(This isn't the first time I've posted this somewhere.)
Donatella Marazziti, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pisa in Italy, compared a lovers' serotonin levels with those of a group of people suffering from OCD and another group who were free from both passion and mental illness. Levels of serotonin in both the obsessives' blood and the lovers' blood were 40 percent lower than those in her normal subjects. Translation: Love and obsessive-compulsive disorder could have a similar chemical profile. Translation: Love and mental illness may be difficult to tell apart. Translation: Don't be a fool. Stay away.
Lauren Slater
National Geographic
February 2006
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