Can we distinguish between romantic love, obsession, limerance and erotomania? Here I describe how intense and delusional "love" leads to stalking and dangerous states of mind.
The ordinary experience of romantic infatuation is intense but should be differentiated from erotomania.
Chasing the unattainable is something that we can all imagine, especially when that elusive object offers the promise of longed-for bliss and fulfillment. Classified in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual V as a subtype of delusional disorder, erotomania, or de Clérambault's syndrome, refers to the belief that someone is in love with us, when they are not, and continuing in this delusion, often through taking actions to contact that person.
The relationship between stalker and stalked is one that is far more nuanced than sometimes appreciated. The degrees of ambiguity are hard to bear in mind when prosecuting someone who has gone too far, overstepped essential, and threatened the object of their obsession or their family, whom they view as standing in their way.
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