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Originally Posted by Perna
I'd have trouble finding someone I thought would be both professional and safe. I'd kind of ease into the field, maybe doing some alternative medicine like acupuncture and then, kind of finding others in that field who I thought were all right who could recommend a masseuse.
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Perna, when I look back on the past year...I kind of did this too. Small little exposures that I was totally in control of and could withdraw from without drawing attention to myself.
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One thing I did have a lot of success with was, don't laugh, starting to pay attention when I got my hair done at the salon, when they'd wash it, allowing that to be sensual.
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I'm not laughing at this at all. I NEVER liked getting my hair cut, it is just something you have I have to do every so often. What is really weird about my anxiety is that I think its less about the physical contact and having scissors near my face and more about having some one trying to talk and get to know me and pay attention to me. Even now I tend to go to places that have a lot of stylists and I just put my name on the list and take who ever is free first. For whatever reason I would rather deal with a stranger wheeling scissors than someone asking me questions about my job or family, etc... Honestly, I think my fear of touch is more a fear of intimacy than of physical harm.