Adults afflicted with facial tics face two major challenges: how to manage their affliction and gain some control over their tic attacks, and how to handle what can be overwhelming difficulties that take a great toll on their self-image and social standing.

Managing the facial tics can prove to be very physically exhausting, One becomes always on guard to be able to discern the signs of an oncoming tic attack, always observing what triggers the attacks and avoiding them. The search and experimentation to arrive at an even more effective method that will suppress or eliminate the tic attack is never ending. One is also on the look out for new discoveries that control or make facial tics disappear for good.

Self-worth issues come to fore in each episode of a facial tic attack. Every encounter can bring about humiliation and embarrassment. These adults become increasingly withdrawn as they start to feel more and more like outcasts, not befitting any social group. Indeed, an emotionally draining experience!

Adults can access a variety of modalities that may help alleviate or eliminate facial tics. Medications, like sedatives, can be had but not without negative side effects. Counseling and stress management sessions can help in dissipating stressors and in dealing with the social pressures that one gets subjected to,

Other alternative therapies like energy healing, neuro linguistic programming, hypnosis and diet supplementation are also available but with no guarantees of lasting or permanent effect.

Relief from the facial tic and its attendant stress and anxiety conditions, whether just temporary or of a more permanent nature, can greatly affect the person's life in wondrous ways. Slowly, social interaction becomes a most welcome change after being a outcast and a loner, Self-perception improves and the feeling of self-worth starts filling the void resulting from a long struggle through the emotional pain of societal rejection. Relief brings about a rebirth and an emotional healing.

The lack of a definitive cure to facial tips stems from the fact that studies have not really found its real causes. Occurrence has been attributed to be of genetic origin, stress-induced, a neurological condition and the like, but none has been conclusive. Are tics conditions by themselves or are they just symptoms of other disorders like hyperactivity, ADHD, bipolar or nervous condition? Until such time that the real cause or causes are pinpointed can a more appropriate and effective cure be found.