Talk:Obsessive love
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[edit] How to treat obsessive love
How do you treat obsessive love anyway? I'm currently suffering from it, and I don't want to end up committing any of the consequences. Please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by WalterJid (talk • contribs) 22:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC) 6 hello i am also affected by obsessive love but i am perfectly sane and hardly ”suffer“ from it. If you truely love whoever you're obsessing over you don't need to be ”treated“ for anything.This article is incredibly inaccurate.i don't love said person because of projection but because she makes me happy.she is hard to connect with because my friend told nasty lies about me to her,and because hardly anyone would like to see us together . i am not insane as this greatly-flawed article would suggest i am,so you're probably not either.
i have the exact same thing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.117.107.134 (talk) 19:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lists
I consolidated the information in the lists that were tagged into a body of text, but the latter part ("What Causes It?") ends up seeming like one long run-on sentence. I couldn't think of any better way to do this while simultaneously eliminating the list. If anyone has any better ideas on how to format that portion, it would be appreciated. If one feels I've simply done a horrible job, just revert and re-add the cleanup-laundry tag. I also fixed the above date for the deletion discussion, as it was set to November 31 2006, a date which has not yet occurred. --Skullfission 11:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- No need to be apologetic. One of Wikipedias tenets is to be bold. Keep up the good work. --GringoInChile 13:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Delusions
"Since obsessive love is more of a delusion than actually falling in love with a real person, it can lead to dangerous results depending on how far the obsession grows. Obsessive love can lead to stalking, rape, murder, and other harmful things to the target of obsessive love or anyone the person believes is “in the way” of their delusion. In one case, John Hinckley’s obsession for actress Jodie Foster caused him to attempt an assassination on former President Ronald Reagan, because he believed it would grab her attention."
This makes all obsessive love sound like delusion. Not all stalking, rape, or murder related to obsessive love is the result of a "delusion". Having obsessive love and realizing the person does not love you back is not delusional. It becomes a delusion when it becomes erotomania.
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[edit] Explanations
This is like an essay.....the person makes a statement but does not answer WHY or HOW, e.g. HOW is obsessive love similar to unrequited love. --196.219.185.21 21:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey, does anybody know what disorder it is if a person removes another person, and inserts themselves into a story, particullaryly if it is the removal of a past girlfiend and insertion of herself into the empty slot? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolpeople200 (talk • contribs) 00:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] How To Spot a Person Suffering From Obsessive Love
This section, although it may be true, is purely subjective. Research on the actual emotional state of an obsessed lover must replace this subjective account. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eaguerra (talk • contribs) 14:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC).
The whole possession thing is messed up, imho, because of BDSM. You can want to be possessed or want to possess without having a mental dissorder. This is just an opinion on sanity, this isn't fact. 71.88.41.176 04:39, 29 July 2007 (UTC)themadcaplaughs
[edit] Education, Writing Style
The article states that education creates a climate for obsessive love, "as nearly all obsessive lovers are educated people and thus able to think about and analyze their feelings". It seems to me that someone able to analyze their feelings and think things through rationally would be less likely to become pathologically obsessed. Furthermore, since when are educated people more likely to analyze their feelings? How the article is referenced makes it really hard to go back and see what Mr. Hodgkinson really meant. In the meantime I got rid of that bit because it doesn't make much sense.
The article needs to be re-written in more appropriate style and with more helpful citations. I've gone through and quickly fixed the tone and syntax in a few places, just for a start.
--Awesomebitch 00:12, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Expert Needed
There needs to be more detail on how an obsessive love affects the person's friends and families, and how one can disassociate everyone else for this one person. C. Pineda (クリス) 02:47, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
