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Love Is a Mental Illness
Suddenly, you can’t eat, can’t sleep — you’re paranoid, self-conscious, insecure, possessive, irrational, guarded, awkward, and manic
An illness is a disease — or period of sickness — affecting the body or mind.
Can’t eat; can’t sleep
Like most illnesses, our sleep patterns and appetites are affected when we fall deeply, hopelessly, in love — there’s so much serotonin and adrenaline flowing through our veins, it’s like we’re high on cocaine.
Judgment
Love screws up our priorities.
We sometimes ignore and blow off our longtime friends.
Our new love interest becomes the singular focus and goal in our life…to the exclusion of others.
Our long-held beliefs, principles, and moral judgments are often modified, changed, or corrupted, or we are terrified of doing or saying something that might harm, jeopardize, or cause the object of our desire to reject us.
We reinvent ourselves
We twist and contort our behaviors to create someone we are not, attempting to become the person (we feel) we need to be.
Possessive, irrational, and powerless
The most strong-willed, opinionated, devoted, leaders and family men can become spineless…
