# It's Official! Love Makes You Crazy! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487 "2005-06-02T02:53:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/1 "2005-06-02T02:53:10Z")
[Brain scans prove it!](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/londoncuts/articles/18999713?source=Metro) > [@](#): > > Has someone you know started acting irrationally? Do their moods jump from euphoria to anger to anxiety? Such out-of-character behaviour could be a sign of psychosis. > > But, equally, it could be a sign they have fallen in love, say scientists who have produced the first brain scans of those struck by Cupid’s dart. And once again, science catches up to what folks already knew to be true. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/2 "2005-06-02T03:30:47Z")
In today’s other Love news, [the “hormone of love”](http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/), Oxytocin, [stimulates trusting behavour](http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=a72137e0-37a8-4279-abcc-0b415f8647ed). So not only does love make you crazy, it makes you a sucker. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/3 "2005-06-02T03:35:09Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > In today’s other Love news, [the “hormone of love”](http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/), Oxytocin, [stimulates trusting behavour](http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=a72137e0-37a8-4279-abcc-0b415f8647ed). > So not only does love make you crazy, it makes you a sucker. Hmm. Any online pharmacies selling this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/4 "2005-06-02T03:53:55Z")
Wow. I could have told you the same thing, but then again could have saved $20K had I listened to that advice. :sucks to be me: ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/5 "2005-06-02T04:00:52Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Wow. I could have told you the same thing, but then again could have saved $20K had I listened to that advice. :sucks to be me: And had you really been smart, you could have purveyed your experience into getting a government grant for $100K+ to study exactly _how_ love makes you crazy and thus made an $80K profit. Oh, wait. That’s probably not making you feel better, is it? Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/6 "2005-06-03T19:01:29Z")
Be Careful :dubious: Be Very Very Careful :rolleyes: Oxytocin is used mainly to stimulate or increase the production of milk so that you can breastfeed. :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/7 "2005-06-03T20:07:00Z")
And in other breaking news today, water has been discovered to be wet! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/8 "2005-06-03T20:26:08Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Be Careful :dubious: > Be Very Very Careful :rolleyes: > > Oxytocin is used mainly to stimulate or increase the production of milk so that you can breastfeed. :eek: :eek: :eek: Yeah, but if the East Germans found Oxytocin to be useful in [doping their olympic swim team](http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/content/full/43/7/1262), how dangerous can it really be? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-love-makes-you-crazy/306487/9 "2005-06-03T22:54:37Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Be Careful :dubious: > Be Very Very Careful :rolleyes: > > Oxytocin is used mainly to stimulate or increase the production of milk so that you can breastfeed. :eek: :eek: :eek: Well, I wasn’t planning on _taking it_. I thought it might be a safer alternative to the rooficolada. 😉