Anxiety and Sensory Processing Disorder - Which Comes First?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2017
- Virginia Spielmann, Associate Director at STAR Institute talks about SPD and anxiety from an Occupational Therapy perspective and whether anxiety is a secondary symptom.
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I'm in tears and shaken. I think I just had 32 years of stress and anger and confusion and fear explained in an 8 minute video
GarrMatey428 same here. I’ve struggled with so many psychological and emotional problems. Have looked for answers all my life. It’s been exhausting with three kids
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I'm so sorry for what this trait has been doing to your life. Something like this that hasn't been understood by the people around you, I'm referring to your parents mainly, through your childhood and while growing up, but who knew They were probably in the dark with it, same as your teachers ...
I'm not blaming them for not (being able) to help you with what you must have been trying to get a grip on "all alone" the fear has to be terrible causing so much anxiety for you to cope with scared and alone 😱 my granddaughter 14, is suffering with this and has been since much younger 💔💕❤💔 thankfully my daughter lookS up different things and found out about the sensory issues. Has just started a Therapist 2-3 visits i hope it helps her understand herself better deal with this so she cah have happiness In her young teenage years! It's hard enough with hormonal changes going on and all this in the mix plus she's not handling this covid 19 lockdown Too well!! I'm worried.... ¯(°_o)/¯ 🙏🏼🙏🏼
#Godgivestrength
I am a 50 year old special ed teacher. I have never heard such a good description of what it must feel like to have a sensory processing disorder. Thank you so much!
I have SPD just know dont be to loud cuz it hurts our ears
You just pulled the curtain back on 50 years of confusion
I am very grateful
Why always speak about childs? We, adults Asperger have severe sensory overloads, especially the ones who don't are diagnosed
We all have a child inside...
I agree with this. I wish more awareness was spread for adults with asd, spd and adhd
The ''hellborn'' are opposition to the eshtablishement and as such dont expect any valuable help from them.
Adults are forgotten.
We have so many adult specific videos on our channel Cue View. I hope you managed to find some.
This was nice to hear. Strong pretty tired of people telling me I have PTSD when it’s my brain
Do you have pain yes it's my brain to check out TMS Dr schubiner
I wish I was as outwardly happy as everyone in your videos Star Institute; its very contagious.
When you spoke about the busses and the elevators, that really hit home. As an adult, I don’t struggle as much (or at least don’t notice as much) sensory processing issues. I had them frequently when I was younger.
I have sensory hypersensitivities, especially auditory (I hope to get evaluated for Auditory Processing Disorder, soon), and I am very thankful that the subtitles on this video kept me distracted from the frequent refocusing of the camera.
I have severe clinical social anxiety (and GAD), and that mixed with my auditory processing difficulties drives me up the wall in social situations...but I’ve never thought about whether my anxiety or my sensory hypersensitivities came first. Thanks for this insightful analysis!
ADHD + anxiety + social challenges + SPD usually ends up being undiagnosed autism. (I was not diagnosed until age 32.)
I’ve never had anyone explain sensory processing so well. Thank u. 😊
Thank you so much. Am from saudi Arabia and i was diagnosed with it last year
And i find such videos more helpful.
Any solutions if u find any soln... pls contact...
I know I suffer from anxiety disorder, but there have always been “little things” about me that people raise an eyebrow at, but nothing is ever enough for anyone to ask “does she have Autism/a sensory issue?” One example is when I’m at work and there is a birthday party happening in my class, other teachers call me a “stickler” because I refuse to let the children play with the party balloons. I can’t take the noise it makes when they pop. My family calls me weird cuz I literally leave the room if the kids are gonna “get rid” of the balloons using their feet. That just one example. I don’t understand why I can take hugs from strangers or handshakes (this forced “professional” interaction gives me a whole 10 mins of mental stress) and I can only hug or cuddle with family/SO for like a few seconds before I begging them to give me space. I wish I understood that. I’m not able to focus on people talking if there is too much background noise. I hear EVERYTHING. ALWAYS. At the SAME TIME and it’s dizzying. I constantly spaced out in school and was labeled “A day dreamer” because after a while I’d get exhausted trying to tune all of the sounds out to focus on the teachers/college professors words.
I hear you on the sound front, I'm the same. I hope you, at least, live in a peaceful environment. Good sleep, exercise, gardening and not eating processed foods all help me to be much more 'tolerant' (esp sleep). I also hear meditation helps to 'rewire' the brain and reduce arousal states. Wishing you the best.
Anxiety + social challenges + SPD usually ends up being undiagnosed autism. I was not diagnosed until age 32 and talking with other late-diagnosed autistics online has really brought emotional healing, as well as sharing practical adaptations/accommodations has changed my life. ❤
extremely relatable!
@@Ann963 I have all those and have suspected that in myself, but I'm still not sure. I think I get social cues or at least am able to intellectualize how to socialize. I guess I should get checked out, but it just costs a lot, psychological testing.
This is profound. I’ve struggled with anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders for most of my life without recourse. While I do have ADHD and PTSD, this explains so much about why traditional methods of mental health treatment have not worked very well (skills based have worked in the moment, but tools are difficult to access post therapy). The psychological impacts of not being validated or understood for 36 years are profound. Something as simple as sleeping under an appropriately weighed blanket and implementing fidgets has helped tremendously. This understanding has also led to the process of diagnosing other processing disorders that have gravely impacted my quality of life and independence :-) thank you for your work
This is me
I totally feel you on the psychological impacts of not being validated or understood. the years of me knowing something was wrong and that I needed help but no one noticing or listening to me combined with the stress of growing up gay with a super religious family actually caused my CPTSD now.
ADHD + anxiety + social challenges + SPD usually ends up being undiagnosed autism. (I was not diagnosed until age 32.)
This is why everyone should have access to neuropsychological testing. You would be surprized at how many psych patients actually have a profound underlying learning disability that does not get recognized
I needed this video. My daughter has gone under the radar, even though I voiced concerns since preschool. She is almost 16yrs in 10th grade and highschool and the shift to being responsible for herself and not the teacher, has been to much. She was never absent (any change to her schedule causes overload)
However for almost 2yrs , she's exhausted 24/7 and shuts down, goes mute and we are lucky to get her to go 3 days a week. Everything is just to much and her anxiety, her senses are off the charts, she becomes scared, confused and complains about her memory being awful. This video confirmed what I've been trying to explain to her school.
Executive functioning challenges + anxiety + social challenges + SPD usually ends up being undiagnosed autism. (I was not diagnosed until age 32.)
OMG you are sooo smart, this is first time for me to hear this analysis of behaviour in the context of SPD / Anxiety
This is me.
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This explains so much, thank you
This has just explained so much to me, thank you so much
I'm 21 and have been diagnosed as a child. But my parents, my audiologist, my doctors have never told me that my sensorial problem could cause anxiety and I've been living thinking that I depressed and suffering anxiety for another hole reason when it's really not. And in this very world wide pandemic with online classes and me having such a hard time paying atention in the teacher, because I just can't quite recognize all that he says and not having friends to ask questions about the class. I was completely lost. Thanks for explaining that it's okay all this and it does have a reasonable explanation for all that.
I am in the same boat as you. I was diagnosed as a child but all my physiatrists through the years have told me that I have BPD or that I have schizophrenia. No one has ever talked to me about my SPD and now that I am in university and doing school work online, I am having a really hard time doing basic tasks. Ligia, If you ever want to talk about the struggles or if anyone does, I would really like to have a conversation about SPD. I feel so alone right now and would love to talk to others about SPD.
@@bouieboi9959 I would really like to talk about all of this. I'm really sorry for you and anyone who has to face this kind of things. I think the universities should be more consciouness about these problema that we have to face in our every day life. And find a way to help us find our way through all of this changes. I mean, I was mostly fine studying before the pandemics, but now? I'm having to learn everything from scratch.
Excellent video. Its frustrating being diagnosed later in life and finding potent evidence of sensory overload throughout our school days. I hope future kids get more help, it just felt like I was going mad as a youth.
What a great description!
I love this segment!! Thank you for your clarity.
Thank you....
Very helpful explanation
Clear, concise and informative. Great video and thank you!
So well-spoken and informative! Thank you!
When you say approx @7:22 "You nourish the child's sensory systems and then you wait...and if the child is able to better adapt better then you know that fundamentally what is going on is not anxiety." Well,, the problem here is how do you know that from a polyvagal perspective, the child's anxiety did not orginially and significantly manifest (and the key word here is "significantly") in terms of over, under or mixed sensory responsivities across domains, granted with, in sone cases, with an underlying constitutional predisposition to some degree? After working as a developmental therapist/special educator using DIR/Floortime for the last 20 years, I am not that certain that anxiety is not the primary driving factor causing or signficantly exacerbating sensory modulation difference. It is certainly a much more intertwined mixture then many Occupational therapists in the field generally believe.
What I do know, however, is when anxieties are reduced through increased feeling of interoceptive calm or relational safety/neuroception then the affected or heightened areas of manifested sensory responsivities (e.g., visual-spatial, auditory-prosodic, tactile gestural and so forth) signficantly decreases and if you will begin to become more integrated! Moreover, paradoxically, when you noursih the sensory systems you are never doing so in an isolated or compartmentalized fashion but in a warm, reassuring and engaging fashion (i.e., increase recprocal affect regulation/co-regulation) which then significantly allows for the sympathetics to calm and become adaptively optimized for more integrated (available) engagement.
I love this , very insightful. Thank u
reminds me of the good doctor episode where they have the dance. dr shaun has a sensory overload moment
Thank you
Lately my therapist has said she thinks I have sensory processing disorder and I also have generalized anxiety disorder PTSD bipolar to borderline personality disorder major depressive disorder D ID depression dissociative identity disorder which has begun to go away if I don’t hear the voices anymore and I may have autism the information you just shared up here is really great to hear I suffer immensely from a lot of the anxiety and sensory processing problem and in July I’m getting tested professionally for autism
Do you get muscle pain symptoms to
@@tomsale5142 yes I do quite often
@@tomsale5142 additional note I am finding it very difficult to get tested for autism because of the fact that I am a late autistic diagnosable person right age in my 50s and most places will only take Medicaid for children for diagnosing and for adults there’s really nobody around it will take Medicaid and the other thing is because I am female it’s very difficult for anyone to take it seriously because I present differently than men do as far as autism
@@danyelPitmon where is your worst symptom do you have it everyday.i recommend a book by Dr Claire weekes for anxiety symptoms
Mine started as sensory integration disorder first, then manifested more into GAD when I got older. Still have sensory issues with certain things.
They definitely go hand in hand. I also have a different vestibular disorder which just makes this all much worse at times. I also have autoimmune disorders that get triggered from stress, so all the issues just compound each other.
Do you have fybromyalgia all linked
Splendid video.
I am a 50+ adult who's had Hypersensitive Sensory Processing Disorder for years. Conventional Occupational Therapy was tried but had to be discontinued due to overload & debilitation. Years' worth of counseling also did not help with this condition.
I'd give so much to find a therapy that could resolve or even considerably diminish this problem that sorely curtails even basic activities in my life. So frustrating to be limited in this way.
I think it's all about the humongous chemicals in the food here in USA. ( Most of them are banned overseas) So people eat that poison for years, during pregnancy...etc.. Then the results. Keep in mind as long as we have any condition or illness, the PHARMA gets paid and happy.
Let’s say a patient has Generalized Anxiety Disorder, can they have sensory issues caused by this or that is a source of anxiety? Because I have GAD and noises cause me a lot of distress. Even regular noises we hear each day like the washing machine or the dish washer stress me out and overload my head. I’ve only been experiencing this since the 8th grade and now I’m in 11th which makes me wonder if it’s possible to put SPD on the plate. I want to talk to my psychiatrist about it because it affects my everyday life. What is your insight on this situation? Thank you
Check if your fear paralysis is integrated. Most people live with retained primitive reflexes which must've integrated by 6 months age and don't even realise it.
Try implementing some sensory activities into your day and see if you feel better
hi, I was diagnosed with SPD back when I was in first school (somewhere between ages 4-7) but I have only been told recently, I would like to do research into my disorder and was wondering if you know any helpful sites or videos that go into more detail so as I can learn to fully understand myself 🙂
I haven’t watched yet but I’m going to say sensory first becos today I went to Kmart with my daughter and we love Kmart but she felt sick (her first sensory o/l symptom) and I started to get disoriented and agitated and dizzy when we both actually really wanted to be able to be there 😣☹️
Would love to see a very short video that simply addresses, for the general public, what SPD is. A video that does not weight the content toward the subject of children or adults, but just explains and gives several examples. Your video "what is sensory processing" does not meet the need I am talking about. I would love to see something that a sufferer could post to social media to raise awareness.
Hello, I was wondering how you would test for this as an adult. Sounds very similar to how I felt as a child.
But im not sure what that would mean for me now.
Autism spd IBS OCD CFS fybromyalgia took to 43 to find out I have Asperger's hsd because if pain the SPD is fybromyalgia
I'm a gifted labeled adult suffering sensory processing issues and constant anxiety , is there a way to live a good life ? I am constantly overwhelmed and can not focus on myself nor tasks anymore... when there is a sense of ' noise ' I can't follow and even faint....
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Can somebody please explain this in short form? I have terrible attention span, sorry!
Just speed up the video x2
Couldn't have my hair cut as child or labels now I have fybromyalgia pain very hard anxiety ocd from ,5
Hi I'm a 32 year-old male. I have all of these problems plus dystonia, nonepileptic seizures,left side paralysis.ive been on crutches for 4 years. Doctors diagnosed me with functional neurological disorder.i feel fnd is such a broad term. Could I have this aswell or is this also classed as fnd?
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First and for most you must check if fear paralysis reflex is integrated. If it's not practice simple exercises for a couple of months to integrate them. If this issue is not addressed the rest of the therapy you are talking about is just useless.
It amazes me how this simple unresolved problem is overlooked...
How can you tell if fear paralysis has been integrated or not I am curious on that one because it might help me to know for sure and what is fear paralysis I have no idea exactly so I don’t know it all