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Originally Posted by mightaswelllive
It's weird to read your thoughts (and other people's) and realize that if someone else had asked my question I would probably respond with the same types of thoughts, but when the question/problem is my own, I am unable to rationalize it down.
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WELL YES... it is always easier to tell others how to fix or see things differently :-) If I took my own advice that I give here... I would be a wonderfully, loving, well adjusted person..what's the saying ...those who can't do can at least try and inspire others.
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Has anything helped you to push forward in working on this touch issue?
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I am being asked to expand my knowledge base at work. To do this is requiring me to take courses which involve A LOT of touch. Altough I am still not very comfortable being touched... I now know I AM capable of enduring very intense touch situations. I will also say that by engaging in these "forced" but very safe touch situations, I've been able to make some new mental connections with touch stimuli. Finally, I seem to be in contact now with a different group of people---IDK more sensory/feeling oriented vs sterile medically oriented. This has awakened the right side of my brain, which I think I really needed both professionally and personally.
So at this point engaging in intensive safe touch activities has help at least physically improve my tolerance to touch. What I want to do now is work on moving from tolerating it to possibily enjoy the benefits of it.
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Have you found that having children has been a way of reprogramming you?
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OMG yes. Having children gave me people to care about. Though my children I've realized that I do in fact have an AMG portion of brain that is functional. However, I don't think you have to HAVE kids to learn this lesson. You just have to be about them and interact with them to see how different the world is than what you always thought it was.
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...she thinks we need to test my limits to see what exactly is pushing my buttons so much with touch (ex: element of surprise, expectation, source of touch, my mood/level of awareness, situational context, etc). She said we're going to have to start trying to work with more physical exposure. (vomit)
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This is interesting... I wonder how she is going to approach this with you.