Love is a disease

[one]

I have not personally suffered any problems with love, everything is hunky dory. I do have friends that are struggling though and being the analytical person I am I have decided to investigate why love is such a hassle sometimes. I'm diving into the psych analytical area of love for a few minutes to investigate this disease.

Love...... is a disease.

Alcoholism, drug addiction, and even love...... addictions that cost people everything they have. Fixations of the mind.

Love has caused people to kill, just like drugs and alcohol have. Love has cost people everything they have, even their life. Just like drugs and alcohol have.

Love is therefore a disease of the mind, just like drugs and alcohol. It's a fixation of the mind, obsessive and overpowering addiction.

When you have a beer and like it, it's good. When you have love and like it, it's good. If you drink to much it's bad. Perhaps too much love is bad also.

Love exists only in the mind. It is an emotion, desire. Like an addiction, a disease if you will. Love does not exist physically in the real world. It only plays out through you.

The most violent and rage filled deaths have been over love, not drugs. Killing the mistress, or the cheating husband. Like a drunk would kill in a fit of rage, love has done the same on many occasions. All just emotions.

Mind altering drinks and drugs in massive amounts are known as diseases of the mind. We have a much stronger addiction to love than the other two mentioned.

When love goes bad, we cannot think clearly or function properly. Our mind is keeping us from sleeping, eating, and feeling good. We want the love to continue, we want to feel the love stay and by not having it and by it leaving it turns out world upside down as we cry for it and desire it, like an addict would coming down from his high.

Erase the mind...... and you'll erase the love. It doesn't even exist in the real world. It's just a disease.

[Jay]

Yah........it's all just a trick by our genes to get us to reproduce and propagate the species.....Right? Right?

~J

[one]

I dunno, but it works for me.

I love the inner workings of the mind. I wanted to be a shrink, but didn't have time to play in anyone else's mind except my own.

It's a logical world and I am an Engineer...... I'm a happy guy.

[Deleted]

I'm told free love has its merits.




The price of the love I've found has been a bit more exotic.

[gridbug]

Love is not a disease, it is a chemical addiction. Drug & alcohol abuse is not a disease either, it is self-inflicted poisoning, and can lead to chemical addictions.

Yes, how love makes you feel is wired into us for the propogation of the species. From an evolutionist POV the drive to mate is a big part of how a species propogates. From a creationist POV God made sex fun for that same reason.

Where does that feeling come from though? What is the mechanism. Hormones! For all practical purposes it is drugs you made yourself. Love puts you on a hormone high.

To get more of this hormone high you would change your whole life and do whatever is necessary. What there was of your life withers away, friendships go neglected, all falls to the side to get more... Not unlike heroin or cocaine. Frak the world - you'll do anything to get your next fix, anything to keep that high going.

There is a difference between disease and addiction although some blur the terms at times. Love is definitely a chemical addiction as bad as any other. Does it really mess up your life less than heroin?

Now love can GET you a disease... Especially that free kind!