Poll Those with cptsd: are you super sensitive to touch?

[Deleted member 8714]

I've been super sensitive to touch all my life. When I first started therapy I saw a body worker and she remarked how she'd had never seen someone as sensitive to touch as me. She pressed downward on my body with very little pressure and I yelped and I just about jumped off the table.

I wonder if this is common with others who have CPTSD?

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

Same here. At times my friends have thought this was funny, because all they needed to do, is poke me unexpectedly and I would about have a heart attack. They don´t do that anymore. :stop:

 

[anonymous]

I got a massage once, NEVER AGAIN!!! Man, that was so awful. I did it as a favor for a friend, because he was studying to be a person who gives massages for a living (I could not spell the word for that!). He needed to give a certain number of them for him to graduate, and my hubby and I both did this for him. It was one of the more difficult things I have ever lived through.

Now, if I were SUPER sensitive to touch, I would not have been able to tolerate the above, to my way of thinking, so I answered "Sometimes."