(01-11-2011, 01:10 AM)LynnNBoys Wrote: Good luck with finding an OT! I'm in the process (very slowly) too. The only place I know about is for kids. For now, I have an individual appointment with the psychologist who sees my SPD son. I'm hoping she can point me in the right direction, and help me out with other issues as well. Her assistant wasn't sure if it's a conflict of interest, so we're going to have just a couple of appts then decide.

SPD is very tricky that way. It can look like so many other things! I hope that word will spread about it, that it's REAL, that there's help available... I still think my 11 year old nephew has SPD issues (textbook sensory seeker), but my SIL refuses to see it. His early school years might have been much smoother if he'd had a diagnosis and help.

I was told by a previous therapist that I have OCD thoughts. I used to have "little movies" as I called them several times a day. Usually showing me worst case scenario in certain situations. Driving over a bridge, I could "see" myself losing control of the car and plunging over the side. Walking down the stairs with my (then) infant son in my arms, I could "see" myself falling to the bottom of the stairs, landing on top of my son and crushing him. All these "movies" gave me great anxiety. Luckily they rarely happen anymore.

Have you gone through the checklist on the SPD site? http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.c...klist.html Maybe you could print it out to show your doctor and/or the psychologist how you may fit SPD more than OCD.

Hope your book arrived!

I too have those little 'movies' or thoughts sometimes. How odd. o.o I used to walk with a knife to carry to someone but I'd sit there and play a scene of what happened if i tripped and stabbed myself. I've also had the bridge one, hell I just had that in my dreams last night. Often times it's a draw bridge, and someone stops just a bit too close to the line- enough to send their car plunging into the water beneath.

I also overreact and panic about a lot of weather related things. My heart starts beating really fast if a storm blows by giving us rain and wind, not even thunder or lightning. If those two come, forget it, I'm a mess.