Discussion»Questions»Outside the Mug» One of my meds has caused me to want to have no physical contact with anyone. Even touching my wife creeps me out.
I think having it ripped away is different than always being that way or developing it gradually. For most of my life, I hated touch. Any kind of touch. It made me recoil. The girls at work would do this obnoxious Friday farewell hug. Ugh. I would always come up with an excuse to be elsewhere when they did it. Overall, it didn't impact me not to touch. Not liking touch was normal. The only people I was ok touching was my kids. They were always different. However, now, I'm generally ok with it unless it's someone I don't know, and if, all of a sudden, I wasn't ok being touched by someone I cared about, I think that would be devastating to me. I would miss the closeness for sure.