Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/health/psychology/31love.html

Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain

By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: May 31, 2005

New love can look for all the world like mental illness, a blend of mania, dementia and obsession that cuts people off from friends and family and prompts out-of-character behavior - compulsive phone calling, serenades, yelling from rooftops - that could almost be mistaken for psychosis.

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bedfull_o_books is resting quietly after her surgical procedure

I just left her room in Mount Auburn Hospital, where she is sleeping. She expects to be there until sometime tomorrow. I'll be bringing her home from the hospital.

She expects to be resting at home for a week after that.

The procedure went well, and she is much less uncomfortable than she expected to be.