“Limerence can likely become the strongest kind of OCD and addiction that can be felt,” Wakin told me. “Although alcohol and gambling can consume you, casinos and liquor don’t have a life of their own. They don’t remind you that they are still alive. They don’t make you wonder what they’re doing when they’re not paying attention to you. So when you’re obsessed with another living person, the obsession is even stronger.”
