We all need people and we all need to communicate. Communication is so important that its presence or absence affects physical health and emotional well-being. An absence of satisfying communication can even jeopardize life itself. Medical researchers have identified a wide range of medical hazards that results from a lack of close relationships. Not everyone need the same amount of contact, and the quality of communication is almost certainly important as the quantity.
Communication does more than enable us to survive. It is the way – indeed, the only way we learn who we are. We decide who we are based on how others react to us. The messages we receive in early childhood are the strongest, but the influence