May 15, 2009 15:18
"People who find the feeling of love too intense may experience "love sickness" with feelings of anxiety, and can have symptoms of mania, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), inflated self esteem and depression.......
the estimated serotonin levels of people falling in love were observed to drop to levels found in patients with OCD. Further, in brain scan investigations, individuals who professed to be ‘truly, deeply and madly’ in love showed activity in several structures in common with in the neuroanatomy of OCD, for example the anterior cingulate cortex and caudate nucleus"
Wikipedia is interesting, if sometimes a liar.
That whole article was very insightful though, and way too true.
I'm going to go read about Intercrural sex instead heheh.