Back To Black star Eddie Marsan has said there was a lack of help following his son’s diagnosis with Tourette’s syndrome. The British actor, 56, who has appeared in The World’s End (2013) and Sherlock Holmes (2009), said there is “very little help” for children who have the condition which can cause vocal and physical tics. Speaking to BBC Breakfast about his son’s diagnosis, he said: “You don’t realise it, do you? “When they first do it, because all children often have compulsive disorders, they often have things that they have to do, and you think that’s just their personality.
“But it’s when it gets to be disruptive. “And also because it’s such a misunderstood and misdiagnosed condition that there’s very little help. “People don’t realise there’s loads of kids out there who are all suffering from this, but they don’t realise it because there’s a preconceived idea that it’s swearing, or it’s lashing out.
“They don’t realise that there’s so many other forms of it. “And the mocking, and the social exclusion for children is terrible.” A post shared by Eddie Marsan (@eddiemmarsan) BBC presenter Roger Johnson said he had read that people can sometimes be diagnosed following one consultation and added there’s often no follow up.
Nodding in agreement, Marsan added: “No, there’s no follow up. I mean we were lucky because Dash (Marsan’s friend with Tourette’s) had been campaigning for years and suffering for years. “S.
