Elated? Depressed? Obsessed? You may be suffering lovesickness

[Robert Oak]

Before the 18th century, lovesickness had for thousands of years been accepted a recognised ailment. But for the past 200 years it has been out of favour with medical practitioners as a proper diagnosis

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=608405


Finally, after years of discounting the mating bond, it's getting
recognized for what it is...

what's next? Grief is no longer classified as a chemical imbalance?

:)

[flaminbats]

1. Want to learn about lovesickness?

try getting married..:dunce:

[liberalhistorian]

5. Well, being single

ain't so hot, either, you know!

[struggle4progress]

2. Is moxibustion coming back too? I hear it's a good way to treat ...

.. phlogiston imbalances.

[WindRavenX]

3. Sounds like me

Now I'm worried...

[neomonkey]

4. Wow pretty interesting

Put simply, falling in love is just another one of those pain in the ass rituals of life that brings out the worst or best in us.

[yardwork]

6. Old folk songs are full of tales of people dying from broken hearts

They knew something we've forgotten or tried to explain away. The last line of the article says it best. "People can die from a broken heart."

[AuntiBush]

7. No, it's now an "Official"

National past-time!

[bdot]

8. More good news.

Good news of me since I've never been in a relationship. Yet another "sickness" I've successfully avoided.

[SoCalDem]

9. A distant relative of mine died from "exhaustion"

That's what the death certificate said.. another died from "dropsy"..Of course they were quite aged and they died in the 1800's, so I guess life was pretty exhausting back then :)

[Maddy McCall]

10. What exactly is dropsy?

I've heard of it, especially through old documents, but I have always been too lazy to look it up.

[SoCalDem]

11. I don't know.. but I'm guessing parkinsons or something similar

:shrug:

[NashVegas]

12. I Had This Last Summer / Autumn

Constant *swooning*
2-3 hours of sleep per day, yet in a remarkably good mood.
low grade fever.

It was wonderful.