Love Cures People-both The Ones Who Give It

What are some real life examples of "love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it"?

I don't have a real life example better than mine. Probably, it's time to open up a bit about my personal life on this medium, something I had successfully resisted till now.You know in real life, the violins don't play when you look at your significant other. You'd probably know that already. What you might not know is how love heals you in magical ways you've not yet experienced.I'm 26 years young. Yep. I don't consider myself old. I love growing up but still carry the heart of a child. A heart not just on my sleeves, but practically on my palm. It's all out for everyone to see.Logic says, the men that are suitable for me (absolutely as per my opinion, I do know that age is just a number) would probably fall into the age group of 25–30 years.Now tell me, what do you expect out of a well lived life of two human beings, out in this big, sometimes bad world? Squeaky clean past, with adventures, happy moments and great achievements? Let me poke your pretty bubble a bit. No. A big huge no.Two adults at this age come with a past. Not necessarily baggage. But with misadventures, sad moments and terrible failures. Thoughts that haunt them. And insecurities that bite them.But sometimes, the cupid plays it role, along with some funny hormones and you fall in love. Or that is what you'd believe.That one person, your person, will run soft fingers on your wounds and trust me, it won't hurt. You'll cry. Tears of sorrow, sometimes guilt, for people you've left behind and for relationships that didn't turn out the way they could. But, you'll be relieved.Of being vulnerable with someone and trusting they won't hurt.I'm a woman of few words and I rarely write personal stories. But trust my words.One day you'll meet that one person who'll make you melt in their arms. And that embrace would be your new home.Not weak in your knees. But strong on your feet.That's how adults love.That's how love is supposed to be.Rising for love when falling in love.

Can love cure depression?

Yes. Love can cure depression. But it’s not the romantic love that most people associate love with.If people understood that love is much more than dating, watching movies, grabbing a pop corn and sex, then a lot of problem in society could be resolved.In fact, most romantic partners fail to understand what depression is and choose to walk out. I call them ‘good times lovers’.Love here could be from anyone, even if it is from the same gender and age is immaterial.All they needed is a compassionate soul, which most people are lacking in this materialistic society.People have become self-absorbed. It’s all about them. The reason people suffering from depression cut off from people is that they don’t find anyone just to hear them out for few minutes.Sometimes, all it takes is a 10 minute conversation about life, the plan for the day, few compliments for the person suffering from depression to feel motivated to get up from bed and do whatever they are meant to be doing.Someone just needs to hold their hand, especially the elderly for few minutes and say ‘You will be fine’. Folks around the person in depression must ensure that they are not left alone for a long time.You will have their gratitude for life.However, as everyone else mentioned, the only person who can come out of depression is the person himself/herself.Having someone in your life who loves you without selfish reason and wishes that you come out of this ‘black hole’ sooner only makes it a bit easier.

Can love cure mental illnesses?

That all depends on how you define “love” or “mental illness”.Is “love” a ‘feeling’? An ‘experience’? An ‘action’ or behavioral paradigm?Is “mental illness” a set of ‘symptoms’? A problem to fix? A perspective of natural phenomena?Love as a feeling, experience, or behavior can all potentially “cure” mental illness as a set of ‘symptoms’, sometimes potentially cure mental illness as a problem to fix, and natural phenomena cannot be ‘cured’, though love can make them more personally functional.There are two things to understand:Firstly, that there is no known physical disorder to “mental illness”. It is called “mental illness” because we have no idea what is causing the experiences at hand, but assume it is ‘like an illness’ because some people feel the outcomes are undesirable, debilitating, disabling, or even life-threatening.Secondly, love (whether described as a feeling, experience, action, or behavioral paradigm), is just as physical and psychological as any “mental illness”. There is not a failure for their domains to overlap. What matters is how they can interact, and what is causing the experiences labeled as “love” or “mental illness” in the first place.So, it would be inappropriate (and probably daft) to suggest to someone who is struggling that “they just need love”. That is too vague, and comes off as both dismissive and ignorant. Love, like any other idea, is specific, and has applications. It is not without both physical and abstract consequence, and application usually entails specificity or directionality.Love can ���cure mental illness”, but only insofar as you can say the same thing about diet, exercise, therapy, art, taking drugs, making friends, circumnavigating the globe, raising racing pigeons, or spending a straight year sporting a shaved head. Each person and experience in life involves a unique set of variables such that suggesting any route as “the best idea” requires massive assumptions and some degree of generalization.Sometimes love is “the answer”, sometimes it is only one part of a solution, and sometimes love is already present and something more is still called for.What is clear, though, is that all methods of recovery, self-regard, and wellness can benefit from love, and properly applying love can better enable all the other pieces to come together.

Can true love cure existential loneliness?

Existential loneliness may or may nor be cured by love.It can be cured by assigning purposeful meanings to your life constantly - meanings that you believe in and which require you to work towards goals that help you attain that meaning."True love" as most people call it/ refer to it probably helps in assigning meanings by bypassing our boundedly rational minds, making use of our powerful emotional undercurrent.To a thinking and (boundedly) rational brain, sometimes no assigned meaning seems to be defensible in light of existential loneliness. True love makes use of our emotional being and bypasses this type of thinking and automatically assigns certain meanings. But I would not bank on it to keep providing you with meaning throughout your life.What can help (more than true love) is having meanings and goals in your life that are driven by empathy towards humanity in general - goals that when achieved make things slightly better for everyone for e.g., goals that keep you occupied and productive, that are not destructive or overly selfish .... silly but plausible examples could be being a nurse, an educator, even a person who designs a website that helps people in some way etc ... anything that makes the world better (I would say being an earnest banker too ... but it's just such a maligned though essential profession that most people think that an "earnest banker" is an oxymoron :) ).Ultimately, if we were not boundedly rational, we would stop feeling existentially lonely. We would see how everyone is connected to everyone else and how, though we are insignificant specks (on the scale of the universe) we are in some sense the universe itself observing itself and wondering about itself (!). But that's all easy to conceptualize but difficult to actualize.Having said that, intense companionship in any form (marriage, live in, open relationship, close friends etc) do help one get over loneliness of the more normal kind for sure (which itself is an emotional thing) ... but existential loneliness is a different beast altogether.