Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People? - Crappy Childhood Fairy - #935

Limerenance. I didn't even know that it was a word that existed until recently, and after doing a little bit of research, it seems to be maybe one of the hottest topics on the internet, especially something that doesn't even exist in the DSM yet. Uh what is it? Can you give an introduction to those people like me who have no idea that this is even a word.

Limerenance is this handy word for this thing that most people have experienced a little bit of and some people unfortunately have completely like lost their lost their happiness over. And it was the the phrase w the the word limerence was coined in the 70s. There was a a a psychologist named Dorothy Tenov and she was sort of referring to that Twitter pated falling in love feeling. But it's evolved to mean something much more than that. It's that feeling, but then all of a sudden it sort of goes into hyperdrive and becomes this addiction level obsession with another person who you can't be with generally, either because they're not into you, they're not available, or they don't even exist.

Like there are people who feel limerant about fictional characters. Right. Okay, so the the rabbit hole goes quite deep. You mentioned there that everybody has it in uh small doses.

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