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Obsessive love


Obsessive love is a condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess another person toward whom one feels a strong attraction, with an inability to accept failure or rejection. Although not categorized specifically under any specific mental diagnosis by the DSM-5, some people argue that obsessive love is considered to be a mental illness similar to attachment disorder, borderline personality disorder, and erotomania. Obsessive lovers may feel entirely unable to restrain themselves from extreme behaviors such as acts of violence toward themselves. They may be entirely convinced that their feelings are love, and may reject the idea that their severe obsession is not love. Obsessive love can begin at first sight and may persist indefinitely, requiring psychotherapy.

Obsessive love has been frequently used in mass media, often with a woman having such affections for a man in either a comical or an evil fashion. Obsessive love occurs in women and men, making it a gender neutral phenomenon.


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