![]() ![]() You see a theme in the words crazy, sick, and mad. Lay terms for limerence: romantic love, crazy love, lovesick, mad love, amour fort. It is also the state I wish to call home. It is both a psychological and physiological state. My classic symptoms-involuntary preoccupation, mood swings, emotional sensitivity, enhanced sensual awareness-are what tip the diagnosis. I spend an embarrassing amount of time looking at myself naked. But I have been shopping for beauty products and underwear in a fever. I haven't started turning the light switches on and off or urgently avoiding sidewalk cracks. Aspects of my current brain chemistry resemble that of a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. What a feeling! But can that first flash-dancing, knee-buckling sensation of falling in love endure? Valerie Frankel investigates the science of walking on air. ![]()
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