We've all been in love before and have had good and bad experiences. For the most part, do you think that love can be mental suicide? It makes people go crazy, it changes people for the worse, do things they normally wouldn't do and sometimes even destroys a person.
2006-10-09 02:23:52 · 24 answers · asked by trafficjams 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
For the people who say false because their significant other and being in love with them brought out the best in you, can the same be said had you not been in the relationship? If the relationship were to end right now, would you really be okay with it?
2006-10-09 02:42:06 · update #1
True, some psychologist link those wonderful feelings of love with Obsessive compulsive disorder. When brain scans were taken of people that were 'in love' they showed the same patterns of someone with OCD. Being in love releases the same chemicals that are released during some phases of certain mental disorders. Seretonin and others are found to be in different amounts in someone in love.
2006-10-09 04:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
False. You just have to take the good with the bad. If a relationship ends just do your best to get over it and move on, usually a lot easier said than done I'll admit. Describing is as mental suicide seems to me to be a very extreme over-reaction. People do things because of love that they wouldn't otherwise, that doesn't make them crazy. Where are you getting this from?
By the way, I currently have no significant other, as of about 6 months ago, but I'm working on it. Just in case you were going to dismiss me as easily as everyone else who disagreed.
2006-10-09 03:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by teppic5 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i do believe that love affects the mind, as well as the body, spirit and soul...... if it's good, the effects are amazing, and the same holds true when it's an awful experience... in a bad relationship, ur mood swings, ur body hurts and thoughts race about ur brain... in a great relationship, ur mind swells w loving thoughts of the other person, ur body feels good and even better when they're around, and ur spirit is lifted and ur soul is calm... i would choose LOVE, real, honest love any day, so if im a little crazy, what's the harm!! :-)
2006-10-09 02:31:20 · answer #3 · answered by costellos_creation 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I think those who think love is mental suicide are the people who choose to love the wrg people. I love my bf, and being w/ him has changed me for the better. If someone brings out the worst in you, than that's not real love.
2006-10-09 02:35:31 · answer #4 · answered by qbanita0113 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you're talking about is not real love, but rather having a crush or being obsessed or infatuated. True love is calm, peaceful, strong, stabilizing, and supportive, not some romantic fantasy. True love inspires people to behave maturely and responsibly, not vice versa.
2006-10-09 02:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummmm
I might agree with u
but Im not like that im just smoothe and calm
but just like what Brian Adam said:in his song
................................
When you love someone - you'll do anything
you'll do all the crazy things that you can't explain
you'll shoot the moon - put out the sun
when you love someone
you'll deny the truth - believe a lie
there'll be times that you'll believe you can really fly
but your lonely nights - have just begun
when you love someone
when you love someone - you'll feel it deep inside
and nothin else can ever change your mind
when you want someone - when you need someone
when you need someone...
when you love someone - you'll sacrifice
you'd give it everything you got and you won't think twice
you'd risk it all - no matter what may come
when you love someone
you'll shoot the moon - put out the sun
when you love someone...........................
2006-10-09 02:36:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Lord, NO. It only destroys a person if its an unhealthy relationship.
I guess it would be a mental thing, if you were a weak person, but NOT mental suicide...lol
2006-10-09 04:25:36 · answer #7 · answered by ~~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a psych student one of the first things we learned that it's not what happens to you but how you think about what happens to you that counts. For instance one person breaking up with another will be fine but another person in the same situation will totally fall to pieces. I think you just have to live & learn unfortunately.
2006-10-09 02:32:59 · answer #8 · answered by shirazzza 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you make yourself open to love, you are vulnerable and easily hurt, yes. But you are also making yourself open to positive experience and nurturing as well. You can't have one without the other. It is a risk we all take.
If you could take all the love and not give any back, would you do it?
2006-10-09 02:28:43 · answer #9 · answered by psioni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False. Our emotions can be controlled if we use our intellect over our emotions. We should not be crazy over love. It is in being objective that we can avoid being in a suicide state when we are in love.
2006-10-09 02:34:51 · answer #10 · answered by maconsolviaa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋