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Category: Lovelessness as an Illness

Most people have endured a period of lovelessness in their lives, most commonly when a romance has failed.  Either they have fallen out of love with someone or been rejected by a lover.  Pain ensues.  The pain is usually emotional, but it can also be physical.  Jilted lovers can suffer bodily aches and pains, headaches, stomach upsets, and the exacerbation of a chronic illness such as colitis.  The term “broken heart” conveys the idea that the heart is actually damaged from a loss of love as if the heart was the organ responsible for affection and not the brain.  Yet studies have shown that there are certain parts of the cortex that are activated when a person suffers a rejection of love.  Clearly, something occurs in the brain and mind that resembles the withdrawal of a drug on which the man or woman is dependent.   I will describe, in subsequent posts, steps to deal with the condition of lovelessness.

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Love During the Holidays

Here is a problem that I often see in my practice.  True affection and love during the holidays often get lost amidst the celebration, parties, and good wishes for the …

Lovelessness as an Illness

How Lovelessness Begins: Bonding and Attachment

Lovelessness can have early origins. The capacity to bond with another person is formed within the first few months and years of life. Strange to say, this discovery was made only …

Lovelessness as an Illness

Something is Missing

Recognizing a loveless state is not easily done.  I saw a man who had never truly considered how deficient his upbringing had been.  It was only when he became clinically …

Lovelessness as an Illness

Defects in the Ability to Love

Lovelessness and love sickness are real, but hardly something studied by the medical profession.  Yet both conditions have physical manifestations: a loss of appetite, sleeplessness, a decrease in the will …

Lovelessness as an Illness

Introduction to this Blog Site

Medical text books do not mention the word “love,” yet the topic plays a role in all human happiness and tragedy.  Lovelessness has the force of a disease, and love …

Topics for Discussion

  • Recognizing Lovesickness
  • Cinderella Love and Unrequited Love
  • Online Love and Electronic Bonding
  • Lovelessness as an Illness
  • The Search for a Soulmate
  • Repairs for Love Deficient Syndromes
  • The False Power of an Affair
  • Being Beautiful and Unloved
  • Fatal Relationships
  • Romantic vs. Marital Love
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