Love refers to the informal suffering that describes the negative feelings associated with an ongoing relationship, or the absence of a loved one. It can manifest as a physical or mental phenomenon. It does not become confused with the condition of falling in love, which refers to the physical and mental symptoms associated with falling in love. The term lovesickness is rarely used in the medical or psychological field.
Many people believe love pain is created as an explanation for longing, but can be attributed to depression and various mental health problems.
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Love as a mental illness
Literature and poetry often portray love as a kind of madness, and the medical profession takes a similar approach. According to the view of Hippocratic Medicine, passionate love almost always fades or turns into 'melancholy love' - this is a form of depression or sadness. Passionate love is love in the "honeymoon phase", the beginning of a new love, but it burns itself after a year or two, love is what happens after passionate love fades, it is a stronger bond of friendship. In both cases, the pain of love can be experienced if love is lost or unrequited.
In 1915, Sigmund Freud asked rhetorically, "Do not we mean by 'falling in love' like sickness and madness, illusion, blindness to what a loved one really is like". Love disease is not just a form of expression for head-over-heels, but has been studied as an actual disease.
Scientific studies on the subject of motion sickness have found that those who fall in love experience the same kind of height as that caused by drugs such as cocaine. In the brain, certain neurotransmitters - phenethylamine, dopamine, norepinephrine and oxytocin - give rise to high feelings of "love" or "falling in love" using twelve different brain regions. This neurotransmitter imitates the feeling of amphetamine.
On average a psychologist does not get a referral from a general practitioner who mentions "love pains", although this can happen through what language the patient feels. With the common symptoms of love diseases associated with other mental illnesses, it is often misdiagnosed or found that with all possible illnesses, love is a fundamental problem. This is very dangerous when a person does not seek help or can not cope because love has been known to be fatal (consequences that may be attempted suicide, thereby expressing an ancient opinion that love can be fatal).
In his book "The Social Nature of Mental Illness," Professor Len Bowers raised the fact that although physiological differences exist in their brains that are considered "mentally ill," there are several other criteria that must be met before differences can be called malfunctions. Therefore, it is possible that many mental illnesses, such as illness of love, will never have sufficient evidence to be officially regarded as legitimate suffering.
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Symptoms
Frank Tallis, a researcher on the topic of love and compassion, put it in his 2005 article that love diseases happen when someone is "really, crazy, deep" in love and should be taken more seriously by medical professionals. Similarly, health experts agree that love pains have been known to kill and the process of diagnosis should be taken more seriously. Symptoms of illness of love are usually misdiagnosed due to various other illnesses or mental health problems such as OCD, this is due to lesser known love illness as a mental health problem itself although the love pain is a very common and widespread disease.
Tallis includes a list of common symptoms of love diseases:
- Mania - an abnormally inflated mood or increased self-esteem
- Depression, despair, or helpless
- Nausea
- Fear
- Insomnia, which can cause fatigue
- Less concentration
- Loss of appetite or overeating
- Stress - high blood pressure, chest and heart pain, acute insomnia; sometimes carried by "crush"
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders - Busyness and heaps of worthless but superstitious stuff
- Physically created psychological symptoms, such as abdominal pain, appetite changes, insomnia, dizziness, and confusion
- Chronic neck pain, body tremors, disturbing thoughts, frequent flashbacks.
- Mood swings quickly
According to Tallis, many of the symptoms of illness can be categorized under DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases). Obsessive-Compulsive disorder (OCD) is a symptom of love diseases because it includes preoccupation, it includes constantly checking someone's cell phone, Facebook, hoarding of valuables, etc. A further study conducted by Italian Psychiatrist Donatella Marazitti found that when people fall in love their serotonin estimate rate drops to levels found in patients with OCD, this rate is significantly lower than that of an average or healthy person.
Literature
William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet describes the true madness of "love" and the sadness felt by the two crazy young lovers. When Romeo finds his love dead (or so he believes), with a life mind without his "true love", sadness and depression defeat him and he takes his own life. Juliet, upon awakening and after seeing her body was also overcome with despair and took her own life.
See also
- Heartbroken
- Hi-wa itck, the Mojave Indian syndrome sparked by the separation of loved ones
- Limitations
References
Further reading
- Frank Tallis
Sickness: Love as Mental Illness (2005) - Tricia Vaughn Love is real, and its height looks very similar to cocaine use (2013)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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