Disparities In Relationships
Q1:
A) Thinking about love in terms of neurotransmitters can provide a biological context to the otherwise difficult to describe romantic state. This view can be beneficial for individuals that have intense feelings of love at the beginning of a relationship, but have difficulties keeping that drive as the relationship continues. While they are feeling the almost natural high of dopamine in the beginning of the relationship, they may not be able to have healthy “calmer experience of attachment” with oxytocin. The understanding of neurotransmitters can guide treatment modalities to help the client in their specific deficiencies. For an individual that is having difficulties with attachment, a specific modality that focuses on this area can …show more content…
Breakups cause a very depleting feeling that can cause many aspects of your life to suffer. To have a pill that provides relief for an individual to not go through THAT pain would be beneficial. It can help them function while transitioning smoothly out of a relationship. An individual would not have to suffer the very real pain of a heartbreak if a pill would exist that helped with the symptoms of withdrawal such as the ones for addiction. My last argument would be that if there was such a pill that would help with the withdrawal symptoms from substance abuse, would this even be a question? …Of course not. It could be hard to look a heartbreak like and addiction disorder but as the article illustrates, there are many commonalities.
B) Breakups are hard and while I have been in a relationship for a while, I remember having a very difficult time transitioning from my last relationship. The feelings of losing a part of yourself are very real. I had to go through grief period to allow time for emotional healing before even considering a new relationship. A pill to fast forward this transition period would have helped me fall out of love. I would have really appreciated something like that during that
A) Thinking about love in terms of neurotransmitters can provide a biological context to the otherwise difficult to describe romantic state. This view can be beneficial for individuals that have intense feelings of love at the beginning of a relationship, but have difficulties keeping that drive as the relationship continues. While they are feeling the almost natural high of dopamine in the beginning of the relationship, they may not be able to have healthy “calmer experience of attachment” with oxytocin. The understanding of neurotransmitters can guide treatment modalities to help the client in their specific deficiencies. For an individual that is having difficulties with attachment, a specific modality that focuses on this area can …show more content…
Breakups cause a very depleting feeling that can cause many aspects of your life to suffer. To have a pill that provides relief for an individual to not go through THAT pain would be beneficial. It can help them function while transitioning smoothly out of a relationship. An individual would not have to suffer the very real pain of a heartbreak if a pill would exist that helped with the symptoms of withdrawal such as the ones for addiction. My last argument would be that if there was such a pill that would help with the withdrawal symptoms from substance abuse, would this even be a question? …Of course not. It could be hard to look a heartbreak like and addiction disorder but as the article illustrates, there are many commonalities.
B) Breakups are hard and while I have been in a relationship for a while, I remember having a very difficult time transitioning from my last relationship. The feelings of losing a part of yourself are very real. I had to go through grief period to allow time for emotional healing before even considering a new relationship. A pill to fast forward this transition period would have helped me fall out of love. I would have really appreciated something like that during that