What do you do when you feel touched deprived?

[Anonymous]

I hug and kiss myself, sometimes bite myself and leave hickeys

[nolabels]

It's my opinion, with research bearing out the hypothesis, that people require physical contact in order to remain sane.

If physical contact with others becomes an impossibility, self-touch can suffice as a substitute.

Self-touching, with one being either subliminally or fully consciously aware that they're doing so as a means of providing comfort to oneself, is a behavior that, I believe, everyone engages in from time to time, some people more often than others, depending on their own needs.

There are individuals who will say that self-touch is a symptom of being gay or of autosexuality, or who may simply not be able to comprehend that anyone would do so.
It's my opinion that those individuals might be surprised to learn that they themselves self-touch without being conscious of it.

Self-touch is not exclusively, nor even mainly, a sexual activity, although it can be sexual in nature if so desired.

It doesn't need to be pretended that the touch is coming from another person, although there's nothing wrong with a person sometimes fantasizing that that might be the case.

Self-touch, to me, is very healthy, and an intimate recognition and fulfillment of a person's need for human physical contact.

To a large degree, having a pet such as a dog or a cat to be able to have physical contact with, by petting and holding them, although not being the same as human contact, even self-provided, can and does go a long way in providing the comfort of touch to humans.

I self-touch in various ways, either consciously or not, sometimes becoming aware that I'm doing so well after my self-touching has begun.

Self-touch need not necessarily be done in private, either.
I often see many people, sometimes seemingly lost in thought, stroking their own faces, arms or legs with their hands, arm against arm, or leg against leg, while in contemplation.

Self-touch can be a very great reliever of stress, with those who are conscious of its benefits purposefully engaging in self-touch when stress is recognized within themselves.

I think that self-touch occurs far more often than many people might think, and that it's a normal human activity.


Good question.

[ohsheeT]

Do you really i need to watch that I try to I tried to find somebody that is feeling the same thing or wants to feel the same thing. Have a role , play with them and when I do it right it is beautiful. Thit will feel like you have just been touched in so many different beautiful ways.
So come play role play

[Anonymous]

For me it's largely just been constant depression with some self-harm mixed in. I bite myself until I bruise or bleed sometimes or beat myself with my fists and sometimes objects. I use ASMR roleplay to help but it doesn't do much.

[HollyK21]

Hope your in therapy or have at least considered it. That’s not good at all.

[Opinion Owner]

@HollyK21 yea I'm in treatment and medication it doesn't really help though.

[Asker]

Oh I use to scratch myself till I bled on my arms and then a nurse ratted me out, so I cut/scratched myself with a dull piece of broken glass from my mirror and changed the location to my upper thighs
I don't think I was depressed tho
Just dealing with trauma from being SA and stalked in hs. It still felt like carried in college, but I stopped cutting when I was 20

[BadApple69]

I never feel touch deprived. Sometimes I get a lot of touch other times not so much. But when I don’t get enough it reminds me how good it is when I get the touch I desire. It’ll come in due time.

[UniquelyBasic]

I go and touch other random strangers so they don't feel the same sadness 😔

[Asker]

Bad boy 🖐

[Anonymous]

I've never felt that, but I'm probably just used to be never being touched.

[Abbycado]

Wtf…

@HollyK21 XD

[Asker]

🥲🥲🥲

[HollyK21]

Asker, you’d be better off getting an escort for the night than kissing and biting yourself. This is just weird AF😭

[Asker]

Nah, I'm not unattractive or anything. I'd rather not put myself in a situation where I get touched too much, and I don't want to use other people for my own pleasure

[HollyK21]

That’s quite literally the purpose of an escort, to be used for other peoples pleasure lmao, you think they care about your looks? They care about your money and that’s it.

[Asker]

Nah doesn't feel right to me

[HollyK21]

But biting and kissing yourself feels right? Lmao okaaaay creepy Jane.

[Anonymous]

I'm always touch-deprived. I feel depressed, but what can I do...

[Anonymous]

😆😆😆 there no such thing to a guy.

[Asker]

What do you mean?

[jahaims]

Sad..