How to Calm or Suppress Tics?

I find if its a motor tic moving that muscle around can help. For vocal tics humming or speaking is sometimes helpful. Some tics are caused by a dopamine deficiency in this brain, this means doing things that make you happy, exercise, video games etc can help. Huberman Labs podcast has a great episode on dopamine that has some other tips. I hope this helps! Also, remember that tics are not your fault and you have no need to apologize for them.

Some tics unfortunatky cannot be surpressed, it depends on how seveir they are, but to help them id recomend everything you do that makes you the calmest, I personally recomend keeping a hold of your breathing and trying not to think about them because I've found personally for me, the more I focus/hyper focus on them the more they happen. Try bringing a fidget or comfort item to have with you and try to focus on other topics/activities other than your tics, if you have someone that can engage in a convo with you, that can help to! I hope you find something that works, everyone is diffrent