These videos make me feel less bad about myself. Knowing this information makes me understand why I am the way I am. Thanks for being in this space. Hearing you say it does get better is healing. ❤
My positive moment from the day: My team at work all get along so well and always make each other laugh. It’s great being a part of such a lovely team.
Today was a rainy day in London, UK 🇬🇧. I'm struggling at the moment with my so far the longest and the most difficult depressive episode. But, I decided I'm gonna push myself to get up after several very difficult days, when I was even hospitalised at one point. I saw a snail 🐌 on the pedestrians footpath. After making few steps away, I turned back and put a snail closer to grassy part, where another snail was eating some kind of berry. I remembered happier moments from my childhood when I was interviewed by the local newspapers about what I would like to be when grow up. My answer was snail-catcher. I was collecting them, giving them a fresh grass every day, and eventually I would put them somewhere in nature, to a better and safer place. I felt good in that moment, thinking that I saved that nice small snail from being crushed by someone. I am btw, new to your channel. This is my second video from you I watched. 🌹🦋〰️💝 V.
I have started seeing cuddle therapists this year. It has helped. In a way, I feel ashamed to pay to be cuddled or touched, but I don't tell anyone what I do. I see doing cuddle therapy as a form of self care.
I got touch as a child, however it would be withheld as a punishment. They'd say things like "don't come to me now, you're just trying to get out of being bad". It was treated as if I was manipulating my parents and grandparents with my need to be soothed.
Unfortunately we live in a world where the minute you tell somebody your needs they use it against you as leverage, or punish you saying you’re too needy, people tell you to just grow up and get over it, etc, etc, etc The things I have seen and experienced growing up and working with children and adults for 17 years would make a grown man vomit. Finding Pure love, compassion, empathy and trust in this current day and age, is next to winning the lottery.
Another thing with that, is that if you do have that actual safe, loving environment for growing up, you can get a sense of survivors guilt. I have tons and tons of survivors guilt because I do have that kind of thing, but I still struggle, and it becomes a weird mix of, I don't deserve this/I'm squandering it. I have to tell myself all the time that other people aren't like me, to be so mentally ill after all of this, to end up so fragile despite everything isn't _wrong_ just different. In the world we live in, it's getting harder and harder to find safety when you need it, but I hope you can find some people who will be there for you, and will help you finally feel safe
I have had that safe environment but then it got ripped right out from underneath me time and time again. Either by people who are jealous, vengeful, hateful, greedy etc etc etc. I watched the same thing happen over and over again working with children and adults, Along with some really evil demonic crap. I don’t know if this therapist is still a Christian or not I watched a lot of her videos but I would hope that she thoroughly agrees with me that Ephesians 6:12 is extremely accurate and difficult to deal with.
I encourage anyone who is discouraged by the state of the world to go out and be the change you want to see. Volunteer, help your neighbor, pick up some litter....anything that improves things just a little bit is worth the effort. And while doing good things you won't be focused on the negative aspects of life!
Wauw, the physical touch one is a great topic. I know I struggle with physical touch and I know that my parents struggle with not knowing how to touch me. I am autistic and touch feels very overwhelming to me. But also, touch felt like it was used in a way to get something done or to confirm. It is a greeting, a custom, a tease but not something that is associated with intimicy or comfort. If anything, the moment my mom gets her PTSD attacks, she completely physically withdraws. Considering she has a 'long and rich' history with SA, it makes sense. Touch just didnt feel save and/or consistant. I kinda experienced that for the first time during this year's summer course. That I had multiple PTSD attacks and the comfort of being held and being allowed to cry, and cry as long as I had to, was among the most powerful moments of healing I experienced. Just like it was to hold someone who was going through her own stuff, saying, telling her it was alright. That I understood and I was there for her. That she didnt need to fight or to explain. I just _knew_. I kneeled in front of a woman who sat in a chair, who held me tight and I just... Knew. I knew the power of her experience and I became so much stronger afterwards. And when I got my last PTSD attack, last Sunday, a girl from the group ran up to me and gave me a hug. I saw her coming, I knew it was happening and though the hug was awkward, it pulled me back to the present. Perhaps that is what I will ask for a next time that it happens. That I can physically touch someones hand and that that is enough.
Perfect timing finding this video right now. I was actually crying most of the day due to craving physical touch. I left my husband less than 2 weeks ago and I'm staying at a friend's house. Logically, I know all I have to do is ask or just walk up and steal a hug. But it makes me very uncomfortable. I'm sure it doesn't help that I was brainwashed for the past 12yrs.
my positive for the day was in my appointment with my dietician. i pushed myself to go and she was so kind and understanding. and at today one of the residents at the place i work opened the door for me. and i had a funny conversation with my colleague. life is really tough right now. but it also has these good things:)
For me touch was not withheld and there was no physical abuse. However I was emotionally punished and shamed if I didn't what physical affection with family members. My family would request that I hug or kiss them and if I didn't feel like it and said know there was just this huge dramatic reaction from all the adults and I just learned the lesson that it wasn't working because they will make me suffer one way or the other.
I know this one all to well.. fake affection on demand. In some cultures you must hug, kiss and be touched by the whole darn clan, or even by family friends, want it or not.. uncle Tony took full advantage!!! Yikes. Abusive
This brought me to tears. I feel so validated. I'm 30 years old, and I still feel awkward about physical touch, being intimate, being naked with a romantic partner, and being verbally affectionate. I crave it so much, but I'm never able to initiate anything myself, and it's also still difficult for me to even reciprocate. The one thing I am able to do is initiate cuddling, but kissing and/or initiating being intimate is basically impossible for me. Even getting undressed to just change my clothes (will take me literally years to feel comfortable doing in front of them)I hate it SO MUCH. It also sucks because I have a very, very high libido, but I'll literally suffer in silence and get se*ually frustrated if my partner doesn't initiate it and it's not fair for me to always depend on them to do it. It also makes me feel like a piece of sh*t because I feel like it makes my partner feel unwanted 😢 The only way I've ever been able to describe it is as me being incredibly shy or socially awkward. Almost all of the partners I have thought that it's a self esteem issue, but that's not it (I humbly know that I'm attractive and I know my self-worth) I try to tell them that even if I was a super model with the perfect body/face it wouldn't make a difference. I would still be extremely timid and feel uncomfortable. God, I hate it so much it's my biggest insecurity 😢
Also, the thing is I had affectionate as a child from both parents. They're both incredible, and I'm very close to them. I've also never endured any trauma as a child to cause anything like this, so I'm at a loss as to "why" I'm like this.
There was an incident with my child where they felt like they were being soothed so that their feelings were being ignored and that they were being silenced and dismissed instead of being addressed. This caused them to distrust a soothing touch for several years.
Hello! I recently rediscovered you channel and have been trying to find help in your videos. So, here is a quick backstory to the question at the end. So, I've struggle with my mental health for as long as I can remember. I didn't realize it until my 20s that my struggle was indeed mental health related, but the struggle was still there. Shortly after I started opening up about it and trying to get help, I started a tiring in and out cycle with hospital admissions. After several years of this, I was introduced to ECT. I have to say, that most likely saved my life. Hospitals visits have almost stopped and I've majorly cut down on my habits of hurting myself in different ways. During my last hospital visit, the doctor who does my ECT treatments was asking me if treatment was still working for me... to which I said yes and gave what I believed to be supporting evidence. However, things have only continued getting worse since that last visit. I'm terrified of being honest with the doctor in fear that he will stop treatment and what might happen if that is what indeed does come of my honesty. What should I do?
I have experience being sexually abused in my teenage and young adult years but on the other hand my childhood experience with touch before that was loving. So I’m thankful for that because even when touch scared me, I can tell myself that safe touch exists. So I’ve found a loving partner and I practice asking for loving touch and affection.
I was hoping that you could talk about skin disease and the devastating impact of chronic acne it has on teenager and even into adulthood. It really messed with my mental health since I was rejected and made fun of as a kid. I didn’t have much or any support back then. I fought suicidal thoughts for decades because I felt so gross and defective. Any thoughts would be welcomed. Thanks Katie 😊
I like that you put into words what goes through my mind at the chance of focusing on the good stuff. Thinking im being irresponsible, ignorant that the bad exist , shutting out, acting in a childlike way. It’s just a way of self preservation. Give yourself permission ❤
I think sometimes I’m so scared to ask for touch from others, because I feel creepy, or like they don’t want me. And. I don’t want to make them uncomfortable or like they have to. Which is hard because… ultimately I know that’s not true, but man it’s so hard to shut those voices out.
Male in my 40's. I have extreme difficulty communicating my physical needs and desires in a romantic/physically active relationship. After my own trauma, i feel unable to ask for any sort of "special treatment." I tend to find myself sruck in a very giving role. It's as if i expect to be denied or rejected. Even if it's something simple. This comment is probably a little too "nsfw" for discussion anyway. Oh well lol
When my mother got pregnant with my little sister, the adults keep on teasing me that I'll no longer be the favorite AND KID ME TOOK THAT PERSONALLY. Decades later, I still see myself as unworthy of love anymore. I reject it when it come and I get irrationally disgusted by affection and intimacy even though I wanted to feel them too.
I saw an Instagram reel yesterday about what it's like talking with someone with blue eyes. We just get lost in the depth of their eyes. You, Kati, could not be my therapist. Nothing would get done.
I used to be a big hugger but then I was sexually abused, as a child and I saw hugging, touching in anyway non sexual I see as sexual and I stopped, and after a while I developed a fear of touching people, and also developed harmful sexual intrusive thought because of the abuse and I have a fear of being hurt and also hurting other in the same way I was hurt but I crave physical touch, so much that I cry because I’m touch deprived. The only person I allowed to hug me is my best friend, but I don’t see her often because we live in different towns and very different lives. I want someone to hug me and tell me that I’m safe but I’m scared that I’ll ask and they will deny me and that will send me spiralling, but the chance of being denied is low but it’s still there.
I think if touch is repellant doesn't necessarily mean there was neglect or abuse because there are also neurodivergent conditions that lead to aversion against touch. Like, some people have sensual overexcitability and intense touch overstimulates the nervous system so they actually need only small touches no big touch.
At 51 I have not dealt with the my physical and sexual abuse that I received as a child. I was watching the movie fire proof. The opening scene is a domestic violence scene. It was very triggering for me. I didn't realize it is a trigger until that moment. But how can I deal with my past if i can't remember most of it?
Kati, for those of us who eat emotionally could the reason we do it be that we are soothed by the vagus nerve stimulation in the same way as babies are? Elaine H.
I’m the opposite. I like to be touched but don’t like to touch. I was not hugged or cuddled as a child. As an adult I enjoy being hugged by others but it’s not comfortable for me to initiate the touch or hugging of others(even with my husband of 30 years!).
I don't like people touching me, shaking hands its fine, but hugging, putting hands on shoulders or just hand on the back while speaking, cant stand that i dont like that , it makes me uncomfortable . Never been abused. My family its just not touch affectionate. Can't remember last time i hugged anyone.
Thanks for explaining where the need comes from. I don't have a history of abuse where asking for a hug would be problematic. However, there are unfortunately no loved ones in my life where it would be okay to ask them for hugs. I wish I had a partner I could ask. Any tips?
I went 9 years without a kiss. When I finally got one, didn't enjoy it. I outgrew desire for physical affection from humans. Since everyone is an avoidant or narcissist, no reason to pursue. Just my cat gives and gets affection. Everyone else can go to hell
Answer= That's a good question. Never think of it. Because I don't now how to ask for it. Because we are humans and touching and fisical contact is something innate to humans.
Concerning the question, how do people learn to love their their lives? You did not answer the question concerning people who love their lives. It was helpful your suggestion about gratitude and trying to focus on more positive. Instead of negative.
Hi Katy! I would like to ask, can two insecure people be in a relationship together? My partner’s and mine’s insecurities seem to always be the root of our reoccurring fights. I really don’t want to break up (9 months together), I know we need to fix something in our communication/attachment/expectations, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. I don’t know if we can afford couples therapy right now. Any advice would be much appreciated!
We don’t really expect it. Women are just biologically more communicative and emotional than males are through evolution (as we are the ones to carry children for 9 months. If we weren’t, we wouldn’t be designed to carry. Men would be). We tend to say yes to no because women have so much anxiety. Yes, men can also have anxiety. (Obviously) but the nervous system and amygdala are very delicate. Yes means no and no means yes, means that person has terrible anxiety and is probably afraid of the reaction of upsetting someone. Humans aren’t mind readers, we don’t expect that. Some people just tend to think with the Amygdala and not the Prefrontal Cortex lol.
After the age of 13 years, all touching ceased. There was an adjustment period. But now, I want nobody to touch me at all. If someone bumps into me, I feel like taking a shower. A disgust comes over me. It feels like a violation. I can not imagine anybody wanting this feeling of discomfort. But, I guess many do like being touched. I keep the pandemic rules going. Stay 2 meters away from me. Do not talk to me, stay away from crowds. I was not talking to anybody before the pandemic. But the 2 meter distance came after. I am not a cat. I require no petting. Stay away from me! Spread your diseases to someone else! Do not talk to me.
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 Nobody needs to be touched, especially after 13 years of age. That is something for children and small babies. No adult needs touching. I think 13 years of age was a perfect cut-off age for touching. Do you think it was too late an age? I adapted very well, regardless if it was too late an age to stop the human touching. I still adapted to being repulsed by it. Thus, no damage was done.
This girl told me a long time ago that the women at OU decided to try to make me gay, without my permission. I'm sorry. There is such a thing as the First Amendment. If someone is doing something to you that you don't like you have the right to shout about it. So, are you going to call staff and sick them on me for laying around too much? It's pretty underhanded to go behind my back. There is a lot more going on where I live than you know. I think they will leave me alone.
These videos make me feel less bad about myself. Knowing this information makes me understand why I am the way I am. Thanks for being in this space. Hearing you say it does get better is healing. ❤
My positive moment from the day: My team at work all get along so well and always make each other laugh. It’s great being a part of such a lovely team.
Today was a rainy day in London, UK 🇬🇧. I'm struggling at the moment with my so far the longest and the most difficult depressive episode. But, I decided I'm gonna push myself to get up after several very difficult days, when I was even hospitalised at one point. I saw a snail 🐌 on the pedestrians footpath. After making few steps away, I turned back and put a snail closer to grassy part, where another snail was eating some kind of berry. I remembered happier moments from my childhood when I was interviewed by the local newspapers about what I would like to be when grow up. My answer was snail-catcher. I was collecting them, giving them a fresh grass every day, and eventually I would put them somewhere in nature, to a better and safer place. I felt good in that moment, thinking that I saved that nice small snail from being crushed by someone.
I am btw, new to your channel. This is my second video from you I watched. 🌹🦋〰️💝
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I have started seeing cuddle therapists this year. It has helped. In a way, I feel ashamed to pay to be cuddled or touched, but I don't tell anyone what I do. I see doing cuddle therapy as a form of self care.
I got touch as a child, however it would be withheld as a punishment. They'd say things like "don't come to me now, you're just trying to get out of being bad". It was treated as if I was manipulating my parents and grandparents with my need to be soothed.
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I’m here too ❤
Unfortunately we live in a world where the minute you tell somebody your needs they use it against you as leverage, or punish you saying you’re too needy, people tell you to just grow up and get over it, etc, etc, etc The things I have seen and experienced growing up and working with children and adults for 17 years would make a grown man vomit. Finding Pure love, compassion, empathy and trust in this current day and age, is next to winning the lottery.
Another thing with that, is that if you do have that actual safe, loving environment for growing up, you can get a sense of survivors guilt. I have tons and tons of survivors guilt because I do have that kind of thing, but I still struggle, and it becomes a weird mix of, I don't deserve this/I'm squandering it. I have to tell myself all the time that other people aren't like me, to be so mentally ill after all of this, to end up so fragile despite everything isn't _wrong_ just different.
In the world we live in, it's getting harder and harder to find safety when you need it, but I hope you can find some people who will be there for you, and will help you finally feel safe
I have had that safe environment but then it got ripped right out from underneath me time and time again. Either by people who are jealous, vengeful, hateful, greedy etc etc etc. I watched the same thing happen over and over again working with children and adults, Along with some really evil demonic crap. I don’t know if this therapist is still a Christian or not I watched a lot of her videos but I would hope that she thoroughly agrees with me that Ephesians 6:12 is extremely accurate and difficult to deal with.
Consider my love unpure, selfish and needy. But, I love you. In a generic mammal way.
I encourage anyone who is discouraged by the state of the world to go out and be the change you want to see. Volunteer, help your neighbor, pick up some litter....anything that improves things just a little bit is worth the effort. And while doing good things you won't be focused on the negative aspects of life!
Wauw, the physical touch one is a great topic. I know I struggle with physical touch and I know that my parents struggle with not knowing how to touch me. I am autistic and touch feels very overwhelming to me. But also, touch felt like it was used in a way to get something done or to confirm. It is a greeting, a custom, a tease but not something that is associated with intimicy or comfort. If anything, the moment my mom gets her PTSD attacks, she completely physically withdraws. Considering she has a 'long and rich' history with SA, it makes sense. Touch just didnt feel save and/or consistant.
I kinda experienced that for the first time during this year's summer course. That I had multiple PTSD attacks and the comfort of being held and being allowed to cry, and cry as long as I had to, was among the most powerful moments of healing I experienced. Just like it was to hold someone who was going through her own stuff, saying, telling her it was alright. That I understood and I was there for her. That she didnt need to fight or to explain. I just _knew_. I kneeled in front of a woman who sat in a chair, who held me tight and I just... Knew. I knew the power of her experience and I became so much stronger afterwards.
And when I got my last PTSD attack, last Sunday, a girl from the group ran up to me and gave me a hug. I saw her coming, I knew it was happening and though the hug was awkward, it pulled me back to the present. Perhaps that is what I will ask for a next time that it happens. That I can physically touch someones hand and that that is enough.
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I hope you’re well, my friend. Thank you for still doing this valuable thing that helps me and so many others. 🤗✨You’re loved.
@@MrBungle900 It's my pleasure to help you and others. Take care!🤗
Perfect timing finding this video right now. I was actually crying most of the day due to craving physical touch. I left my husband less than 2 weeks ago and I'm staying at a friend's house. Logically, I know all I have to do is ask or just walk up and steal a hug. But it makes me very uncomfortable. I'm sure it doesn't help that I was brainwashed for the past 12yrs.
my positive for the day was in my appointment with my dietician. i pushed myself to go and she was so kind and understanding. and at today one of the residents at the place i work opened the door for me. and i had a funny conversation with my colleague. life is really tough right now. but it also has these good things:)
For me touch was not withheld and there was no physical abuse. However I was emotionally punished and shamed if I didn't what physical affection with family members. My family would request that I hug or kiss them and if I didn't feel like it and said know there was just this huge dramatic reaction from all the adults and I just learned the lesson that it wasn't working because they will make me suffer one way or the other.
I know this one all to well.. fake affection on demand. In some cultures you must hug, kiss and be touched by the whole darn clan, or even by family friends, want it or not.. uncle Tony took full advantage!!! Yikes. Abusive
This brought me to tears. I feel so validated. I'm 30 years old, and I still feel awkward about physical touch, being intimate, being naked with a romantic partner, and being verbally affectionate. I crave it so much, but I'm never able to initiate anything myself, and it's also still difficult for me to even reciprocate. The one thing I am able to do is initiate cuddling, but kissing and/or initiating being intimate is basically impossible for me. Even getting undressed to just change my clothes (will take me literally years to feel comfortable doing in front of them)I hate it SO MUCH. It also sucks because I have a very, very high libido, but I'll literally suffer in silence and get se*ually frustrated if my partner doesn't initiate it and it's not fair for me to always depend on them to do it. It also makes me feel like a piece of sh*t because I feel like it makes my partner feel unwanted 😢 The only way I've ever been able to describe it is as me being incredibly shy or socially awkward. Almost all of the partners I have thought that it's a self esteem issue, but that's not it (I humbly know that I'm attractive and I know my self-worth) I try to tell them that even if I was a super model with the perfect body/face it wouldn't make a difference. I would still be extremely timid and feel uncomfortable. God, I hate it so much it's my biggest insecurity 😢
Also, the thing is I had affectionate as a child from both parents. They're both incredible, and I'm very close to them. I've also never endured any trauma as a child to cause anything like this, so I'm at a loss as to "why" I'm like this.
There was an incident with my child where they felt like they were being soothed so that their feelings were being ignored and that they were being silenced and dismissed instead of being addressed. This caused them to distrust a soothing touch for several years.
Hello! I recently rediscovered you channel and have been trying to find help in your videos.
So, here is a quick backstory to the question at the end.
So, I've struggle with my mental health for as long as I can remember. I didn't realize it until my 20s that my struggle was indeed mental health related, but the struggle was still there. Shortly after I started opening up about it and trying to get help, I started a tiring in and out cycle with hospital admissions. After several years of this, I was introduced to ECT. I have to say, that most likely saved my life. Hospitals visits have almost stopped and I've majorly cut down on my habits of hurting myself in different ways.
During my last hospital visit, the doctor who does my ECT treatments was asking me if treatment was still working for me... to which I said yes and gave what I believed to be supporting evidence. However, things have only continued getting worse since that last visit. I'm terrified of being honest with the doctor in fear that he will stop treatment and what might happen if that is what indeed does come of my honesty. What should I do?
I have experience being sexually abused in my teenage and young adult years but on the other hand my childhood experience with touch before that was loving. So I’m thankful for that because even when touch scared me, I can tell myself that safe touch exists. So I’ve found a loving partner and I practice asking for loving touch and affection.
I was hoping that you could talk about skin disease and the devastating impact of chronic acne it has on teenager and even into adulthood. It really messed with my mental health since I was rejected and made fun of as a kid. I didn’t have much or any support back then. I fought suicidal thoughts for decades because I felt so gross and defective. Any thoughts would be welcomed. Thanks Katie 😊
You have a great way to keep things simple yet not minimalistic or not cover the topic well. Thank you so much.
I like that you put into words what goes through my mind at the chance of focusing on the good stuff. Thinking im being irresponsible, ignorant that the bad exist , shutting out, acting in a childlike way. It’s just a way of self preservation. Give yourself permission ❤
I think sometimes I’m so scared to ask for touch from others, because I feel creepy, or like they don’t want me. And. I don’t want to make them uncomfortable or like they have to.
Which is hard because… ultimately I know that’s not true, but man it’s so hard to shut those voices out.
❤ your channel. I didn’t/haven’t asked any questions, but these are some I must’ve asked myself, cause I got emotional while listening.
Male in my 40's. I have extreme difficulty communicating my physical needs and desires in a romantic/physically active relationship.
After my own trauma, i feel unable to ask for any sort of "special treatment." I tend to find myself sruck in a very giving role.
It's as if i expect to be denied or rejected. Even if it's something simple.
This comment is probably a little too "nsfw" for discussion anyway. Oh well lol
Thank you Kati. Your podcasts are so helpful.
This makes me cry. Because now I know why I am the way I am. And the way I am is wrong. ARGH!!
it's interesting how you talk about doing work outside of therapy because my last therapist never told me to do anything. no advice, no homework.
When my mother got pregnant with my little sister, the adults keep on teasing me that I'll no longer be the favorite AND KID ME TOOK THAT PERSONALLY. Decades later, I still see myself as unworthy of love anymore. I reject it when it come and I get irrationally disgusted by affection and intimacy even though I wanted to feel them too.
I saw an Instagram reel yesterday about what it's like talking with someone with blue eyes. We just get lost in the depth of their eyes. You, Kati, could not be my therapist. Nothing would get done.
Wish there was time stamps
Yes, a very curious question. At 66 why do I crave something I've never ever experienced?
Probably the most painful subjects I've come across on this channel.
I used to be a big hugger but then I was sexually abused, as a child and I saw hugging, touching in anyway non sexual I see as sexual and I stopped, and after a while I developed a fear of touching people, and also developed harmful sexual intrusive thought because of the abuse and I have a fear of being hurt and also hurting other in the same way I was hurt but I crave physical touch, so much that I cry because I’m touch deprived.
The only person I allowed to hug me is my best friend, but I don’t see her often because we live in different towns and very different lives.
I want someone to hug me and tell me that I’m safe but I’m scared that I’ll ask and they will deny me and that will send me spiralling, but the chance of being denied is low but it’s still there.
Thank you for your care!
when I saw this title I was shocked that someone feels the SAME WAY AS MEEEE!!!
This was interesting. How does one ask one's question?
I value your content so much, thanks ❤
I think if touch is repellant doesn't necessarily mean there was neglect or abuse because there are also neurodivergent conditions that lead to aversion against touch. Like, some people have sensual overexcitability and intense touch overstimulates the nervous system so they actually need only small touches no big touch.
At 51 I have not dealt with the my physical and sexual abuse that I received as a child. I was watching the movie fire proof. The opening scene is a domestic violence scene. It was very triggering for me. I didn't realize it is a trigger until that moment. But how can I deal with my past if i can't remember most of it?
Just curious, why have you swapped the channel you post AKA to? It's no big deal, I just didn't see or hear anything about it on the OTDM page. Thx
Kati, for those of us who eat emotionally could the reason we do it be that we are soothed by the vagus nerve stimulation in the same way as babies are? Elaine H.
I’m the opposite. I like to be touched but don’t like to touch. I was not hugged or cuddled as a child. As an adult I enjoy being hugged by others but it’s not comfortable for me to initiate the touch or hugging of others(even with my husband of 30 years!).
Good morning. Thank you for you time and energy! I hope y'all have a great day.
Physical touch? Sure. At the dentist and the barber. Oh, you mean a hug? Yeah. No.
I don't like people touching me, shaking hands its fine, but hugging, putting hands on shoulders or just hand on the back while speaking, cant stand that i dont like that , it makes me uncomfortable . Never been abused. My family its just not touch affectionate. Can't remember last time i hugged anyone.
What happened to the song at the beginning?
Thanks for explaining where the need comes from. I don't have a history of abuse where asking for a hug would be problematic. However, there are unfortunately no loved ones in my life where it would be okay to ask them for hugs. I wish I had a partner I could ask. Any tips?
No one will answer you. This is a neurotic woman's channel. At best they will give you an emoji. Men suffer in silence. Women suffer loud.
I went 9 years without a kiss. When I finally got one, didn't enjoy it. I outgrew desire for physical affection from humans. Since everyone is an avoidant or narcissist, no reason to pursue. Just my cat gives and gets affection. Everyone else can go to hell
Answer=
That's a good question.
Never think of it.
Because I don't now how to ask for it.
Because we are humans and touching and fisical contact is something innate to humans.
Concerning the question, how do people learn to love their their lives?
You did not answer the question concerning people who love their lives.
It was helpful your suggestion about gratitude and trying to focus on more positive. Instead of negative.
How could I ask you a question?
Hi Katy! I would like to ask, can two insecure people be in a relationship together? My partner’s and mine’s insecurities seem to always be the root of our reoccurring fights. I really don’t want to break up (9 months together), I know we need to fix something in our communication/attachment/expectations, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. I don’t know if we can afford couples therapy right now. Any advice would be much appreciated!
because a woman expects a man to be able to read her mind
not only that we're supposed to know when no means yes and when yes means no
that's why
This right here is the glaring elephant in the room. I can't believe she didn't address it.
We don’t really expect it. Women are just biologically more communicative and emotional than males are through evolution (as we are the ones to carry children for 9 months. If we weren’t, we wouldn’t be designed to carry. Men would be). We tend to say yes to no because women have so much anxiety. Yes, men can also have anxiety. (Obviously) but the nervous system and amygdala are very delicate. Yes means no and no means yes, means that person has terrible anxiety and is probably afraid of the reaction of upsetting someone. Humans aren’t mind readers, we don’t expect that. Some people just tend to think with the Amygdala and not the Prefrontal Cortex lol.
quite right
emotional is feminine (the heart)
logical is masculine (the mind)
I never know what to write I feel pressure to write a lot down and if I don't I have not been productive so I don't do any of it.
I was touched by an Angel once.
Pressed charges.
Easy, because it leaves you vulnerable and open to rejection. Don't need forty minutes to explain that.
You are my hero.
who do I ask.....strangers on teh street ....I don't have anyone to ask...????
Positive random thing: Horses can grow mustaches. Silly and cute.
Mandela effect for me
After the age of 13 years, all touching ceased. There was an adjustment period. But now, I want nobody to touch me at all. If someone bumps into me, I feel like taking a shower. A disgust comes over me. It feels like a violation. I can not imagine anybody wanting this feeling of discomfort. But, I guess many do like being touched. I keep the pandemic rules going. Stay 2 meters away from me. Do not talk to me, stay away from crowds. I was not talking to anybody before the pandemic. But the 2 meter distance came after. I am not a cat. I require no petting. Stay away from me! Spread your diseases to someone else! Do not talk to me.
Weird
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 Nobody needs to be touched, especially after 13 years of age. That is something for children and small babies. No adult needs touching. I think 13 years of age was a perfect cut-off age for touching. Do you think it was too late an age? I adapted very well, regardless if it was too late an age to stop the human touching. I still adapted to being repulsed by it. Thus, no damage was done.
I long to have my spouse notice me and put his arm around me.
This girl told me a long time ago that the women at OU decided to try to make me gay, without my permission. I'm sorry. There is such a thing as the First Amendment. If someone is doing something to you that you don't like you have the right to shout about it. So, are you going to call staff and sick them on me for laying around too much? It's pretty underhanded to go behind my back. There is a lot more going on where I live than you know. I think they will leave me alone.
Finally a video about something similar to what I asked. 🥺😭😭😭😭😭🥲