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OMG what a super word "Skin Hunger" I like that. I am suffering from it these days.
The only person I have to feed this starvation I'm going through is my mom. I've tryed hinting that I want a hug but have not asked for one. I would probably get further is I
were to express my need and ask for a hug. Ya Think?
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Maybe your Mum is thinking about how much she would like a hug too but doesn't want to ask?

No harm in asking. The worse case scenario is she says no. And you've survived worse then that.
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I learned that one of the ways that babies fail to thrive is not being held. I type this one-handed as I hold my grandson who started fussing. Touch is, to me, one of the most important things in life. I've seen a lot of children (when I taught) to whom a small hug was a great gift.

Like a lot who've written here, being touched now is a bit of a difficult thing. Especially by a man. A man brushing by me in a crowd or getting too close can send my anxiety soaring. I understand now that this is a learned behavior and associated with PTSD. I don't know if it will ever go away. But by people that I care about or who are 'before people' (before PTSD), touch is still pretty much ok with me. It's the new or the 'after people' that take quite a while for me to warm up to.

Touch has always been something that helps me. It continues to be a thing that helps me to calm myself when life gets too much.

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