Tickle and stress

[damdu]

can tickling someone relieve stress ?

 

[Wade]

There's at least one person in my life for whom tickling me into hysterics definitively and empirically relieves her stress levels. What it does to my stress level is a whole other question.

 

[WickedTouch]

Yes! It is not guaranteed to, however. For the person doing the tickling, it can relieve stress or be unsettling, depending upon the lees reactions and how the ler mentally and emotionally processes them. For the lee, many report profound stress relief, but for some people it can be stress inducing. Like with most things, it depends upon the lens you are looking at it through and how your mind and body are tuned to it.

 

[mistee]

For me, tickling would reduce some of my stress 🙂

 

[torturoustickle]

Tickling can produce a huge amount of endorphins. The laughter, the struggling, the brain busting desperation ..........
It would not surprise me if some found it to be a great stress relief. 🔥😁

 

[Doriansenigma]

There's at least one person in my life for whom tickling me into hysterics definitively and empirically relieves her stress levels. What it does to my stress level is a whole other question.

Does it stress you out?

 

[MaleTickLeeLer]

For me? DEFINITELY!

 

[Wade]

Does it stress you out?

I mean the part where I'm thrashing around involuntarily and trying and failing to evade the sensations being relentlessly inflicted on me, begging with increasing intensity for it to stop, leaving me finally panting and with an elevated heart rate -- if all of that isn't stressful in the moment then at minimum it mimics the effects of stress. To be sure, in the aftermath there's eventually a wave of relief and a cathartic endorphins thing that washes over me and that seems decidedly anti-stress, but you gotta go through a fair amount of exertion to get there. Whereas, by contrast, some ticklers I know settle into a very serene zen kind of place even as they're inflicting the tickling -- for them, the experience seems to combat stress pretty much immediately.

 

[aberdeen]

Tickling can produce a huge amount of endorphins. The laughter, the struggling, the brain busting desperation ..........
It would not surprise me if some found it to be a great stress relief. 🔥😁

I agree and stand behind all the other comments I've posted about tickling being actually a form of 'therapy' for many people....many blogs exist where LEEs crave tickling in some form or another...whether soft and gentle or all the way to scream-inducing tickle torture where they admit to hating it but loving it !
Its is all about the brain chemicals...you can't fight chemistry!

 

[RoxanneAlex]

Yes, definitely. It's a really good stress buster

 

[GarnettRose]

It can, but to be real, if I am stressed enough, I probably would want rest over tickles just so I can actually enjoy the experience of being tickled