“You’re just bouncing from being in heaven to being completely devastated, just lying on the floor crying.”Īfter years of repeated episodes and online sleuthing, Ashley finally found the term for what she was experiencing: limerence. “The highs and lows are so extreme that my friends are like, are you OK?” Ashley, who lives in Vancouver, tells Dazed. Each infatuation would last for around a year and a half – flooding her with a rollercoaster of uncontrollable emotions – before dramatically dissipating as quickly as they arrived. For the past 16 years of her life, Ashley would periodically become obsessed with another person.
Instead, she’s been working hard to overcome a lifelong reliance on something – or rather someone – else. Nothing else, no substance can give me that same euphoric feeling.”Īshley* isn’t addicted to alcohol, drugs or gambling, though she’s seen people compare her own affliction to these things in the past.
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