1. Language can hardly express the lover’s confident, rapturous state of mind

2. In love, everything about the beloved seems thrilling.

3. Yet all these characteristics: the narrowing of our world, the obsession, the experience of obstacles as aphrodisiac, the inability to resist, are also symptoms of a kind of slavery to the substance or person that causes them.

4. Were we in the grip of a magnificent obsession fueled by the many obstacles in its path? Were we soul mates, or were we being pulled forward by compulsions and desires that take over from reason in situations where love is concerned?

5. I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps, it is because envy – I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps, it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while the romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles on inspection. I hate to be love’s executioner – Stanford Psychiatrist, Irvin. D. Yacom

6. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference. – Maggie Scarf

7. Addiction is defined by behavior, not by fantasy. With sexual behavior, as with alcoholism, addiction cant be measures by the amount of someone drinks or their number of sexual partners. Is everyone who get drunk an alcoholic? Certainly not.

8. Addicts with many different substances are able to control the effects of one by using another.

9. Overeating can diminish the pain of remorse

10. The rush of energy, the euphoria in the presence of a loved one, possessiveness and the heightened state of lovers when they are together is not exclusive to our species.
11. coup de foupre – love at first sight

12. A connection to another person which becomes the thrilling, delicious, sought after center of the world.

13. Being in love can feel like falling and soaring, it can make a person hot or cold, dizzy or calm.

14. Addiction is chronic or habitual use of any chemical substance to alter state of the body and mind for other than medically warranted purposes.

15. Psychological dependence is the subjective feeling that the user needs the drug to maintain a feeling of well being.

16. Physical dependence is characterized by tolerance (the need for increasingly larger doses in order to achieve the initial effect) and withdrawal symptoms when the user is abstinent.

17. Directly or indirectly, virtually all drugs of abuse affect a single pathway in the brain, the mesolimbic reward system, activated by dopamine.

18. Dopamine spike – an unnatural level of pleasure which, when it subsides, leaves pleasure levels lower than the normal.

19. When addicts find each other, and they seem to have some secret way of knowing who they are, they often bond over a shared life.

20. As he enters the obsessive trance, the metabolic responses are like rush through the body as endrogens speed up the body’s functioning. The heart pounds…

21. A love’s obsession – an oxymoron if there was one

22. My mind filled up wit yearning like a loc with open gates.