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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 01:48pm on 2004-08-09

Hmm. Fen are a few decades ahead of the curve on mental health discoveries? (Found the link here in [livejournal.com profile] texas_tiger's journal.)

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posted by [identity profile] basilwhite.livejournal.com at 11:38am on 2004-08-09
Hey Glenn! First time finding your LJ. Haven't seen you since Paula's wedding a million years ago.
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posted by [identity profile] texas-tiger.livejournal.com at 11:51am on 2004-08-09
*flattered*
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Hi Glenn

posted by [identity profile] rowantreedom.livejournal.com at 12:42pm on 2004-08-09
You're getting found all over the place today.

Followed you over from maybe Maugies LJ.

I haven't seen you since ... I don't know 1992 ... ?
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posted by [identity profile] cchan8.livejournal.com at 01:05pm on 2004-08-09
Actually the article makes clear that this is not a substitute for therapy:

Cuddle parties are intended for people who are emotionally sound. People in therapy or who are seeing a mental health professional are asked to consult their doctor before signing up for a party and to tell organizers of their situation.

On the other hand, the participants also "moo like cows." Go figure.

Personally, I like cuddling, but it's better with an S.O. than a stranger. Can be said for many things, come to think of it! :)

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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:18pm on 2004-08-09
They also said it was clear there was a need for more touch, and that people were suffering from a lack of it. So no, it's not therapy in the "fix what's wrong" sense; but it is "mental-health maintenance". Like vitamins for the psyche.
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posted by [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com at 01:39pm on 2004-08-09
it's certainly true that touch is very important. i've been desperately starved for touch for seven years now and see no likelihood of that situation improving much in the future. between having very few local friends and being someone who's incredibly uncomfortable with physical contact with anyone at all, i essentially can't have touch (beyond the occasional impersonal hug) unless i pay a massage therapist for it or find someone to sleep with. and since no one's expressed the least interest in sleeping with me for several years now... well. let's just say i'm not holding my breath.
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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 08:53pm on 2004-08-09
The cow thing seems a bit odd to me, but I heard about this a couple months back, too. Someone I'd met some time ago and who is on a bunch of my friends' friends lists sent me a vague invite... nearly posted it as spam before I figured out who had sent it.

The site she linked to, though, said nothing of mooing.
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posted by [identity profile] lothie.livejournal.com at 01:20pm on 2004-08-09
You know, actually, that gives me the heebie-jeebies. But then so do puppy piles at cons or whatever. *shudder*

(And I *love* to cuddle. But not with people I don't know real well.)

(I fully realize this is my problem, and probably the result of sexual abuse, and I should try to get over it.)

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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:32pm on 2004-08-09
It's your issue. Whether it's a "problem" and whether it's something you "should try to get over" depends on what impact it has on your life and how you feel about it. I'm hesitant to label anyone's "I'm not comfortable cuddling people I don't know" as a "problem" implicitly. (Or am I reading too much value-loading into the word "problem"?)
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posted by [identity profile] lothie.livejournal.com at 02:19pm on 2004-08-09
Well, I think if it's making me shudder to think of (and it always has), it's probably a problem.

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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 03:46pm on 2004-08-09
Umm, I think I heard about the snuggle parties a few months ago, but figured it was just a fad. We all probably know where I'm going to come in on the idea. An unoccupied lap is a sad waste of lapspace. Petmepetmepetmepetmepetme. Okay, that's enough.
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posted by [identity profile] scarlettj9.livejournal.com at 06:21pm on 2004-08-09
Touch is a wonderful gift. And I love to cuddle. And that my friend is what has gotten me through the last year of crap I've been through. So I will keep cuddling, and yes strangers are welcome to come cuddle me. Seams like a nice way to meet people.
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posted by [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com at 10:50am on 2004-08-10
you know, having thought more about this phenomenon, i have realized that it has a fatal flaw: the kind of people who are the most starved for touch are the kind who would never, ever, ever participate in such a thing. the people who go to an event like this will be the ones who are the most comfortable with touch -- and those people are probably getting all the touch they need in their day-to-day lives as a result.

depressing, isn't it?
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