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How mental health affects the authenticity of love

I fell in love during a manic episode and now that I'm stable I don't know if the feelings were real or just brain chemistry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Altered brain states can generate genuine feelings that nonetheless lack the foundation for sustainable relationship.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Falling in love — the neuroscience and the phenomenology?”

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