If Love Was Covered By the News Like Drugs Are

A widespread behavioral infection has been spreading among the youth and adults alike. It goes by the name love — also known as eros — and has been linked to uncontrolled and often dangerous behaviour.

When someone comes under this behavioural spell is hard to predict their actions. Look for signs of excessive sweat, obsessive behaviour, stomach crumbs (also known as butterflies), tremors, lack of concentration and loss of weight. Experts warn that it can also trigger insomnia, severe headaches and cognitive deficits.
 

Perhaps the most worrying part of this “love” phenomenon is that it has become widely accepted. Hollywood seems to have embraced this trend, often featuring stories that incorporate love and betrayal, with tragic endings each time. One can imagine how this madness influences a young mind that seeks excitement in life.

"The brain’s physiology gets rewired", a health official stated. "There is no control over one’s thoughts and actions and it is extremely hard to get treatment". Many other researchers have identified love to be directly linked to domestic abuse, sexual assault and violent crimes.

Only the past year 670 people committed suicide because they had been heartbroken while many others are under investigation for murder. The world remains unable to handle this massive epidemic.
 

Public officials suggest that love-related injuries cause more than 1.000.000 deaths each year, not accounting for the longterm detrimental effects it can have to one’s psychological state. Excessive or “mad love” is believed to be the leading cause of injury between the ages of 15 to 25.

The cause of the problem seems to be directly linked with our school system. Children are taught the story of Romeo & Juliet, a tragic story where two teens aged 14 and 17 fall in love for three days and cause six deaths, including their own. This piece of literature is celebrated in our culture and one can imagine how it can affect those who experience love at such a tender age.

Teachers from various districts across the country have also noticed that an increasing number of teenage girls have stopped paying attention to class and are instead drawing hearts with the name of their crash. This results to a decreased academic performance that can seriously limit their chances for entering college. Some reports have even found love-stricken college students quitting their studies and engaging in unprotected coetus, which results in a spread of deadly STD’s.
 

The horror of this behavioral infection becomes even greater when one expresses love for their country or religion. The well documented effects of decreased logic and simple reasoning seem to become exponentially amplified when love is applied en masse. A Cambridge psychologist stated that most armed conflicts around the world are caused by people expressing love to either a person or an ideology.

No other mentally altering substance comes close to the staggering fatalities of the “love” phenomenon. Cocaine, a drug closely resembling the effect of love, has 5 times less death related causes. Heroin, considered one of the most dangerous drugs in the market, is linked to only a fraction of deaths in comparison to love.

We owe to take responsibility and guide future generations away from the ill effects of this behavioural madness. A recent survey has showed that nearly all marriages are a result of this illness, with more than 60% resulting in divorce. More than half of people previously fallen in love now hate their ex lovers, inflicting them with long term trauma that compromises future relationships.
 

Perhaps the most detrimental effect of love inflicts children who see their homes broken, traumatised for life, unable to withhold stable relationships themselves. What will it take for us as a society to stand against this widening epidemic?

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Love impacts the human physiology much like every other drug — legal or illegal. Public officials and lawmakers with the approval of the public shape public opinion, distort perception and create unreasonable biases for concepts that are not any more harmful than everything else around us.

News and media outlets are shaped by us. The information we are fed is especially designed to reinforce our own biases and fears. We are drawn to this form of sensational communication because we refuse to take responsibility for our actions. It doesn't make mich of a difference whether we talk about drugs, terrorism or even love. The only thing that changes is the narrative we choose to recite to ourselves.

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