Cold Sensitivity

You feel cold when others are still sitting in a t-shirt. You wear an extra layer even when the room is heated. Cold does not hit you like a weather event — it hits you like something personal. As if it means you specifically.

Medically this can often be explained through circulation, thyroid function, or metabolism. And these explanations have their validity. But they do not answer the deeper question: why does your system react so sensitively to the withdrawal of warmth? Why is the absence of warmth specifically so difficult for you to bear?

The psychosomatic perspective offers an answer that reaches further than blood pressure and hormone levels: your body remembers a cold that has nothing to do with temperature. A cold that arises between people — when closeness is absent, when support fails to appear, when a child learns that it must manage alone.