> On 10 Feb, 05:51, PeaceTrainMakesStopatARS...@gmail.com wrote:

>> By SHARON JAYSON, USA TODAY
>> Posted: 2008-02-08 14:34:21
>>
>> Are you crazy in love or just plain crazy?
>>
>> It all depends on whether new research into a condition called
>> "limerence" leads to the creation of a new psychiatric diagnosis.
>>
>> "It's that first stage of attraction where there's that bliss and
>> euphoria and the newness of love," says Brenda Schaeffer, a
>> psychologist from Minneapolis.
>>
>> That's the upside.
>>
>> But there is a dark side, too.
>>
>> "It is obsessive-compulsive when you're feeling it. It's the center of
>> your life," says Arthur Aron, a psychology professor at State
>> University of New York-Stony Brook.
>>
>> "Is it a mental illness? People are crazy when they're in love. It's
>> extremely common to be intensely in love, but it's temporary."

>
> No. This cannot in any way be called a "mental illness"... A so-called
> "mental illness" is according to neuropsychiatry something you are
> born with. In the genes or by a braindamage of sorts. Everything can
> be called "mental illness" in a sense or four so I fully understand
> the question.
> Well, if coffeineintoxication can be a diagnose this one stands a
> chance.