A few weeks into lockdown, Helen bought herself a soft toy

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A few weeks into Melbourne’s first lockdown, Helen bought herself a soft toy. It had been decades since the 51-year-old had shown any interest in such objects but, at that stage she hadn’t hugged another person in more than a month

of loved ones. It was while roaming the aisles of IKEA, looking for a gym mat, that she stumbled across the toy section and thought, “Damn it; I’m going to buy myself one.”From the moment Helen picked up the stuffed lion cub and brought it to her chest, she felt soothed. “Even though that’s not physical contact with another human, it’s just about having something to hug, like a hot-water bottle in the middle of winter.

Lack of touch also triggered other issues, such as how she wasn’t able to have children. “The fact you don’t have kids to hug re-emphasises that.”Having people with children tell her how lucky she was not to be home-schooling, or have a husband to care for, didn’t help. “It’s like, ‘Hello? At least you can hug your kids, hug your husband and have all of that intimacy, whereas I don’t have any of that.

She says it’s well known that people need the touch of others in order to thrive. As a psychology student, Bouse was taught about babies in Romanian orphanages who were never held. She says the amygdala, the emotion centre in the brain, didn’t develop properly in babies deprived of touch.Loading

 

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Guess she couldn't find the multi billionaire with Ferraris,super yachts, homes on the French Riviera lol

Hyper-infantilisation is such a sugar sweet consequence of being forcibly locked down and isolated. Would work really well in a mass mind control exercise...

seriously? People actually buy this bullshit? 51 year olds promoted to get a fucking teddy bear? Madness!

Helen needs psychological help.

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