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How Touch Starvation and Touch Aversion Can Coexist

My body craves touch but when someone actually touches me I want to crawl out of my skin and I feel broken and contradictory.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Conflicting somatic needs reflect nervous system confusion between longing for connection and protection from harm.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body knowledge and somatic intelligence?”

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