What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
NAMI Champaign has been awarded the 2022 Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Awareness and Education mini-grant!
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a real, chronic condition associated with taking certain mental health medicines (antipsychotics) and some people may experience mild, moderate or severe uncontrollable TD movements in the face, torso, limbs, and fingers or toes.1,2 Movements may appear rapid and jerky or slow and writhing.3,4 TD is unlikely to improve without treatment.
Symptoms of TD can include:
- Jerking hand and leg movements
- Neck twisting
- Difficulty swallowing
- Eye blinking and grimacing
- Lip smacking and involuntary tongue movements
TD symptoms typically occur after several years of taking antipsychotic medications, although they can emerge within just a few months. TD is also related to prolonged use of medications for nausea, and medications that treat neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease.1
References and Additional Resources: https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Treatments/Mental-Health-Medications/Tardive-Dyskinesia
Learn more about the Facts of TD : https://www.nami.org/NAMI/media/connect-nami/TD-Fact-Sheet.pdf
How Common is TD?
TD affects approximately 600,000 people in the U.S. Based on a study, about 25% of people with TD are diagnosed and 75% of those potentially living with TD have not yet been diagnosed.
Test your knowledge of Tardive Dyskinesia!
https://www.nami.org/NAMI/media/connect-nami/Test-Your-TD-Knowledge-Factsheet-2022_Advocacy.pdf
To learn more about TD, visit TalkAboutTD.com
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The information, including but not limited to, text, graphics, images and other material contained on this webpage are for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regimen, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website.
NAMI Champaign is a participant in the NAMI Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Education and Awareness Grant.
Link materials may direct you to NAMI.org and/or TalkAboutTD.com. NAMI Champaign County (IL) bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. Contact the external site for answers to questions regarding its content.
NAMI Champaign is one of 42 NAMI Affiliates and NAMI State Organizations with a $2,500 grant each to spread awareness about Tardive Dyskinesia and how it can affect individuals in their every-day lives. The National Alliance on Mental Illness has offered this grant for fiscal year 2022 focused on Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) education and awareness.
This grant opportunity is brought to affiliates nationally by one of NAMI’s corporate supporters, Neurocrine Biosciences. As a part of multiple awareness campaigns that they’ve launched (e.g. talkabouttd.com; TD Awareness Week).
NAMI Champaign has no direct obligation to the cooperate supporter.
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