Touch deprivation.
Did you know that touch deprivation/starvation is a real health condition? As humans, we need physical contact to thrive, and the pandemic took it from us. With quarantine and social distancing, we haven’t had the possibility to be around the people we love, to hug our family members, and simply spend some time together like we used to.
Physical touch is linked to improving your immunity, decreasing anxiety, and expanding trust, that’s why we need it so much. Plus, it feels great. If you don’t believe in all the benefits, a recent study on premenopausal women has found that hugs and small gestures from their partners have been linked to lowering blood pressure.
As Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami, has explained, the absence of touch is linked to depression, anxiety, and a weaker immune system. Another study discovered that more than 68 percent of its participants feel like the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine deprived them of physical touch.
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