Question: I am 39 years old and I live with my partner. We work all day and everyone is in their own world. Our families live in the interior and we see little. There is almost no sex life. Although I feel alone. What do you advise me? (LC from Canning)
The first need is understood to be everything necessary for living and which cannot be replaced by any other available support. Food, water, pain and shelter are essential to man, since they cannot live without them or in insufficient quantities.
In the same way, another primary primary need – and from birth – for the survival of others is the help we call love, and which will inexorably determine the future development of man.
Virginia Satir, referring to family therapy, stated that “the emotional contact of personal relationships is like breathing for the support of life.”
Medicine has shown that emotions are the key to shaping the brain. / Photo: Shutterstock.
At present, moreover, medicine shows that emotions are essential to the pattern of the brain. What is this, Pythia? The design of the human brain arises from the quality of personal personalities, when the brain breaks down its circuits, different networks and neutral tasks.
As neurons, the more they are united and connected to each other, the better the function of the brain will generate, people need to be connected to others, since their emotional well-being depends on the set of relationships they have.
When a person feels alone and needs no affection, they will become distressed, angry or depressed, and they will create a vicious circle because the same anxiety or depression does not allow them to seek the connections they want or need. , a psychiatrist
Gentleness, according to medicine and psychology
Medicine and psychology have abundantly demonstrated loneliness, isolation and lack of affection with a higher incidence of depression, physical pain, cardiovascular problems, memory loss, consumption of alcohol or drugs, fear, sexual promiscuity and the worst development in diseases.
On the contrary, tenderness, caresses and affection are of great importance, which reduce stress, pain and anxiety.
For many it is difficult to be or feel alone. / Photo: Shutterstock.
For many people, it is difficult to be alone or to feel alone, despite the fact that in a world of technology oversized with resources to connect life. Relations with others must be sought and specified, since man is proposed to be social.
When a person feels alone and needs no affection, they will become distressed, angry or depressed, and they will create a vicious circle, because the same anxiety or depression does not allow them to seek the connections they want or need.
Affection or giving or receiving affection implies the existence of an emotional bond with another person, and feelings are the streams through which such a connection is established.
People need to connect with others, since their emotional well-being depends on the set of relationships they have Norberto Abdala, psychiatrist
We all have these tools, but we are able, willing, and know how to use them. Many family problems, marital or interpersonal, are due to emotional disconnection between its members.
Some people avoid bonds with others because they are afraid of feeling dependent, vulnerable, hurt, or rejecting their needs by showing their support.
Others interpret it as demanding and overbearing, which can generate rejection. Most of the time, they are people who have had even a few long-distance relationships before, which has created a void that is difficult to fill.
No one is immune and indifferent from personal ties, which constitute the fundamental aspect of life, whether positive or negative relationships, and always affect health, time and quality of life.
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