The phrase "feeling raw" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to convey a feeling of intense emotion due to a traumatic event or painful experience. For example: "After she lost her father, she felt raw and vulnerable."
Their interactions consumed her and left her feeling raw.
When it subsides, you're left feeling raw and tired.
The jig worked - you were classed as 4-F - but the performance left you feeling raw.
The day after the election, they'd had a charged discussion about the results, and, still feeling raw, they had written about the discussion the next day.
Like the emotional equivalent of a massage with a sandpaper loofah, the film leaves you feeling raw and tender, thanks particularly to the knockout performances from the small cast, especially Collette.
The first stop for the group was outside the federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan, in 25F (-3C) weather that felt 10 degrees colder thanks to a cutting wind that sliced through gloves and left exposed skin feeling raw, if feeling anything at all.
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a savage sentimentalist among contemporary playwrights, an artist who likes his feelings raw to the point of bleeding.
But with foreign aid less popular than ever and feelings raw over the recent diplomatic attacks, no one wanted to take a vote many constituents would not like.
The debate over who makes the decision raises fundamental challenges to medical integrity as well as patients' rights and can rub feelings raw for all concerned.
I wrote down my feelings, raw as they were, first in my journal and later started publishing them online.
From one scene to the next, as is his custom, Mr. González Iñárritu creates a feeling of raw, sprawling intimacy.
