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Hi, I have been following this forum for a long time, but never posted anything. I have health problem and I just hope that someone could give me a good advice, since the most of you seem to be very familiar with the symptoms that I have been experiencing. My story start when I was 24. That was in 1996 (I am 40 now). I know this forum is mostly for kids, but by reading this I found a lot of similarity with me. So, at that age, 16 years ago, almost out of sudden, I got tics, OCD, ADD, anxiety, huge irritability and depression. That all happened in the matter of 1-2 months, without any obvious reason. I had some stressful events at the time, but I had it before that and I never ended up with all of that. Somehow, I have saved emails from that time, and I can see that I complained to my girlfriend at that time that I have huge cold and I have to see a doctor (and I know I usually see doctor only if I MUST). So, my guess would I had a big cold 16 years ago when all of this started. Since then, I have never been able to recover. I kind of recall having facial tics when I was 7 or 8 years old, but that lasted only a few months and then disappeared until I was 24. At that time I was living in Europe, and in 2000 I moved to Canada, where I live now. Of course, I went to doctor here and I was able to get those super heavy drugs, and I don't have to explain how much they helped me. Then, I turned to alternative medicine. I did gluten and casein free diet, no luck. I took literally all possible supplements for this kind of issue, again same outcome. I have tried vitamins, minerals, amino acids, some herbs, and really nothing helped me at all. I am now in a place of confusion and pain. I even ended up with many issues in my private life, and I really believe that my behavior is largely influenced by these mental conditions. Expectations are very high today, and it is not really easy to fight all of this and have a normal life. How to explain to someone that you need to spend half of your day fighting all of this, since all of those symptoms became part of me now. So, my point would be, is there a chance that this could be PANDA or something similar to that? I am really not sure how much is all of this possible to happen to adults, but sudden onset of all of my symptoms tells me differently. It even all started after a huge cold. I hope someone can tell me a bit more about that, and if there is any way to test that. Thanks, Alex ..