SEROTONIN a chemical that
has a soothing effecton the brain. Too little serotonin has been linked to agression,
depression and anxiety; drugs in the Prozac family fight these conditions by
boosting the chemical's presence in the brain.
obsessive compulsive disorder.
Evidence found that serotonin levels were unusually low in people with obsessive
compulsive disoder. She was struck by the way their persistent one-track thoughts
mirrored the musings of people in love.
Throughout the day, both the people with OCD and the lovestruck c an spend hours
fixating on a certain object or a certain someone. Both groups often know their
obsessions are somehow irrational, yet they can't snap out of them.Both had
low levels of serotonin.
A biochemist has shown that alcohol seems to deplete serotonin in the brain,
and that this chemical imbalance makes some people quick to fight. Plummeting
serotonin might also dissolve inhibitions - creating a passionate haze that
lures you into thinking that the person at the other end of the bar is unbelievably
attractive.
...without intense emotion, which typically creates an unrealistic image of
the love object, rather like a photo that is perfectly airbrushed, nobody in
their "right" mind would fall in love.
The Great Romantics are people suffering from cyclothymia, a bipolar disorder
somewhat like manic-depression that brings alternating periods of intense excitement
and gloom.