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Symptoms

A 2005 article by Frank Tallis suggested love sickness be taken more seriously by professionals.

Love sickness only occurs when a person has fallen in love, not when a crush emerges. However it may develop into love.

Some of the symptom clusters shared with love sickness include:

More substantively, the estimated serotonin levels of people falling in love were observed to drop to levels found in patients with OCD. Brain scan investigations of individuals who professed to be "truly, madly, deeply" in love showed activity in several structures in common with in the neuroanatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), for example the anterior cingulate cortex and caudate nucleus.