The Human Experience

very interesting topic , you should add more articles on it

well worth exploring in greater depth. i wonder if you identify social forces that encourage the creation of this emotional hunger and if so, how this hunger serves society. we certainly live in a culture centered on the creation of various emotional needs that then need temporary fulfillment via consumption. is there a way in which we are consumers of one another on an emotional level?

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I see way too much of my own life in this post, which is scary. But it's worth pointing out, and way overdue at that. Thanks.

Holy crap!! That's awesome! I checked out your art website to figure out if you had done the above piece. You have some really cool stuff. Keep up the great work! Art and healing brains, etc ;)

Much love,
YG

WOW...awesome article. Indeed, I see WAY too much of me in it. How to ...fix it? Can we...ever? Thank you for identifying this!

HOW DO WE FIX THIS -- I IDENTIFY (all too closely) WITH THIS ARTICLE AND BELIEVE I AM A PERSON AFFLICTED WITH EMOTIONAL "HUNGER" --NOW THAT I HAVE IDENTIFIED IT -- HOW DO I "SATE" IT?

What? I have serious reservations about some of your claims about the mother-child bond in particular.

Of course a mother does not yet love her new-born baby in the hours after it's birth: they are still largely strangers and have to get to know one another. to call a mothers natural impulse to care for a newborn as hunger/abuse is to deny the importance of that early period.

I'm sure there are some people who think they love for the wrong reasons, but I see a cynical distrust of other people's experiences of love in what this writer says here.

How exactly is a new mother suppose to feel/act?

I found this article fed my own prejudices.

From the mood it provokes there's a comment I would like to make.

I can't see how any is ever alone, all anybody ever does is socialize with their environment, it's called life. In this context "having nothing to do with anyone else" characterizes an involvement.
Alternatively one might say we are influential of our environment (inclusive of other people) by what we do and what we don't do, i.e. there is no non influence.

In this context, to say that a parent is responsible for his or her child is a dead end street, no school, no social service, no local culture, nothing else has any responsibility. But no problem, when he's reached some age of maturity we can blame the child for what he is. Problem solved?

Dear Sir,
I strongly identified with this article. Both of my parents were emotionally hungry, needy people. As an only child, I was the emotional "battery" they both plugged themselves into. As a thirty-something adult, I am not having children to prevent myself from possibly committing the same kind of abuse. However, I experience profound emotional hunger from unmet needs. How do I start healing myself and addressing this pain? If you have time, would you please contact me? Thank you, sir.

Dear sir,
Thank you for your response. It is much appreciated.
Peace~

The past 4 years, I have been dealing with a woman, who I considered, my most challenging psychological enigma. My first reaction to her was there is a biochemical embalance. I stil believe that. She is, also, a germaphobic, washes her hands abnormally; she said her Father taught her that. She does not trust anyone. She has never been married. She hates children. She loves animals.In the past, I have diagnosed this woman as a psychopathic/sociopathic/obsessive/compulsive/ADD "soulsucker."
She admitted this weekend that she believes she has attachment hunger. She has told me about her childhood, in the past. This woman is 57 years old and has lived off her parents her whole life. Three years ago, a reliable source told me, this woman said, "I wear my Dad down until he gives into me." That is in reference to all the homes she now owns, which are sitting empty because she refuses to rent them to anyone.
This woman has more enemies than friends. She has no friends.

I have, occasionally, encouraged her to get help. She talks about herself and the men she writes, who she never wants to meet.
She is aware she has problems but there is no one to help her.
I have encountered anyone like this, before, in my life.
Can this all come from attachment hunger?