Limerence, a recently resurfaced dating term, is a psychological condition that causes significant loss of productivity and emotional distress to sufferers who've formed unhealthy and obsessive attachments to the unavailable objections of their affections.
Catherine Prasifka is a novelist from Dublin. Her first novel, None of This Is Serious, was a bestseller. In January, she was appointed Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Her new novel This is How You Remember It is published by Canongate and is out now.
How an intense longing for a romantic connection can lead to a serious addiction. For most people, crushes come and go. But for others, the longing can last.