The need for meaningful human companionship is just as great for all of us. That's what being human is. This has led three psychiatrists several years ago to note that loneliness has reached epidemic proportions in this country. They say chronic loneliness affects between 75-90 per cent of Americans. What this means is that people's drive for intimacy, their search to know and be known, to love and give love, to understand and be understood is greater now than ever.
People are desperate for meaningful companionship.
As a result, we grab a hold of anything that might offer an antidote to our loneliness. He was hospitalized a few years ago after health officials found more than 300 rats in his home. And apparently, they weren't there because of filth and garbage in his house. According to an official, the rats were well-fed and domesticated. The poor man was so lonely he kept 300 rats around him.