[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: "Like many adults stuck at home during the Coronavirus pandemic that spring, Friedland found himself alone and anxious. He remembered how playing with the snappable plastic building blocks had brought him joy as a child."

That wasn't just joy those toys brought him as a child, it was security, and he needs to resolve what drove him toward them. No maladaptive mechanism in use today is going to fill that hole from childhood.

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: “They’re a stress reliever,” Friedland said. “They don’t fall apart, you can put them on a shelf and look at them and they give you fun, good memories.”

His toys as a child were anchors in an unstable life-situation and he's re-anchoring by using them.

He's an adult now, and needs to seek counseling to resolve early child instability and embrace the adult understanding that we don't have the control we think we need.