Thursday, December 8, 2016

Carnivals a hug can cure loneliness?

< what is skin hunger? >
Peter Collins in the film "Fly in the substance" tells the story of his strong desire to be touched. A picture of a film, a fly in a closed jar blindly, voiceover Collins slowly describe feeling the touch his wife, his voice filled with desire to be touched.
According to the survey, currently about 80000 in the United States like Peter Collins strongly longing for the comfort and touch. This kind of phenomenon in psychology has an exclusive terms - "skin hunger and disease.
Skin hunger and disease, also known as "touch the hungry," specifically to people's desire to physical contact with needs, many people will this desire misunderstanding by nature desire, through sexual activity for a short meet.
Skin hunger and disease requires us to have meaningful physical contact with others, and to achieve dual meet the psychological and physiological. This seems very sexual desire, but it is more simple than sexual desire.
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< touch, is part of human nature >
American psychologist harry harlow did a controversial experiment, he will be of the baby monkey is separated from its mother, and then provide baby with two also have no "false mother" instead of life: one is made of iron wire and wood, there are enough milk, another is covered with soft cloth, do not have any food.
Two "false mother" in the laboratory, the baby monkey eventually chose soft model without any food, into the embrace of mother. The experiment showed that the human primitive instinct, we desire to touch almost as strong as the demand for water and food.
But most people don't realize they have skin hunger and disease, most people don't desire to contact when a serious fault. Instead more easy to put his own unhappy due to work stress, depression or any other things.
This may also explain why for anxiety, depression, or skin hunger and disease patients, to touch and massage can alleviate their depression soon, to make them to restore calm as soon as possible.
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 < the world of science and technology have lack of physical contact>
"With a stranger to a hug"
Network makes today's young people more lonely.
Seems to be more intense loneliness of modern urbanite, we may be in big cities, millions of people can't find a person who can talk; Passed by one hundred thousand people every day, don't have any close friends, carnival restless social situation, still do not feel loved.
Some people say that technology is will we become lonely, even though the progress of science and technology make our world into a global village, a village of people should be more close to. But in the face of tens of thousands of online relationships: friends, focus on people, WeChat contacts, even those who dive of users, we have more lonely than ever before.
This may be because, the world of science and technology have lack of physical contact.
Touch is not only related to human nature, it is part of human nature, even is to become a necessary condition for people, it has a certain irreplaceable healing.
So the question: whether you like me, also have "skin hunger and disease"? You or the people around you, and which is similar to "modern disease" lonely? Welcome to comment area/background, share your story with us.

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