Does anyone know if there's a proper term or psychiatric condition for extreme infatuation? I mean, infatuation/attachment that persists for a very long time, and is so extreme it severely impedes your ability to function?
Thanks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4256613,00.html
Pathological infatuation?
Interesting article but did they have to make it sound like a crush turns you into a goth?
But the new research hints that the crush may be the start of a slippery slope towards locked bedroom doors, black clothes, goth music and an all-out depression which could carry on into adulthood.
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Thanks for the article, but the bit about goths sounds like it came out of the 60's.
Stop playin' those subversive 'Beetle' records you dern whippersnapper, next you'll be growing a moptop on that empty head of yours. They're just wigs you know.... Today the Bertles, tomorrow you'll be takin' drugs and holding up banks.
I'm not a goth, by the way, pretty much the opposite, but that bit seemed a bit silly to me anyway! Pathological infatuation sounds about right, as long as it doesn't imply 'serial infatuation'.
Curse my brain, I know how stupid infatuation is, I don't want it but it won't go away... It turns into all sorts of nasty emotions, but luckily for myself, they're mostly directed at myself. I think that's lucky.