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Tick Bite
9 min read
Also known as: tick sting · Ixodes bite · Lyme disease from tick · TBE risk · tick infestation · bitten by tick · bull's-eye rash · remove tick · tick-borne Lyme disease · red spot after tick bite
Your Body Is Speaking
A tiny creature, barely visible, bores into your skin and holds fast. For hours, sometimes days, without you noticing. No pain, no warning signal — just a silent intruder that latches onto you and feeds on you. Only when you discover it does the shock come: something has attached itself to you, has crossed your boundary, has burrowed in without your permission.
Medicine sees the tick bite as an infection risk — Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis, other pathogens. And rightly so: a tick bite deserves medical attention. But the psychosomatic perspective asks deeper: what does it mean when a living creature latches onto you and you don't even feel it? What does it say about you that you are tolerating a parasite — not by decision, but because you didn't perceive the intrusion?
A tick bite is not an ordinary sting. It is an image of how you hold yourself fast — and are held fast.
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