Is love a dangerous addicting drug ?

[Micutzul]

Do you consider love to be a drug ? Not in the meaning that it is a chemical substance , but in the sense that it is something , which alters your state of mind and thus alters the normal ratio/neutral functioning of chemicals in your brain

Now ,in the regard of love being addicting , i think this is pretty obvious for everyone who has experienced .

What i think will be a very interesting debate is whether it is dangerous ?

I am going to express my opinion on the subject and it will seem radical , but it is my honest opinion .I bet not many people give this much thought , when they wish that they were in love , when they feel unloved , and when they notice they are falling in love .

I consider love to be the most dangerous drug/thing on earth .Love CAN kill you , and has killed many people : those who have commited suicide over losing a loved one , or the mutuality of the feeling .

Love withdrawal can ruin lives , can send you plummeting into a depression that you may never recover from . The horrible state of being depressed becuase of lack of love can cause problems in the health , job , social relationships areas , virtually in any area .

In specific regard to health , it can be very damaging , causing poor eating habits , even in it's positive " everything is going well form " , and especially in it's withdrawal . Not only poor eating habits , but raised levels of stress hormones which damage health , and a general state of lack of motivation , anger , depression , frustration , all of which have very negative effects on health , even if just on the immune system ( the most studied of it's effects ) .

Notice i have emphasised that it " CAN " . But , considering reality , it should be more like " WILL " . Because a very big percentage of love stories eventually end . Many of them end in not very pleasant terms , and many of them end just on one side , leaving at least one of the lovers in psychological suffering . This suffering will lead to all the effects that i've stated above . So love not only " CAN " but probably it "WILL " hurt you physically and psychologically .

Why is it the most dangerous ? Because everybody craves for it to a certain degree and most people actually look for it , they want to be in love . And even after negative experience with it , after a while they still look for it , they don't learn that it can hurt them , they just say : "well..it hurt me that time , in the future i hope it won't , i just wanna feel good by loving and being loved ". I think that's typical addict behaviour. Just replace " loving and being loved " with " shooting meth " in the above sentence and you'lle see where i'm going.

Oh , and just because it's natural , doesn't make it alright . For example , when you are extremely enraged it is natural to just start hitting the object(person ) of your rage very powerfully with intent to provoke damage , that's what Homo Sapiens's genetical predisposition tells you to do ( as a defense mechanism or as a way of asserting vital superiority/dominance) . But still , in our society , i think most people would admit that doing it is wrong .

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Pretty sure I disagree w/ you, but quite thought-provoking