how important is human touch? what if you never had it, or not enough?

Answer 1

Human touch is essential to forming a healthy emotional balance in our lives. Sometimes it isn't forthcoming from parental figures in childhood and leads to the person becoming introverted and unable to deal with physical and emotional love in their lives. It's a very common issue with many adults, but it can be overcome. If you have never had human touch, there is still an inert longing that will be present in your psyche... it is part of our human nature to be social and to crave the touch of others. Disassociative disorders have been linked to emotional abuse in early childhood, mainly from neglect of physical and emotional attachment to their parents or caregivers. It's a sad world that we live in when we are surrounded by millions of people and still there are lonely souls that wander around us all day and we just never take the time to really look and offer them a smile or a touch in friendship...Shalom.

Answer 2

Actually it's very important. They've done studies in Russia etc where kids were kept without touch. It affects the immune system, the psychological stuff, etc.
If you've never had enough of it, you can start now, even by getting a pet if you have no friends with kids to hug etc or no spouse. There are prob some self help books that talk abt this sort of thing.

Answer 3

Very important. I was in a relationship for a long time with a guy who had no appreciation for basic human contact. It was excruciating never to be able to comfort him or just show affection, never mind the fact that I didn't receive those from him either. Just incredibly painful. It was tough on my self-esteem too because I kept wondering if maybe it was something about me, if he thought I was fat or ugly or worthless or something.

Turns out he was just an ****** and a freak.

Answer 4

There were studies done on healing through the power of human touch. One of the greatest examples of our time was Mother Teresa who cared for, touched and hugged those who were ill. In many cases just having someone love and touch them gave children and people a will to live; in many cases terminally ill people lived much longer than expected....I believe in the power of human touch...it is necessary to understand our connection with one another...

Answer 5

It causes what's called "failure to thrive." It's a condition seen in babies that have been neglected. They don't grow, don't gain weight like they're supposed to, don't reach milestones, etc. They sometimes never get over it, and some, even after having loving foster parents, are never the same. They end up plagued with learning disabilities, behavior problems, and other issues, that sometimes straighten out as they reach adulthood, but sometimes don't. Even the babies who have mothers that feed them and change them (ONLY the necessities) still are affected by lack of affection. Though they weren't as extremely affected, they still were affected in negative ways, such as the delayed milestones. I worked at a daycare where we had some foster children that were like this. We had to make extra sure we were affectionate and play with them, etc. and that seemed to make quite a bit of difference. I can remember one baby boy who I thought was about 2 months old. I found out he was 8 months and still didn't roll over too well. Another girl would NOT look you in the eye and would bounce around like she was tweaking constantly. Her great-grandmother had her, but it had gone on so long that she was terribly affected. It took a lot to get her settled, to participate with anyone at anything, or to look at your face or that direction. But once she did, she had the prettiest smile. She was so tiny. She weighed 13-15 pounds at 14 months.

Answer 6

well if you had never expereinced a humans touch then it probably wouldnt be so bad becasue you wouldnt know what youve been missing, but for someone who has been in a relationship but then hasnt been touched in along time it can make them literaly crazy. After I just had my baby and I was told no sex for 6 weeks I wanted to cry!!! For me the touch of someone you love is one of the best things in life

Answer 7

For me, human touch is very important. And I'm not meaning doing the nasty. I love it when my husband walks up behind me and puts his hand on my back. Or holds my hand when we are watching tv. I can't go without it.

Answer 8

If he never knew about touching from when we were born then we woudln't know really how it felt and it wouldn't be a big deal to us. Just like scary movies....many kids wouldnt be afraid of the dark if it wasnt for those kinds of movies

Answer 9

I think it's important, especially when you're a baby. With out the feeling of your parents you would have no feeling of security. And you would grow up with feelings of always being abandoned.
And stuff like that.

Answer 10

It is very important especially for infants and children. They fail to thrive if they are not touched and cuddled.