This is me when you’re not here :(
I recently read that scientists have confirmed that falling in love basically generates the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine. It also stimulates intellectual areas of the brain as well as the stereotypical areas of the heart; and it only takes a fifth of a second to get you high. When you are in love, your brain releases euphoria-inducing chemicals that make you feel like you are on cloud nine. It makes so much sense now that I think about it. Sometimes when you just fell in love - or maybe you are heartbroken – you can’t eat or sleep! Once you’ve experienced love for the first time, you just gotta have more; and when you don’t get it, you go insane.
This would also make sense as to why it is so difficult to get through a break-up. You are going through withdrawal. After having a dose of love every day for years and years straight, this can be something that even rehab might not be able to fix. I’ve been thinking about this concept lately whenever I miss my boyfriend. He goes to a different college then I do, so we only get to see each other during the weekends. We met during the school year so for months I was very used to only seeing him once a week. Then the summer came, our first summer together, and we got to see each other every single day. I got extremely used to that, and when school started up again, it was very difficult for me. The first week without him, I cried nearly every day. Imagine a daily cocaine user now having to cut back to only once a week – somehow I feel like they would still be having an easier time than I did. As the weeks went by, I slowly, slowlyyyyy, got used to only having one dose of my lovebug a week. I still miss him every day though…
