I believe that love is a variation of obsessive compulsive disorder. The term I would use to describe the mental illness is Obsessive Compulsive Love Hormone Dependency or OCLHD for short.
I believe that the hormones that are aroused during love are addictive and losing love causes painful withdrawal symptoms which are mentally disturbing akin to addictive drug withdrawal.
This love drug dependency evolved to enable and cement pair bond formation in order to ensure that the resulting progeny's genes are nurtured and cared for by the couple who share the affliction. Evolution has created this illness because it works. It is not so much a disorder, as an order by evolution via our genes to get out there and bond and mate.
Those who love produce more offspring and this is the measure of fitness natural selection uses. This affliction is by no means restricted to humans. Look at Canada Geese and Mallards and you will see how well it works.
© 2008 Jorma Jyrkkanen. All rights reserved.
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