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?” […]
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 […]