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Title: Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight : What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World by Sharon Heller ISBN: 0-06-093292-9 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent source of strength and healing
Comment: Dr. Heller marvelously investigates the problem of sensory defensiveness. The question is whether some people have an excessively working nervous system? Dr. Heller answers affirmatively and provides strong solutions to this mysterious yet common problem.
A person with a nervous system that works excessively experiences a regular disturbance since his "senses are in overdrive" (page 2). The stuff involves with sensory defensiveness is one of the nine systems in the human body - the nervous system. Heller writes, "Under extremely stressful conditions and excess of the neurotransmitter glutamate kills cells, making the brain less able to inhibit sensory input" (9). That which prepares a person to have sensory defensiveness may be a head injury, physical or psychological abuse, or post-traumatic stress. Heller writes, "In most cases the brain is miswired" (11). Experts who have understood the problem of sensory defensiveness include Jean Ayers, Patricia Wilbarger and Julia Wilbarger.
The history of sensory defensiveness involves a fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen entitled "The Princess and the Pea" (1835) which tells the story of a woman who slept on many mattresses in order to not be hurt by a small green pea under the bottom mattress. A person with sensory defensiveness is analogous to a hungry person. Just as a person who avoids food will become hungry, the person who "avoids sensation" (7) will become touch hungry. Thus, Heller asks, "Have you been hugged today? Have you worked up a sweat? (11)." A sensory defensive person will have many signs: a nervous system that "springs at the slightest provocation" (11), "learned helplessness" (121), and a slumped posture "like a wet dishrag" (202). Heller's solutions to the problem of an excessive nervous system are logical and based on common sense. Heller writes, "Some part of you will feel abnormal and flawed and a deep loss for a healthy self" (159). She recommends that attention and 'grease' be applied to one's digestive system (Ch. 13), and muscular system (Ch. 8) and respiratory system (Ch. 11).
For people who genuinely suffer from sensory defensiveness, Heller offers hope and encouragement that is worth much more than the price of the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Did Sharon Heller interview me??
Comment: I truly feel as if Sharon Heller came to my house and interviewed me for her book. I could really identify with so much of what was written and I thought it explained so wonderfully to those who don't have a sensory defensive disorder what it feels like for those who do. For so many years I have known that I was somehow odd, or laughed with my friends because I knew I had a lot of rules about how I lived. Now I know there is a name for what I experience. I am very excited to try some of the ideas Ms. Heller gives on how to cope better like massage, craniosacral, and controlling my breathing.
I highly recommend this book for adults who may feel as if they are more sensitive than others to sights, sounds, textures. As a busy mom of 3 kids I read this 300+ page book in a day and a half!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover
Comment: This book is well written, comprehensive, and way overdue. If you are a person who gets gets irritated (or loses it) over stimuli that other people seem to tolerate without difficulty, or if you know such a person, then this is the book for you. While other books address the issue of sensory integration in children, this is the only book that I know of that addresses sensory defensiveness as a problem in adults. Among the many strongpoints of the book are its discussions about how sensory defensiveness can be misdiagnosed as other disorders, what it is like to live with sensory defensiveness, and how to improve the ability to cope. The only bad thing about the book is that the five-color dust jacket is a little on the busy side (although not nearly as horrible as the blinking colon signs you see on some digital clocks). Of course, you always have the option of removing the dust jacket. Thank you Dr. Heller.
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