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...Staff writer Nathan J. Heller can be reached at heller@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Nathan J. Heller can be reached at heller@fas.harvard.edu...
...developmental psychologist Sharon Heller serious about sensory defensive (SD) disorder [HEALTH, Nov. 25]? She postulates that a person who finds tickling clothes tags irritating, blinking icons on a computer screen distracting and car alarms disturbing is suffering from this so-called condition. With all due respect, I advise her to get out of the house more often. For thousands of years, humans have naturally developed both positive and negative responses to varied stimuli. I hope Heller will revisit her theory and relabel this disorder as a perfectly normal (PN) condition. Mike Randall Oakville...
...patient. There’s a Christmas story buried in this column, albeit a warped and disturbing and wholly abstract one—a postmodern sketch that differs a fair amount from Frosty, Rudolph and other, more familiar tales. This one involves lawsuits, a beating and Joseph Heller. And Harvard football...
There is no doubt that people with such trip-wired temperaments suffer real pain and could use real relief. Identifying these folks may shed light on their true disorder--whatever it may be--helping doctors prescribe better treatments. "If Heller is bringing attention to this problem," says R. Reid Wilson, a clinical psychologist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, "that's a real contribution." It may not make the textbooks, but it could make a difference. --By Jeffrey Kluger