What’s better than falling inlove?
The sun is a little brighter, yourcoffeetastesa little better, and nothing can get you down.
Oh, you hit my car when you were parallel parking?
I’ve been meaning to take it in for an oil change anyways!
When you’re falling in love, nearly anything can be forgiven.
Life just feels too good when you’ve got a special someone in your life!
But while that euphoric, loving feeling is amazing, it’s also exhausting.
Our brains are releasing a flood ofnew hormonesmaking us feelhappy,anxious, and sometimes just downright bonkers.
Oftentimes our rational minds can hardly keep up with the racing thoughts and sweaty palms.
It’s important to remember that a lot of what we’re feeling is just our biology.
So don’t worry you’re not nearly as needy as you’re feeling right now.
Here are just a few of the new feelings you’re probably experiencing.
Want to know another group of people who have low serotonin?Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
This helps explain why you might’t help but overanalyze every text you get.
Don’t worry, though.
You won’t be like this forever.
As your relationship deepens, your brain returns to itsnormal levels.
But before then, you could start feeling dizzy, too.
“They keep your senses extra alert and give us the urge to bond and attach.
Psychologist Deborah Khoshaba, Psy.D.
“While decreased testosterone levels in men make them more emotional and receptive at this time.”
These hormonal changes make women feel more sexual and men more empathetic.
This is a recipe for both sides quickly becoming obsessed with each other.
A 2005studylooked at the brains of couples falling in love.
When you’re in love, you feel butterflies
We’ve all felt those butterflies before.
Immediately you feel ecstatic, nervous, and crazy.
And you probably feel like your stomach does flips.
Well, there is actually a physical reason for this feeling.
When we’re falling in love, our brains releaseoxytocin and cortisol.
Oxytocin is a loving, feel-good hormone, and cortisol is astresshormone.
When the cortisol enters our bloodstream, it causes theblood vessels around our gut to constrict.
This constricting sensation causes nausea or “butterflies.”
But there’s more.
They soon found that falling in love made the women’s bodies produce more of the protein interferon.
“Falling in love is linked with up-regulation of interferon,” the researchers noted.
“This is consistent with … innate immune responses toviral infection.”
Hm, now that gives a whole new meaning to the term “lovesick,” doesn’t it?
“Therefore, your body changes quickly with the emotion of love,” Marsden went on.
However, you may feel more than just simply well or content.
Yep, love might just make you feel high.
Ho revealed that your heartbeat may quicken in the same way it does when running on a treadmill.
For the average, healthy individual, this is nothing to worry about.
Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality throw in, toldCNN Health.
The expert explained that the stress hormone norepinephrine is the likely cause.
Nevertheless, stress hormones do more than just bring on physical responses.
Cortisol the other stress hormone released when falling in love can also contribute to lowering your stress level.
According to a 2008 study conducted by researchers at Bringham Young University, signs point to yes.
“There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage,” Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad toldScienceDaily.
While showing the participants the pictures, the researchers used a gear that caused “mild pain.”
Meanwhile, the participants' brains were also scanned.
Psychologist Deborah Khoshaba, Psy.D.
toldPsychology Todaythat, during this time, we can easily start to lose ourselves.
“You are adding a dating relationship to your normal, busyroutine,” she said.
Khoshaba explained that we feel a new sense of vulnerability at the beginning of a relationship.
“This process can be threatening and make you feel unsafe.”
She recommends following a few rules.
First, keep your normal schedule, and double-check to take care of yourself.
When anxious thoughts put in your mind, take a stab at look at them objectively.
… You want to build an authentic relationship attachment, rather than one based on fantasy alone.”
What’s going on when you fall out of love?
What’s going on then?
