Nervous System Overload

Your results show that you may be experiencing nervous system overload.

Feeling "touched out" is its own kind of depletion.

When your skin has been in near-constant contact with someone else's body all day — nursing, holding, carrying — it starts to feel like it has nothing left to give.

By evening, some mothers want to crawl out of their own skin. They flinch at a partner's hand on their shoulder. A hug that would normally feel good can feel almost unbearable.

Not because they don't love that person. It's just that their body has run out of room to be touched.

It often comes with guilt, too — because the aversion feels like it's aimed at people they love. But really, it's not about them. It's just a resource that's been used all the way up.

Hang in there. You're doing great and there is nothing wrong with feeling this way.