a quick glance, I have listed them all below. The first one is where people are experiencing tics:
The below table shows where people are experiencing OCD compulsions:
The below table shows the types of tics readers are experiencing:
The below table shows the themes of OCD readers are experiencing:
The below table shows body regions readers experience tics in:
The below table shows compulsions readers experience in OCD:
I have added another feature on each article that enables you to see the readers experience as a whole, related to that article. For example, on the ‘Food venue’ article, you will see the following:
As these lists grow over time, I will expand on each of these, with a clearer picture of why readers come to the site and the areas I should focus on.
Each article has a rating system too, allowing readers to rate the difficulty of each environment they are in.
In the non-environment articles, the rating system allows you to rate how frequent symptoms are, or how intense they are on the triggers page. Please know that there’s only a Tourette triggers page currently, with an OCD one coming soon.
I’m very excited for the year ahead, to see the site develop and grow, and get to know more of you in the community.
Thank you so much for reading, and see you in the next update!
Sam