Long term, he added, going an extended period without positive physical touch can even lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. “Every single medical disease including heart attack, diabetes, hypertension, asthma-every single physical disease-is altered if you are more anxious, more depressed or if you have more mental health issues,” he said, People who are stressed or depressed, perhaps because of lack of touch, will have problems sleeping, Shah said. This can increase heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and muscle tension, and can suppress the digestive system and immune system-increasing the risk of infection. The body releases the hormone cortisol as a response to stress, activating the body’s “flight-or-fight” response. Touch starvation increases stress, depression and anxiety, triggering a cascade of negative physiological effects. Their psyche and their body want to touch someone, but they can’t do it because of the fear associated with, in this case, the pandemic.” “When someone is starved, it’s like someone who is starved for food,” Shah said. When physical contact becomes limited-or, in some cases, eliminated-people can develop a condition called touch starvation or touch deprivation. In one article about touch hunger in COVID, we learn: This is unfortunate, because the touch hunger that exists in many marriages is no less real and causes no less of a tremendous psychic and physical burden. Yet, there are no medical articles on the touch hunger that I see every day in my (virtual) office when people have a spouse who doesn’t want to touch them. There were many medical articles on touch hunger or touch starvation during COVID, which focused on how older people who live alone become depressed when they have nobody to touch them.
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