With empathy, compassion, and practical tools, a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating, distracting, or dangerous We all know What it feels like to be irritated by Loud music, accosted by lights that are too bright, or overwhelmed by a World that moves too quickly.
Now, with Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight , they have a compassionate spokesperson and a solution-oriented book of advice..
These Sensory Defensive sufferers live out their lives stressed and unhappy, never knowing why or What they can do about it.
However, the disorder has generally been unidentified in adults who think they are either overstimulated, stressed, weird, or crazy.
Until now, the treatment for Sensory defensiveness has been successfully implemented in Learning Disabled children in whom defensiveness tends to be extreme.
Heller provides tools and therapies for alleviating and, in some cases, even eliminating defensiveness altogether.
In addition to heightening public awareness of this prevalent issue, Dr.
Heller is the ideal person to tell the World about this problem that will only increase as technology and processed environments take over our lives.
Bringing both personal and professional perspectives, Dr. is not only a trained psychologist, she is Sensory Defensive herself.
Sharon Heller, Ph.
D.
But millions of people suffer from Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD), a common affliction in which people react to harmless stimuli not just as a distracting hindrance, but a potentially dangerous threat.
With empathy, compassion, and practical tools, a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating, distracting, or dangerous We all know What it feels like to be irritated by Loud music, accosted by lights that are too bright, or overwhelmed by a World that moves too quickly