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I'm not necessarily advocating you go get drugged up or anything, but would any sort of medication help with that? If relaxation helps eliminate ticks what about a low dose of a sedative or anti-anxiety drug? I read some of the medications they give for tourettes but most seems like it is for treating complications of having ticks(ie prozac for social anxiety from having bad ticks) and not actually trying to prevent ticks.

What about alcohol? Do you drink and does it make things worse or relax you enough that it helps?

Thanks for answering a bunch of questions even if you don't get to mine.

Link for anyone else that was interested in the real similar character:

http://fox59.com/2015/05/06/after-56-years-on-the-run-real-life-shawshank-redemption-story-comes-to-an-end/

Edit: I think there's some confusion either with /u/broken_slinky or somewhere. The guy in my link (same guy /u/broken_slinky talked about) is not an inspiration for shawshank , at least not that I could find with a lot of searching. He's just a guy that had some similarities to the book/movie (only associated with it after his capture I believe).

If there was a real life inspiration for any part of Andy Dufresne or his escape I can't find it.

Thanks for the fast reply. If you got prescribed those things for your tourettes I'm sorry they didn't work out. Seems like you have a pretty decent handle on it though from other comments.

For what its worth a lot of people complain of nasty side effects with SSRIs and stuff. I just know some people get relief too so I wanted to ask.

I've also taken xanax and valium for brief test periods and found they did little to nothing for me but a friend who takes them can't seem to get by without them.

Had to look up jicama, some kind of potato it looks like? Related to yams?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachyrhizus_erosus

The wiki says it is high in carbohydrates which should be good for that kind of thing and its also high in potassium/vitamin C and prebiotics. Not too bad of a find if you're starving and on a high-calorie forced march.

Are they hard to eat raw though? or fairly soft?