【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 　　我想在某種程度上，我讓自己有點瘋狂，因為我認為這才是愛一個人的方式。這一點都不奇怪，畢竟維基百科上顯示有8部電影、14首歌曲、兩張專輯和一本名為《瘋狂的愛》的小說?！　bout half an hour later, he came back toour room. We made up. We spent another mostly happy week traveling then, when I got home, I thought, That was so terrible and must be a real romance. I expected my first love to feel likemadness, and of course, it met that expectation very well. But loving someonelike that as if my entire wellbeing depended on him loving me back was notvery good for me or for him.　　大約半小時后，他回來了。我們和解了。我們又一起度過了快樂的一周，一起旅行。當我回到家，我想，那真是一段又可怕又美好的一段經(jīng)歷。這一定是一段真正的羅曼史。我期待我的初戀是瘋狂的，當然，我如愿以償了。但是愛一個人就像是我整個人的狀態(tài)感受都取決于他是否也愛我。這與我，與他而言都不是一件好事?！　ut I suspect this experience of love isnot that unusual. Most of us do feel a bit mad in the early stages of romanticlove. In fact, there is research to confirm that this is somewhatnormal,because, neurochemically speaking, romantic love and mental illness arenot that easily distinguished. This is true.　　但我懷疑這種愛的體驗并不是那么不尋常。在大多數(shù)人剛開始一段戀情時都感到有那么一點瘋狂。事實上，有研究證實這其實是正常的，因為從神經(jīng)化學的角度來說，浪漫的愛情和精神疾病并不是那么容易區(qū)分的?！　his study from 1999 used blood tests toconfirm that the serotonin levels of the newly in love very closely resembledthe serotonin levels of people who had been diagnosed with obsessivepulsivedisorder.　　1999年的這項研究通過血液測試證實，剛戀愛的人的血清素水平與被診斷為強迫癥的人的血清素水平非常相似?！　es, and low levels of serotonin are alsoassociated with seasonal affective disorder and depression. So there is someevidence that love is associated with changes to our moods and our there are other studies to confirm that most relationships begin this way.　　是的，低血清素水平也與季節(jié)性情緒失調(diào)和抑郁癥有關(guān)。所以有證據(jù)表明，愛與我們情緒和行為的變化有關(guān)。還有其他研究證實，大多數(shù)關(guān)系都是這樣開始的?！　esearchers believe that the low levels ofserotonin is correlated with obsessive thinking about the object of love, whichis like this feeling that someone has set up camp in your brain. And most of usfeel this way when we first fall in love. But the good news is, it doesntalways last that long usually from a few months to a couple of years.　　研究人員認為，血清素水平低與相思有關(guān)，就像有人在你的大腦中安營扎寨一樣。我們大多數(shù)人在第一次戀愛時都有這種感覺。但好消息是，它并不總是持續(xù)那么長時間通常從幾個月到幾年?！　hen I got back from my trip to SouthAmerica, I spent a lot of time alone in my room,checking my , desperate tohear from the guy I loved. I decided that if my friends could not understand mygrievous affliction, then I did not need their friendship. So I stopped hangingout with most of them. And it was probably the most unhappy year of my I think I felt like it was my job to be miserable, because if I could bemiserable, then I would prove how much I loved if I could prove it,then we would have to end up together eventually.　　當我從南美旅行回來后，我花了很多時間獨自呆在房間里，查看電子郵件，急切地想要收到我愛的人的來信。我決定，如果我的朋友不能理解我的痛苦，那么我就不需要他們的友誼。所以我不再和他們中的大多數(shù)出去玩了。那可能是我一生中最不快樂的一年。但我認為痛苦是我必須要經(jīng)歷的，因為如果我能感受到痛苦，我就能證明我有多愛他。如果我能證明這一點，我們最終會在一起?！　his is the real madness, because there isno cosmic rule that says that great suffering equals great reward, but we talkabout love as if this is true.　　這是真正的瘋狂，因為沒有宇宙法則說巨大的痛苦會換來同等的報酬，但我們談論愛情時的確是這樣的。　　Our experiences of love are both biologicaland cul