Love Sickness?

[Aeolus21]

Okay this is going to sound a little bit funny, but have you guys ever felt "in love" with somebody during or after being ill?

It seems like whenever I feel sick or have been stricken with a fever, I somehow develop a crush on someone. This has happened many times in the course of my life and I can't seem to explain why that happens to me. Perhaps during sickness, there is more\less of a certain chemical being distributed in the body that help stimulate romantic feelings?

I don't know. I might just be the only one who's experienced this. Though if there is somebody who's physiology class they studied mentioned this, then please enlighten me on this!

[Mr. SmartyPants]

woah... I find that REALLY weird... hmm well i know that doesn't happen with me

[Syaoran]

I never realy get sick.....I mostly Brake my bones here and there.....or come home with a big gash on my arm or lag. So I can't realy say I have love sickness.

[Alice]

Possibly you feel very much as though you need someone. I haven't experienced it. That's just a guess.

[SilverHeaven]

i have felt something simular to that i make go away. and thats the end that for me. but that only happened when i was couple years younger

[Sakura15]

Whoa..that dosen't happen to me..when im sick I just feel awful lol.

[agasfas]

No I haven't thought about it... Perhaps like Alice said, you feel you need someone to take care of you or whatever. Or maybe it's all that alone time that really spurs a lot of thought.

I wouldn't say it's odd or anything because perhaps it's totally possible. We all have our little things that others may not understand

[steelbeliever]

hehe...this will sound wierd but that's how i met the guy i'm gonna marry...i was super sick a while back and he is one of my pals and sent me fourteen roses! the next time i saw him he proposed and i said YES! he he...that might not exactly be the same thing, but i was sure i wanted to marry hima nd i was still sick when it happened...

[Ashley]

That's called Florence Nightengale syndrome, I believe. It's quite common in medieval tales

[Mangafanatic]

You haven't been bitten by a radioactive spider lately, have you?

[mitsuki lover]

I seem only to have the ability to a)fall for girls who are fictional such as
Kagome,Flay and Mitsuki(anime)or Kes and Ezri Dax(Star Trek).
Alas I cannot say that I have had the privelege of getting that sick that I
fell for my nurse.
If I did 10 to 1 odds she would be around 5'5" tall,115 lbs.,blonde and
blue eyes and of Scots-Dutch ancestry!

[Locke]

I think its why soldiers ( or anyone else ^^;;) in movies fall in love with their nurse, they are in a weak state and like all the attention given to them. =D

...or somethign like that... curse you THE NOTEBOOK! >.>;;

[shooraijin]

That's called Florence Nightengale syndrome, I believe. It's quite common in medieval tales

I thought that was when you fell in love with someone *else* who's sick, not you falling in love with someone because *you're* sick.

Er, that didn't sound right. Oh well.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I guess the soldiers falling in love with their nurses would qualify ... got it.

[RoyalWing]

Once in the newspaper, they had report that compared women's (romantic) relationship experience and the chances each had of having a kind of heart disease. It was so odd, most married women = the less chances, then 'single' women had second less chances. The women who had divorced at the most chances of heart disease, followed very closely by the ones who had a husband but he died. (and there were others in between but I forgot, I'm sorry.) I don't know how true this is, but I think it's very odd.

And then, many people around me have said that in their experiences, when a husband or wife dies and they have been together very long, the husband/wife that remains will often die very soon, right after their loved one.

(I don't think this has anything to do with what you're speaking about, sorry...)

(p.s. The newspaper article was in the city newspaper, a normal one. Not the papers with the reports of aliens bringing to life woolly mammoths to invade Iceland, etc.)

[Sonic_13]

To be honest... I cant remember ever feeling compassion for anyone.

*breaks into song*

i was born in a small town
and i live in a small town
i'll probably die in a small town!


so to get to the point I've never met an interesting girl. Hopefully that will change one day but after witnessing all the romantic disasters in this "small town" I doubt I'll ever fall for anyone! =P sorry I can't be of any help =(

[Roy Mustang]

It seems like whenever I feel sick or have been stricken with a fever, I somehow develop a crush on someone. This has happened many times in the course of my life and I can't seem to explain why that happens to me. Perhaps during sickness, there is more\less of a certain chemical being distributed in the body that help stimulate romantic feelings?

I have had the love sickness, but I thought it was cooties!

At the time, I thought girls were, dirty, dirty, full of germs!

But that was when I was 10 and now I know they are, sweet, kind, loving and eat up your money!


I just found out that I have the Tenchi germ now!


Wingzero22

[Aeolus21]

That's called Florence Nightengale syndrome, I believe. It's quite common in medieval tales

Interesting. A syndrome when the patient falls in love with a nurse, or vice-versa (I guess it can go both ways). Whenever I think of that, I immediately think of the movie Back to the Future.

The effects I had (especially when I was my teens) is that the feeling hits you out of nowhere when you're sick. The girl that I've never had feelings for suddenly enters my mind, even though I didn't see her in person during my sickness. You know how your mind wonders when you feel ill, right? My guess is that such thoughts just 'appear' out of nowhere in a state of weariness.

I know some crushes happen when you're not sick, but it seems to be much easier to develop feelings when you're really out of it. ^_^

[c-girl]

I get sick when I'm anxious or stressed out.. >^^<; Maybe you just get anxious and in love and get sick..... I remember when I was deciding whether or not to go out with someone I got so stressed out that I felt sick.. Lol! >^.^<

[Sonic_13]

So messy! Romantic relationships break regular relationships in my opinion. I say just be friends with everyone! *frolics and throws flower pedals everywheres*

[Yumie]

Alas I cannot say that I have had the privelege of getting that sick that I
fell for my nurse.
If I did 10 to 1 odds she would be around 5'5" tall,115 lbs.,blonde and
blue eyes

5'5" and 115?!?!?! No WONDER you've never fallen in love with a real person, there's no real person out there who's that skinny! Ha ha ha, OK, maybe there are some girls like that, but not too many. Alas, I fear if you do meet her, you will soon discover that your beloved nurse is anorexic, . . . .

And no, I've never fallen in love with someone while I was sick. As a matter of fact I rarely ever get sick. I think I was sick . . . two times last year? And maybe once the year before that. The result of having a mother who makes you shove five different vitamins down your throat every morning, ha ha. As to your condition, though, maybe when you're sick you're just chemically unbalanced in some way or another. And when I say "chemically," I mean "hormonally", he he he. . .

[dragonshimmer]

Can't say I've had that experience. When I get ill, I want everyone to go away and leave me alone so I can take care of myself xD Love is the LAST thing on my mind. Have you had fevers when you experienced this?

[Aeolus21]

Have you had fevers when you experienced this?

Actually yes. Usually it's that warm feeling of having a fever that I think has something to do with what I have experienced in the past. Of course, not every fever of mine has resulted in any romantic feelings, but usually they came easier that way.

[dragonshimmer]

Actually yes. Usually it's that warm feeling of having a fever that I think has something to do with what I have experienced in the past. Of course, not every fever of mine has resulted in any romantic feelings, but usually they came easier that way.

Hmm...I wonder if it's the fever that messes up your thought process, maybe? Where's shoorajin? xD

[Sonic_13]

i remember having a fever years and years ago. I very very rarely get sick but when I do its pretty drastic. I was dancing around the house in my bathrobe screaming guns n roses songs. I barely remember doing it lol, i was pretty derranged.

[shooraijin]

Hmm...I wonder if it's the fever that messes up your thought process, maybe? Where's shoorajin? xD

Don't look at me. I'm not going to get in trouble by linking love and delirium

[mitsuki lover]

So I'm dimensionally challenged!I was never any good at math in any case.
Btw:As anyone else ever read Hemingway's A Farwell To Arms.This is a classic
case of Florence Nightengale syndrome.