How Neuroplasticity Changes Your Brain
4-15-26 If you have 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, it’s easy to get discouraged. After all, no pill will make it go away. Nevertheless, by following sensorimotor interventions and mind-body techniques, like meditation […]
6 Ways to Create Sensory Haven While Driving
6-30-21 Driving in your car can be an amazing opportunity to enhance your sensory diet. Here are many ways. Auditory: Listen to the music that you need at that time to either perk you up or calm you down and sing along with it. Turn off the music and chant or listen to the sound […]
Salvador Dali: Classic Case of Sensory Processing Disorder Mimicking Craziness
6-10-24 The artist Salvador Dali is as well known for his crazy, extreme behavior as for his surreal, dream-like paintings. Was his bizarre behavior eccentric or was it supreme sensation seeking from low-responsiveness to sensation? If you understand the degree to which sensory processing drives human behavior, you will choose the latter. "Behavior" says occupational […]
Are You Uptight & Off Center? If So, Good Chance You Have Spd
2-30-21 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 is more and more in the news but still not well understood. A common misconception is that it exists largely in special needs children who are hypersensitive […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Is It Bipolar Disorder or Sensory Processing Disorder (Spd)?
4-28-22 Have you been diagnosed with bipolar disorder II, a psychiatric condition characterized by hypomania (less severe than mania) and depression without psychosis. If so, are you hypersensitive to noise, bright light, odors and light touch? Many people who suffer Bipolar II have sensory issues. Some may suffer both conditions; others may get their sensory […]
Could Your Space Related Phobias Be from Spd?
4-30-21 Do you experience any of the following? Claustrophobia Fear of flying Fear heights, enclosed spaces or wide-open vistas Fear falling, especially on uneven surfaces Dislike bending upside down or having your head backward Dislike rapid, sudden or rotating movements If so, think twice before you run to a psychiatrist to get Zoloft or Xanax. […]
Do You Compulsively Overeat? If So, You Might Have Sensory Processing Disorder (Spd)
5-10-23 Do you often overeat? Do you have floppy muscle tone & hate to exercise? Do you often feel, lazy & lethargic, even depressed? If you answer yes to these questions your over-eating may be a result of sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common condition in which you misperceive and misconstrue sensori-motor information and behave […]