We wanted to express, in the novel, the weirdness of falling in love, its disorder and irrationality and danger.
He currently writing the follow-up, "The Codependency Cure: Recovering from Self-Love Deficit Disorder".
The film has all the elements of a teen movie: love triangles, eating disorders, cliquey girls.
For the Greeks, inventors of democracy and a people not amenable to being pushed around by despots, love was a disordering and thus preferably brief experience.
Debbie Gore's 11-year-old son, Joe, who has autistic spectrum disorder, loves going to his special school, but she fears his poor behaviour could become too much for his teachers.
In arguing that neurological illnesses become inseparable from the selves they inhabit, Hustvedt glosses over the situations and reactions of those who serve: the parents, spouses and siblings whose lives are transformed by tending to a loved one's disorder of mind or brain or both.
Other themes include friendship, body image, first love, suicide, eating disorders and sexuality.
I have spent several years wondering if my version of love is fundamentally disordered.
Apparently, before the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, love could cure severe mental illness.
It can be hard to acknowledge that something you do or say could be affecting your loved one's disorder.
