19 mai 2017

Addicted to love? Craving comes in two forms, and both can hurt


You can’t eat, you can’t sleep and all you can think about is your next fix. You may be addicted to love.

Intense romance can often come with symptoms resembling addiction – euphoria, craving, dependence, withdrawal and relapse – and brain scans have shown that it can be linked to drug-addiction-like activity in the brain’s reward centres.

-New Scientist