Have you ever had a snack because you felt bored or depressed, but not particularly hungry? I can relate. However, in Transactional Analysis, we also acknowledge psychological hungers, so take heart, your hunger was real it perhaps didn't need a yummy snack to hit the spot! The aspects of Psychological Hungers are:
Contact - The need for physical and social contact with others.
Recognition - Being acknowledged by others and feeling that we matter in the world.
Incident - The feeling that life still holds the possibility of pleasant surprises without which, we may feel hopeless and depressed.
Structure - Over the course of a day, a year or a lifetime, we need our time to have
structure and direction.
Stimulus - Not only do we need new things to happen (incidents), we also need them to be interesting and stimulating to our senses.
Sexual - We need to experience passion in our lives! Specifically this can be met through sex, but more generally the source of passion could be anything from art to Zumba...
In other words, as social beings, we need varying levels of intimacy with others. We also need a variety of positive, stimulating things to happen in our lives but with a healthy dose of predictability too. Psychological hunger pangs can also be felt, however, their nature and origins may not always be obvious and we may attempt to satisfy ourselves with 'junk food', i.e shopping, or binge tv.
If you feel that a therapeutic relationship could help you to work things out, feel free to get in touch.