Side Effects Of Falling In Love: Why Is The Sung Feeling Harmful?

People often consider love to be the essence of human existence, sometimes equating it with happiness. But "suffering from love" means literally feeling the symptoms of the disease. In addition to relieving pain and reducing pressure, these high feelings also have negative effects.

Love starts a chain reaction in the body, the result of which is a neurochemical cocktail. A small but significant study (Marazziti and Canale, 2004) showed that people who fell in love six months ago or later have much higher levels of cortisol (stress hormone) than those whose relationship lasted more than a year (and moved into another phase) … Prolonged excess of cortisol leads to wear and tear on the body. “Stress is caused by the need to initiate social interaction during the period of falling in love,” the scientists concluded then.

In 1979, Dorothy Tennov (psychologist, Ph.D.) coined the term limerence to denote an obsession with an object of adoration in a person in love - an inadequately intense passion. “Being in this state is what is usually called 'falling in love',” writes Dorothy.

Obsessive thoughts about the object of desire, an urgent need for reciprocity, a growing inability to cope with feelings, anxious shyness in the presence of the object of desire are just some of the symptoms she described in her book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love.

“Mood swings, intense need to gratify one's passion, compulsive behavior, distorted beliefs about reality, emotional addiction, personality changes, risky decisions and loss of self-control,” lists Helen Fisher, whose experiment showed a similarity between romantic love and drug addiction. Well, here, as with any medicine, it is important to follow the instructions and not overdo it with the dosage.