Why Your Cutting Might Be from Spd
4-10-20 Do you cut your skin until it bleeds or pull your hair until it comes out? At the same time, do you have low muscle tone that makes moving seem an effort? If you answered yes to both, cutting or hair pulling may not be psychiatric but physical—a result of sensory processing disorder. SPD […]
How Sensory Processing Disorder Throws Off Natural Rhythms
4-3-26 When we think about sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common condition in which you misperceive and misconstrue sensori-motor information and behave out of proportion to the messages coming from the environment, we tend to think about someone who jumps when someone touches their shoulder, puts their hands over their ears when a siren whizzes […]
Do You Feel a Bit Off Center?
3-5-26 When Sigmund Freud, one of the most influential geniuses of the last century, was asked what he would like to have changed in his life, he replied, ironically, “I wished I had been given a better brain.” My wish would be for a more organized nervous system. Who wouldn’t wish that! The more balanced […]
How Does Your Unique Nervous System React to Sensation
3-27-26 Recently, I spoke to Temple Grandin on the phone. She mentioned how helpful her squeeze machine was to help her calm when she was anxious. I mentioned that I had tried her famous squeeze machine when I did a week of intensive therapy at the Ayres Clinic in Torrance, California. “Did it help you?” […]
Sensory Processing Disorder (Spd) & Anxiety
2-10-20 Tammy is terrified of heights. While walking up or downstairs, taking an escalator or walking along a catwalk, she feels vertigo, loss of balance and terror. She has been diagnosed as phobic and has been put on Paxil to control her panic. The medication has helped reduce her symptoms but she still becomes unstable […]