What are Fidget Toys and how they help with stress –

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In recent years the fidget toys became fashionable among young people and adults. In different formats such as spinners, key chains with small balls to press, video game controller imitations and the most famous currently – the Bubble Fidget – which imitates bubble wrap, they may look like simple toys, just for fun, but they are made for anxious situations and stress, with the aim of relieving the pressure of the moment by making you focus on something else.

“There is one motor discharge that is produced in the face of what one is subjected to, where the body remains very still and without occupying its space and the relationship one has with the other, is a way of putting a very idle body in motion. They promise to relieve anxiety, but I don’t know if they fulfill this function, because perhaps anxiety is more related to internal and intimate issues, contact with reality in these difficult times or moments of external instability. But they don’t stop being gaddetslittle toys that any other object in our hand would have the same function”, shares Gabriela Malzynerpsychologist and psychoanalyst.

The professional explains that energy discharges are always sought if one thinks of the psyche in terms of energy. They tend to relieve the meager energy that is within the psychic apparatus. “But this type of toy is not able to relieve all this excess. That extra one can find a destination through the word… physical exercises are also good allies in an attempt to deal with internal excesses”.

Even though it’s something personal, which can help some, or not, in these moments using them daily in an intense way can be harmful to the health of the hands. Second Fernando Penteado, an orthopedist specializing in hand surgery, the act of reproducing the same movement can end up causing an injury. “They may end up generating some type of tendonitis, overloading the joints, which can cause discomfort, pain and even swelling if you use these toys compulsively”.