Home (2)

Psychological impact
Since it can be said that humans are generally creatures of habit, the state of a person's home has been known to physiologically influence their behavior, emotions, and overall mental health. For example, in the introduction to the film Patch Adams, the concept of "home" is compared to the human need for peaceful sanctuary and the absence of it thus leading to restlessness. Such restlessness, as can be seen by that particular case, may lead to depression and, ultimately, to a loss of sanity.[2]


Other usages
The real-estate industry increasingly replaces the word house with 'home' in its literature, as in 'a four-bedroom home' or a 'modern townhome', a usage that is intended to suggest that the item being sold already has the emotional attributes of home before purchasers actually buy it. Clearly this is a marketing ploy, since a house that is for sale is either someone else's home (the vendor's or the sitting tenant's) or no-one's home, but not yet the home of a prospective purchaser. This usage however has crept into every day speech of many in the general community.