"Each morning she'd wake with a jolt of grief; an intense, almost physical feeling that morphed into thoughts of him that consumed nearly every waking hour. Most nights she fell asleep playing mental reruns of conversations and imagined reconciliations in her mind. For many people, longing like this sits within the broad terrain of ordinary romantic yearning. The kind often"
"Orly Miller, a psychologist and the author of Limerence: The Psychopathology of Loving Too Much, to be published next month,describes it as an intense psychological state of obsessive longing for another person. It's characterised by intrusive thoughts, emotional dependency and a powerful desire for reciprocation, she explains. Unlike ordinary attraction or infatuation, limerence involves obsession, emotional volatility and disruption to daily life."
Anna experienced persistent, intrusive thoughts and intense grief after her relationship ended, with daily preoccupation and imagined reconciliations that became invasive. Limerence refers to an intense psychological state of obsessive longing for another person, marked by intrusive thoughts, emotional dependency and a powerful desire for reciprocation. Limerence is not a clinical diagnosis and is not recognized in the DSM-5; it functions as a descriptive concept. Social media, intermittent contact and digital uncertainty amplify limerence by sustaining hope and ambiguity. Limerence differs from ordinary attraction by its obsession, emotional volatility and disruption to daily life.
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