The Human Porcupine, When You Feel Prickly and Don’t Want to be Touched

It happens sometimes. You feel prickly and don’t want anyone to touch you. In fact, you dream of escaping from everyone and everything. You’d like to find somewhere to hide where you wouldn’t have to talk to anyone and can forget everything that’s happened. Where the world’s a little more balanced and your wounds hurt a little less. As strange as it may seem, this feeling is probably more common than you think. These are the moments in your life when you reach your absolute limit and feel burned out and exhausted. You avoid contact with others because your mind…