Nebyou Belay is a psychiatrist based in Rhode Island.
In the spring of 2019, something unusual began happening at the Tourette’s syndrome clinic at Hannover Medical School in Germany. Teenagers and young adults were arriving with sudden-onset, elaborate tic-like behaviors that looked little like the syndrome psychiatrist Kirsten Müller-Vahl had spent decades treating. Unlike Tourette’s patients — whose initial tics are often very simple, such as blinking — some of these young people made complex movements. Others shouted obscenities or peculiar phrases such as “flying sharks.” Stranger still, their symptoms were sometimes remarkably similar to those of other patients.
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