] Falling in love may be a great feeling but the next time you feel ] lovesick,missing your sweetheart, rush straight to a doctor as now ] the doctors have warned that the throes of passion should ] be seen as a potentially fatal medical disorder. ] Psychologists say that "lovesickness" is a genuine ] disease that needs more awareness and diagnosis and those ] little actions that are normally seen as symptoms of the ] first flush of love like, buying presents, waiting by the ] phone for a call or making a bit of an effort before a ] date, may actually be signs of deep-rooted problems to ] come. ] According to the Independent, in a report in The ] Psychologist magazine, Tallis has suggested that the ] effects of being lovesick could be described in the ] latest diagnostic terms with its symptoms including ] mania, such as an elevated mood and inflated self-esteem, ] or depression, revealing itself as tearfulness and ] insomnia. ] Aspects of obsessive compulsive disorder can also be ] found in those experiencing lovesickness, such as ] preoccupation and obsessively checking for text messages ] and e-mails. ] "The average clinical psychologist will not receive ] referral letters from GPs and psychiatrists mentioning ] lovesickness.However, careful examination of the ] sanitised language will reveal that lovesickness may well ] be the underlying problem. Many people are referred for ] help who cannot cope with the intensity of love, have ] been destabilised by falling in love, or who suffer on ] account of their love being unrequited," Tallis was ] quoted by the paper, as saying. ] And all this can lead a person to commit suicide, warns ] Tallis. Now you can't say you didn't know that falling in love causes mental illness to occur. Falling in love can kill you! |