Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many researchers use the concept of ‘love addiction’ as a shorthand for exploring maladaptive romances.Illustration: Rita Liu/The ...

Sex and love addiction is not an official psychiatric diagnosis. Instead, it is a colloquial (slang or informal) term used to describe a compulsive preoccupation with romantic relationships that ...

Love addicts don’t just fall—they plummet. If you’ve ever found yourself spiraling over someone you barely know, binge-texting, fantasizing about futures before the second date, or staying in toxic ...

People struggling with compulsive behavior around love and sex have long been the brunt of sleazy jokes and lurid misrepresentation. TV shows and movies use sad, so-called sex addicts sitting on ...

Jeremy Fall has been on a healing journey for years, publicly talking about mental health and his struggles with anxiety and depression. Now, the 34-year-old chef and entrepreneur is getting candid ...

Jeremy Fall has been on a healing journey for years, publicly talking about mental health and his struggles with anxiety and depression. Now, the 34-year-old chef and entrepreneur is getting candid ...

Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir, "All the Way to the River," chronicles her relationship with her best friend and partner, Rayya. The book explores themes of addiction, love, loss, and spirituality as the ...

We live in a world of fast and easy, social-media-fueled diagnosing and pathologizing. There’s an endless stream of popularized acronyms and misleading self-diagnostic memes that confuse and frustrate ...

In contemporary society, we are quick to pathologize our behaviors. We jokingly call our fondness for cleaning “OCD,” sometimes argue that “we’re all a little autistic,” and haphazardly label our ...

“Too much of a good thing is wonderful” —Mae West Romantic love has often been considered a type of addiction or even sickness. There is no doubt that love involves constant thinking about, and ...