Uptight & Off Center: How Sensory Processing Disorder Throws Adults Off Balance & How to Create Stability

by Sharon Heller

Do you feel uptight and also off center - spacey, disorganized, confused, hyperactive, clumsy, impulsive, compulsive, distracted, or confusing left from right?

Do you also experience anxiety, depression, OCD or even depersonalization?

If so, you may have sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common, though relatively unknown condition in which sensory messages get scrambled in the brain and you cannot make accurate sense of or respond appropriately to your world.

"Uptight and Off Center" will help you discover the symptoms, causes and many treatments for SPD. It will teach you how to implement a sensory diet for your unique nervous system, along with mind-body interventions to get past a “nothing will work” attitude that, consciously or unconsciously keeps you caught in SPD’s lair. By implementing sensori-motor activities and mind-body interventions, you will rewire your brain to enable you to take better control over your life. Over time, this will translate into being more balanced, upbeat, productive, energetic and loving in your life.

350 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2013

Reviews

[Courtney]

This book was better than not having a book about SPD at all.

[Charlie · Rating 2 out of 5]

A disappointing book.
The first part got tantalisingly close to telling me a lot of interesting things, but I found it rather superficial and very repetitive.
The second part was very general, trying to deal with all possible circumstances, and somehow managed to deal with none as a result.

[Jodell · Rating 3 out of 5]

The gave some good insight but not what to do with SPD in real world. I can see where everyone can have some sensory processing issues. I was reading and saying to myself. My mom had that or did that. I've felt that or done that, and I think everyone can relate to some parts of the book so now I'm confused. I mean I don't think everyone has sensory processing disorder so what is it about this book that confuses me is it seems like everyone has it. I wanted to read it because my grandson was diagnosed with it.
My grandfather hated crowds and noise
My daughter had no fear in anything riding snowmobiles, motorcycles, driving fast
I hate to be touched by people who I don't know or hugged I have a fear flying
My mother was sensitive to light, and yelling or loud voices
My dog not human but human enough did not like noise of fireworks or being hugged by children

I just think everyone has their own quirks. Now you could have SPD if you have like a bunch of quirks. But hey, what is wrong with quirky people.

[Carol Last · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disperso y repetitivo pero contiene información interesante

Uptight and Off center de Sharon Heller. Trata sobre el trastorno de procesamiento sensorial.
Se me ha hecho un libro difícil de leer, descontando que está en inglés que no es mi lengua nativa, es un libro desorganizado y repetitivo. Tiene muchísimos subtemas poco desarrollados y dispersos y contiene un montón de listas con poca explicación, que van quedando en el aire. Cada vez que retomaba me costaba mucho encontrar el hilo de las páginas, por lo pensé varias veces abandonarlo debido a la falla en la cohesión y la repetición que mencioné antes. Sin embargo hay mucha información de la que sacar provecho si sigues investigando por tu cuenta. Se mencionan variadas técnicas de equilibrio sensorial y estrategias de regulación en diferentes escenarios.