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What are some love disorders?

See also Attachment disorder. Erotomania. Love addiction. Love at first sight. Relationship obsessive–compulsive disorder. Stalking. Unrequited love. Yandere.

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Excessive desire to possess and protect another person

Obsessive love or obsessive love disorder (OLD) is a condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person, sometimes with an inability to accept failure or rejection. Symptoms include an inability to tolerate any time spent without that person, obsessive fantasies surrounding the person, and spending inordinate amounts of time seeking out, making, or looking at images of that person.[1]

Characteristics [ edit ]

Although obsessive love is not contained in the DSM-5 as a specific mental disorder, it can often accompany other mental illnesses.[2] Depending on the intensity of their attraction, obsessive lovers may feel entirely unable to restrain themselves from extreme behaviors such as acts of violence toward themselves or others. Obsessive love can have its roots in childhood trauma and may begin at first sight; it may persist indefinitely, sometimes requiring psychotherapy.[3] The disorder most commonly associated with obsessive love is borderline personality disorder. Other disorders that are most commonly associated with obsessive love include delusional disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and cluster B personality disorders.[4]

Psychology [ edit ]

Sigmund Freud considered that obsessive love might be underpinned by an unconscious feeling of hate for which it overcompensated - thereby explaining the sufferer's feeling of a need to protect the love object.[5] Later analysts saw obsessive love as driven more by narcissistic need, the preoccupation with the love-object offering defences against worries and depressive feelings;[6] while Jungians see it as rooted in the projection of the inner self onto another person.[7]

In culture [ edit ]

Marcel Proust dissected (his own style of) obsessive love in À la recherche du temps perdu.[8] Bollywood films such as Darr, Anjaam, and Dastak each portray the main villains as obsessive lovers. [9] You, a 2014 thriller novel by Caroline Kepnes portrays obsessive love disorder. The novel was adapted into the first season of the Lifetime and Netflix television series You.

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Which personality type is unstable?

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD). We can all experience difficulties with our relationships, self-image and emotions.

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What types of personality disorder are there?

Currently psychiatrists tend to use a system of diagnosis which identifies ten types of personality disorder. These are grouped into three categories.

Suspicious:

Emotional and impulsive:

Anxious:

Each personality disorder has its own set of diagnostic criteria. To get a specific diagnosis you must meet some of these criteria. The minimum amount you need to meet is different for different types, but it should always be more than one or two. If you meet criteria for more than one type this may be called mixed personality disorder. It is also possible to get a diagnosis without meeting the full criteria for a specific type. This is known as personality disorder not otherwise specified (PD-NOS) or personality disorder trait specified. A wide range of people may get the same diagnosis, despite having very different personalities and different individual experiences. Your experience of living with a personality disorder will be unique to you.