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lovestruck
Being lovestruck means having mental and physical symptoms associated with falling in love: 'love-struck. It means to be hit by love...you are hit in your heart by the emotion of love'.〔Jennifer Overton, ''Snapshots of Autism'' (2003) p. 58〕
Historically, being lovestruck has been viewed as a short-lived mental illness brought on by the intense changes associated with romantic love. Avicenna, a Persian polymath, viewed obsession as the principal symptom and cause of romantic love sickness. This diagnosis has been out of favor since the humoral model was abandoned, and since the advent of modern scientific psychiatry.
==Metaphors==
The concept is associated with a set of metaphors attempting to convey the speed and intensity of the (mainly visual) process of 'falling in love instantly; placing great importance on the moment of being love-struck'.〔Richard Feldstein et al, ''Reading Seminar XI'' (1995) p. 28〕 Thus for example it has been described as 'like struck with a lightning bolt. The second that you see and meet the person, you are instantly in love'.〔(Urban dictionary )〕
Alternately, there is Cupid's arrow; whilst Uncle Toby uses an image from musketry: 'I am in love with Mrs Wadman, quoth my uncle Toby - She has left a ball here - added my uncle Toby - pointing to his breast'.〔Lawrence Sterne, ''Tristram Shandy'' (Penguin 1976) p. 554〕
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