lovesickness
This is in no way stating that you must go to therapy, or get put on medication. This is to show that 1) anything can be turned into an "illness' and 2) That sadness, love, sex and food should never be controled by anyone. Love,food,sex are all natural and a way of life.
- Is Love a Disease? Lovesickness and early medicine @ Medicine Ancient and Modern - “*Doctors were once reluctant to discuss the evident symptoms of unspeakable love as a sickness, as exemplified by a famous case recorded by Galen, the wife of a prominent Roman citizen, Justus: her sleeplessness and depression could be the signs of one of two things, a melancholic disposition or some hidden worry. “
- Are You ‘Lovesick’? @ Good Therapy - “ If you are lovesick, now is the time to write, sculpt, sing, or even start a new workout routine. This will help you take all of the intense energy in your heart (and brain) and channel it into something that will benefit you. Start a journal and write about your feelings. Two years from now, you might read it and think, “Ugh … what was I thinking?” Or you may find you have a wonderful new romantic novel or beautiful new love song.”
- 7 Signs You're Lovesick @ Everyday Health
- @Urban Dictionary - So deeply affected by love as to be unable to act normally. You awake every morning, thinkin on your love, having dreamt of them all night, the pain of seperation searing your heart every time a site or smell brings back the memory of your last encounter.”
- Lovesick: Yes, this is an actual condition @ She Knows - “Intrusive thoughts. You go about your business, but are suddenly flooded with images and thoughts of your beloved.Fantasy. You daydream about your love interest, even when it negatively impacts your job performance. Alternatively, you make up entire scenes with your love interest that aren't based on reality.Self-doubt. You fear rejection from your love interest so much that you question yourself and feel unbearably shy in his presence.Weakness. You lose strength in your knees and legs when you think about him, or have trouble controlling your shaking hands in his presence.Insomnia. You have difficulty sleeping at night, due to intrusive thoughts or because of your heightened sensitivity to your emotions and fears.Anxiety. You experience heart palpitations, flushing of your cheeks or shaking. You fear the worst possible outcome from your infatuation.”
- Truly, madly, deeply: How love makes you sick - today > @ TODAY.com - “Can’t sleep...Can’t eat...Can’t concentrate...Chest pressure...Nausea and butterflies”
- Lovesickness refers to an informal affliction that describes negative feelings associated with rejection, unrequited love or the absence of a loved one. It can manifest as physical as well as mental symptoms. It is not to be confused with the condition of being lovestruck, which refers to the physical and mental symptoms associated with falling in love. The term lovesickness is rarely used in medical or psychological fields. According to the Hippocratic Medicine view, passionate love will almost always fade or turn into 'love melancholy’ — this is a form of depression or sadness.Passionate love is the love in the "honeymoon phase", the beginning of new love, but it burns itself out after a year or two, compassionate love is what occurs after passionate love fades, it is a stronger bond of companionship Long before Freud, in 360 B.C.E, Plato stated, “Love is a serious mental disease,” and Socrates added that “Love is a madness Scientific study on the topic of lovesickness has found that those in love experience a kind of high similar to that cause by illicit drugs such as cocaine. In the brain, certain neurotransmitters — phenethylamine, dopamine, norepinephrine and oxytocin — elicit the feeling of high from “love” or “falling in love” using twelve different regions of the brain. These neurotransmitters mimic the feeling of amphetamines - Wikipedia
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- "Being lovestruck means having mental and physical symptoms associated with falling in love: 'love-struck. It means to be hit by love...you are hit in your heart by the emotion of love'.Historically, being lovestruck has been viewed as a short-lived mental illness brought on by the intense changes associated with romantic love. Avicenna, a Persian polymath, viewed obsession as the principal symptom and cause of romantic love sickness. This diagnosis has been out of favor since the humoral model was abandoned, and since the advent of modern scientific psychiatry." - Wikipedia
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