Posted by Declan on November 8, 2006, at 13:28:03
In reply to Touch Aversion, posted by BR78MF74MJ06 on November 8, 2006, at 11:42:00
Hello
I'm not at all familiar with sensate focus, but when I was 17, and for a decade after, I couldn't stand being touched. (What an absolute waste. If I was 17 now....) I always felt as if it was part of some kind of plan to control me, and I would feel depersonalised and would either put up with it or not, always feeling obscurely humiliated.
Thirty years later I find no great problems.
I don't think you should think of your aversion to touch as something to be got rid of. It is certainly (IMO) a tragedy that people can end up in this situation, but your aversion to touch is trying to tell you something, and it is your task to figure out what.
Declan
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