It is the trend that we did not expect. More and more young adults are filming with a pacifier in the mouth, the same “Tototte” as that given to babies. And this for a very specific purpose.
Activated comforter mode
Coming from China, the acknowledgment of the lollipop gradually spreads via the networks. According to his users, young adults aged 18-30 for the most part, this pacifier (called “pacify” in English), would simply make it possible to calm down. To appease his anxiety in a few seconds as a child would do. Adepts, even recognize the power to sleep better, or to help them in stopping cigarettes. This with a simple lollipop that we find in all pharmacies. But what about this regressive mode? “A pacifier in the mouth, like an express return to early childhood. It’s funny … and at the same time worrying” Underlines Amélie Boukhobza, psychologist in front of this trend.
Sucking, a soothing power
What is true is that sucking, Tototte in the mouth, really and physically allow you to calm down. “Succation is one of the very first means of emotional regulation. It is archaic, but efficienthe “recalls our psychologist. This reflex is the one that we also find in cigarettes or the vapoteuse.
“It is oral drive. Like the maternal breast to calm and reassure. Like the comforter that we kept tight against you, long, to endure absences” continues the expert.
There is therefore behind this purchase or trendy a regressive logic: that of seeking refuge. “”When you no longer have the words, no longer the energy, the more the resources to face, the body is looking for a known sensation. Automatic appeasement. A neural shortcut towards calm “. This is what this adult pacifier promises.
Help in rubber, or cardboard?
But also cute or her, the pacifier is not trivial. First of all, it is not recommended for oral health (for the same reason that it is stopped in toddlers.) Raised regularly, the pacifier can shift the position of the teeth, cause lesions at the palate and tensions at the jaw. Repeated sucking can also cause some pain in the cervical level.
But it is especially in terms of mental health that this trend questions. “Succus her thumb, or to wear a pacifier, it is above all the sign that there is much more on hand to secure himself” suggests our psychologist.
“Some will see it a fragility, or something cute. I especially see an alarm signal. The symptom of a world that no longer offers enough link, framework, support. “
If adults need a pacifier, a pacifying to face a perceived reality as unstable, or anxiety -provoking, it is not a good sign. “”It is not so much the pacifier the problem. Rather what makes it necessary. “ Should we still ask yourself the question …