Home alone syndrome hurts humans

Associated Press reported Tuesday November 2, 06:06 PM

"People living alone are more likely to suffer mental and emotional problems because, like cows and dogs, humans crave social interaction, a researcher says.

Dr Bill Metcalf, a sociologist at Queensland's Griffith University, said humans were social, or herd, animals that from birth had an intense need to belong to a group.

He said the growing trend towards single household living was creating lonely, isolated people who were less likely to feel as valued and secure as those living in groups.

"Community living is a natural phenomenon - it's like breathing and sex and eating," Dr Metcalf said.

"When we are not in community we suffer the way that a cow or a dog suffers if it's deprived of interaction."

Pete's Points

I think I have just been insulted! I would not have minded being compared with a horse, but being likened to a cow or a dog (presumably also female)?

Nay. (or should that be neigh?)

It's just a little too much!