About My Experiences with ACTlab

I enjoyed most of the ACTLAB class and listening to what people said. But then there were times where I felt uncomfortable. This story sums up my feelings about ACTlab.

The first week we had to touch people. If you know me, you know I don't huge unless its necessary and I will avoid contact at any costs. Elevators with too many people cause me to go into anxiaty attacks. Basically physical contact makes me nauseous, ESPECIALLY with people I don't know. The first work shop we did was where we had to get a partner and keep one single point of contact while moving. So people I had never met before were touching me and I was touching them. Eventually the whole class was engaged in a nonsexual touching orgy. I felt so helpless and exposed.

I look at my experience with ACTlab as going to my therapist. I hate therapy and I hate my therapist but I know its necessary sometimes and I learned a lot about myself from the experience of it.

 

Tessa