The trend is gaining traction online, with influencers and users sharing their pacifier picks and stress-busting routines.
Well, this is a new one. Seems stressed-out young adults in China are turning to an unusual stress reliever – adult pacifiers. With rising anxiety over money, work, relationships, and sleep problems, some are finding comfort in the nostalgic act of sucking on a pacifier. Users say it’s calming, oddly satisfying, and apparently helps some people sleep better. The trend is gaining traction online, with influencers and users sharing their pacifier picks and stress-busting routines. Psychologists explain it as “regression phenomenon.” The idea is that “when people are faced with extreme stress and insurmountable problems, they tend to unconsciously regress to an earlier stage of development, and the pacifier symbolizes the security and comfort of infancy.”