COMMON MENTAL DISORDERS

CAUSED BY LOVE TO SELECTED

STUDENTS FROM FIDELIS SENIOR HIGH

A Collaborative Thesis

Presented to the Faculty & Panel of Oral Examinees

Fidelis Senior High School

Tanauan City

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

of Grade 11-Humanities and Social Sciences

By:

Alboreda, Lovelyn J.

Ariola, Cindy P.

Bonde, Joubhen Joyce A.

Odiongan, Katherine F.

Olivar. Donalyn M.

Pulgado, Ma. Glenice M.

Villegas, Sherina C.

Poyaoan, Jerson C.

March 2017
 CHAPTER I

PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

INTRODUCTION

Love may bring you happiness but it has a consequence being hurt anytime you
are willing to five up everything. Love is defined as a profound and caring affection
towards another. It is an intense attraction that someone feels towards another person.
Everybody needs to be loved to feel security on his own self as well as to feel the
fulfillment of his own needs. It is very overwhelming to feel loved by someone else. A
persons perspective in life may change when he falls in love. His mindset, thinking and
goals in life may also change once they feel it. Every bad or even worse things can be
turned into something beautiful if one is in love.

Based on the book of John Lee which is The Colors of Love, he suggested that
there are three primary styles of love. These three styles of love are: Eros: The term Eros
comes from the Greek word meaning "passionate" or "erotic." He suggested that this type
of love involves both physical and emotional passion. Ludos: Ludos comes from the
Greek word meaning "game." This form of love is conceived as playful and fun, but not
necessarily serious. Those who exhibit this form of love are not ready for commitment
and are wary of too much intimacy. Storge: Storge comes from the Greek term meaning
"natural affection." This type of love can also develop out of friendship where people
who share interests and commitments gradually develop affection for one another.

They say that love is a choice. If you choose to fall in love, you must be willing to
take the risk. But what if this chance that you choose to take the risk is the reason why
you break into pieces? With the given positive facts about love, it also has negative
effects on a person specifically in terms of their thinking if they fail to receive the
expected return for the love they feel towards a person that may lead them on suffering
from mental disorders.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

According to Plato, love is a serious mental disease.

As a matter of fact, lovesickness leads to an informal distress that describes

negative feelings associated with rejection, unreturned love or the absence of a loved one.
It can manifest as physical as well as mental symptoms. It is not to be confused with the
condition of being love struck, which refers to the physical and mental symptoms
associated with falling in love. Love can exist in many forms; however, there is one
manifestation of love that seems to have fascinated humanity since the dawn of recorded
history.

Love is deeply biological. It pervades every aspect of our lives and has inspired
countless works of art. Love also has a profound effect on our mental and physical state.
A broken heart' or a failed relationship can have disastrous effects; bereavement disrupts
human physiology and might even precipitate death. Without loving relationships,
humans fail to flourish, even if all of their other basic needs are met.

As such, love is clearly not just' an emotion; it is a biological process that is both
dynamic and bidirectional in several dimensions. Social interactions between individuals,
for example, trigger cognitive and physiological processes that influence emotional and
mental states. Similarly, the maintenance of loving relationships requires constant
feedback through sensory and cognitive systems; the body seeks love and responds
constantly to interaction with loved ones or to the absence of such interaction. Although
evidence exists for the healing power of love, it is only recently that science has turned its
attention to providing a physiological explanation.

Love can be classified as Agape, Eros, Ludus, Mania and Storge. Each
classifications of love can create an intimate relationship between young adolescence in
this generation. These classification of love vary from one person to another, male or
female whether in a relationship, had been in a relationship, never been in a relationship
but think they are in a relationship with someone. Thus, what particular kind of love can
cause eating disorder, sleeping disorder and Philophobia among people nowadays is the
dominant question.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

To the Fidelis Senior High School Students. The researchs goal is designed to
help students improve maturity in terms of their behaviour on the effects of love on
education, career and emotions. The study of love and mental illness can be a way for us
to know the negative effects of love on ones life. Showing the ways, cause and effect of
the study can also enhance everyones knowledge on how love can affect our
psychological well-being. This goal can be achieved through implementation and
teaching about mental illness, psychological well-being and disorders causing love. The
output of this study is a source material that everyone can use as guide in life.

This study is important because much research has examined changes in

relationships that already exist or relationship beliefs, but have not examined ideas about
falling in love and specifically the idea of perceived control or destiny regarding love.
This research is also important in helping to understand which relationship attitudes and
beliefs lead to better developmental outcomes.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The purpose of this study is to investigate the common mental disorders of

students cause by love because we all know that in this generation, love became one of
the enemy of students that can distract them.

Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:

1. Why do students often choose to be in a relationship even if the result is to be

broken?
2. What are the definitions of eating disorders, sleeping disorders, and Philophobia?
 3. Is there a significant relationship between love and mental disorders such as the
following:
a. Eating disorder;
b. Sleeping disorder and;
c. Philophobia?
4. What gender of the students most experience to become heartbroken?
5. What kinds of love can cause mental disorders?
6. Can emotions really control our mind when love is being discussed?

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Reasons why students often choose to be in

a relationship even if the result is to be
broken.

Gender
Mental Disorders
A. Eating Disorders- abnormal or disturbed
eating habits.
B. Sleeping Disorders- medical disorder of the
sleep patterns of a person.
C. Philophobia- fear of falling in love or
Kinds of Love emotional attachment.
a) Agape
b) Pragma
c) Eros
d) Storge
e) Mania
f) Ludus

Emotion Mind

Figure. 1

The researchers had conducted the following figure to explain in tentative

explanation of the phenomenon or problem and serves as the basis for the formulation
research hypothesis. It also demonstrate the problems and find a solution.
 The researchers also conducted this research to show; what was the reason behind
choosing love even if it will break their hearts that was connected in the possibility that
they can have mental disorders such as eating disorder, sleeping disorder and a
Philophobia. This problem is all about the researchers study, they want to prove that love
is associated with mental illness.

The gender was connected to the reasons why students often choose to be in a relationship
even if the result is to be broken. It is one of the researchers tools to identify which gender
most experienced heartbreak.
It also explain that kinds of love have a relation to different kinds of mental
disorders. This problem shows the researchers main study and this relation can help them
being a researcher to find out the truth.

And the last part as you can see that mind and emotion was separated because it
was not connected with each other so the researchers will answer it in other way.

HYPOTHESES

In this research, the researchers do have some achievable responses and listed all
the possible answers to the questions written on the statement of the problem.

1. In this situation, perhaps they choose to be in love because they thought love
can make them happy. Student also thought that it may be an inspiration to
them. Even the consequence is to be hurt the most important was they
experience being in love and to be love by someone whos completely into
them. Some of them thought that love can replace the missing pieces of them,
thats the reason why they are living right now. In some instances they can get
the satisfaction they wanted for the long time or maybe they were just doing it
because its prevalent.
2. The definition of eating disorders are characterized by persistent disturbance
of eating that result in altered consumption or absorption of food and
significantly impair physical health or psychological functioning. While the
sleeping disorders is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or
 animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal
physical, mental, social and emotional function. And Philophobia is the fear of
falling in love or emotional attachment.
3. Yes, because if teenagers love somebody too much they became obsess and
crazy about their loved ones. Because of their obsessions, they think them too
much that can lead them in mental disorders. After affecting the heart it goes
to our minds. Thats how love can manipulate teenagers. Love is most
powerful gun of us. When it arises too much, even if your mind cant handle it
and yourself will be the target.
4. When it comes to suffering from a broken heart, we all have to go through the
ups and downs of an emotional rollercoaster equally, both men and women.
The common belief, women have bigger support system because they deal our
innermost thought unlike in men. Men is not open when it comes in
expressing what they really feel about the situation. We cant officially say
which gender most experiencing it because it depends to what situation they
got into, how painful it was and how can they deal with it. Men and women
were equal in terms of love, they can both be hurt, they can both be loved and
they can be both suffer in different ways.
5. The researchers can say it was Ludus, because it is flirtatious and teasing kind
of love. Its a child-like and fun kind of love. If you think about it; this
generation would love Ludus more than other kinds of love. As you can see, it
already stated that it was a child-like, its all about making fun of it, messing
with love but start being reading what love can do to you.
6. Apparently yes, when you really love someone you will forgetting to think
before you make a decisions. It was also based on what we see and what we
hear in our surroundings. Mind controls everything but when love heats you,
love became more powerful than our mind. In love, you cant see how
miserable it was, and how harmful it was. You cant totally think if your
drowning with love, the only thing you can do is ask for help. Help to escape
in this kind of dejected one.

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

 The researchers study does not include the students of FAITH Catholic School.
The selected students from FIDELIS Senior High school are the researchers respondents.
There would be fifty (50) selected male students and fifty (50) selected female students.
That has a total of one hundred (100) selected students. The researchers choose these
students to be their respondents because they know that in this era many of them can
relate in their study.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

These are the list of important words that each and every one of you may
encounter in this research. The researchers have given them definition so that you may
understand what they mean.

Agape. It is the highest form of love, charity; the love of God for man and of man for
God.

Bereavement. Defined as a period of mourning after a loss, especially after the death of a
loved one.

Eros. It comes from the Greek word meaning "passionate" or "erotic.

Love. State as variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from
interpersonal affection.

Love struck. Describes as having mental and physical symptoms associated with falling
in love.

Ludus. Interpreted as the flirtatious and teasing kind of love, the love mostly
accompanied by dancing or laughter.

Mania. It is a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or a state of
heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with liability of
affect.

Mental illness. Is a diagnosis by a mental health professional of a behavioral or mental

pattern that may cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life.
Pragma. Defined as everlasting love between a married couples which develops over a
long period of time.

Storge. A love that parents naturally feel for children; love that knows forgiveness,
acceptance, and sacrifice.
 CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE & STUDIES

This chapter presents different authoritative views and research studies related to
the present studies. It includes the related literature as well as the related studies coming
from primary and secondary sources. This study will give the researchers more insights,
knowledge and learning for its expansion and completions on hand.

RELATED LITERATURE

These are the references from the book which helps the researchers to site
evidences that are related from their studies.

According to Tallis, F. (2007), Love is a Mental Illness. In his book entitled "Love
Sick". This mental illness has been recognized and recorded in papyrus by early
Egyptians thousands of years ago.

Love starts off with joyfulness but it's a joy that has the inevitable sadness
attached to it. The highs and lows of love sickness is same as that of a manic depression -
a mental illness that is now fully recognized and has some effective remedy for it.
Although love sickness is no longer recognized as an illness - so goes Tallis arguments, it
has symptoms that can be readily diagnosed as a mental illness. Love Sickness can kill -
from jumping off a cliff due to unrequited love to lovers committing suicide. Love make
us irrational. It unsettles us. Turns our world's upside down. Therefore this Illness needs a
ready diagnoses and needs to be treated.

According to Bezzina, A (2009), the voluminous reactions to her last blog, left her
with no other choice but to take a step back and reflect.

Plato said that love is a grave mental disease and, if youve ever been in love you
would probably agree with him. When you fall in love your heart is wide open which
means that someone can get inside and mess it all up. The feeling is unsurprisingly very
similar to being addicted to heroin, in fact scientists have discovered that the same
chemical process that takes place with drug addiction, takes place when we fall in love.

According to Sharma, S. (2006), the period of adolescence is the most trying

period in the development of human being. The period of adolescence starts from
thirteenth year and last at twenty year of childs age during this period the individual
confronts with growing severe difficulties and manifests conditions symptomatic of great
emotional tensions, which create mental disorders. During this period some individual
develop conditions symptomatic of almost complete defeat.

According to Sharma, S. (2006), many adolescents encounter their greatest

emotional difficulties in trying to establish satisfactory social relationships with members
of the opposite sex. Their concern with status and prestige very often centers on dating,
going steady, and having a boy (or girl) friend.

Yet dating is no easy matter for most young people. Many are handicapped by
their feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. They lack confidence in themselves and feel
unworthy an affection. In addition, they suffer from a lack of social skills, which makes
the problem of teen-age companionship more difficult.

An adolescent boy with an inferiority complex may be too bashful and timid to
socialize with girls because of the fear that he will not please them or that they will not
like him. Similarly, an adolescent girl who feels insecure may be afraid that something
will happen to her when she is out with a boy, and therefore refrain from socializing with
boys. Observation of unhappy relationships in his parents marital life, as well as
subjection to its emotional episodes, may cause the adolescent to unconsciously avoid
members of the opposite sex.

RELATED STUDIES

These are the references from the internet that can help the researchers to site
some evidences to prove their studies.
 According to Valas, M., MD (2015), Love has been defined in various ways.
From a deep feeling of affection, to the embodiment of virtues that always protects,
trusts, hopes, and perseveres. And for centuries, humans have found ways to celebrate the
existence of love.

Now, with a better understanding of the biology and chemistry of love, science
has begun to recognize that there are health benefits as well. Helping our patients
understand the value and importance of maintain loving relationships may help them to
benefit from loves positive effects on mental health.

In the book, A General Theory of Love (2001), a trio of psychiatry professors,

Thomas Lewis, MD, Fari Amini, MD and Richard Lannon, MD, describe it in the
following way: Our nervous systems are not separate or self-contained; beginning in
earliest childhood, the areas of our brain identified as the limbic system (hippocampus,
amygdala, anterior thalamic nuclei, and limbic cortex) is affected by those closest to us
(limbic resonance) and synchronizes with them (limbic regulation) in a way that has
profound implications for personality and lifelong emotional health.

Mahatma Ghandi once wrote, Where there is love there is life. Loving and
stable relationships can help to improve a person's ability to manage stress and can help
to decrease anxiety and depression. We are all social creatures. Therefore, as were
provide mental health treatment, let us be mindful to evaluate our patient's level of social
connectedness, and always encourage them to develop and nurture stable and loving
relationships.

According to Greenberg, M, Ph.D (2011), an unexpected and unwanted breakup

can cause considerable psychological distress. You may feel as if you have been kicked in
the stomach or blindsided and knocked down. Feelings of rejection and self-doubt are
common, as is the feeling of being stuck and unable to let go, even when one wants to.
Friends and family may push you to get over it and move on, yet brain research suggests
this can be very difficult to do, at least in the first few months.
 The research on relationship breakups gives us some clues as to why these events
are so subjectively painful. Studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
brain scans show activity in several specific brain areas when rejected individuals see
pictures of their ex-partners. Researcher Edward Smith, a cognitive neuroscientist at
Columbia University and his colleagues put out fliers in Manhattan and ads on social
networking sites to recruit participants who had experienced an unwanted breakup in the
last six months. Using fMRI scans, the researchers assessed which brain areas lit up when
participants looked at pictures of their ex-partners and simultaneously thought about
experiences they had shared together. They compared this to when participants looked at
pictures of a friend and were exposed to pain via a hot probe on the arm. The scientists
found that the same parts of the brain lit up when individuals looked at the partner
pictures or experienced physical pain, but not when they looked at the friend pictures.
These brain regions, including the insula and anterior cingulate cortex are known to be
associated with pain experience.

Our brains appear to process relationship breakups similarly to physical pain.

There may be an evolutionary reason for this. The function of pain is to alert the person
to physical danger or harm so she can take protective action. In the animal kingdom,
one's chances of avoiding predators are much higher as part of a group than alone,
therefore social rejection may have been an actual threat to physical survival for our early
ancestors. If this is the case, it might partially explain how difficult it is for many people
to let go of the ex-partner and move on.

People who have recently been rejected by their partners often develop obsessive
thinking. They may ruminate persistently about the ex-partner, how they are feeling,
whether they are missing the relationship, and so on. These thoughts or feelings of loss
may be triggered by places they used to go to together, people they used to hang out with,
holidays, and everyday rituals that were shared. In this sense, processing a breakup is a
bit like dealing with a trauma. The person cycles through periods of avoiding the
emotional pain and being able to distract herself, and periods of being flooded by intense
feelings and obsessive thoughts. There also seems to be a gender difference, in that men
are more likely to distract and avoid feelings, and women more likely to obsess and
ruminate. This may be because women have been socialized to take more responsibility
for relationships, leading to more time spent thinking about what went wrong or what
they could have done differently.

Recent research provides some suggestion that there may be physiological basis
to these "cravings" for the ex-partner. Brown, L, Ph.D. (2011), a Professor in the
Department of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her colleagues used
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to recorded the brain activity of 15
college-age adults who had experienced a recent unwanted breakup and reported still
feeling love for the ex-partner. Upon viewing photographs of their former partners, there
was activity in the ventral tegmental area, the nucleus accumbens and
orbitofrontal/prefrontal cortex. These areas are associated with reward and motivation,
specifically, the release of dopamine that is also seen in drug addiction. Therefore, people
may experience cravings for their ex-partner similarly to the way addicts crave a drug
they are withdrawing from. This can lead to intense distress and physiological as well as
psychological discomfort.

One issue with these fMRI studies is that they tend to use a small number of
people who respond to advertisements for people who haven't gotten over their ex-
partners. We don't know if these people are representative of the average person who goes
through a breakup, or whether they answer the ads because they are especially distressed.
This needs to be determined in future research. Despite the short-term pain of a breakup,
longer term findings indicate that most young people are resilient and recover. College
students report feeling significantly less distressed about the breakup after about 10
weeks. Also, other studies have shown brain activity in the craving centers decreased as
more time passed since the breakup.

According to Anon (2014), love is a many-splendored thing! Love is also the

reason you arent getting a good nights sleep, but we dont want to think that there could
be a downside to falling in love. Love is the reason for living. Who needs sleep when you
are feeling this good? However, too many sleepless nights, no matter how good you feel,
can cause problems during the times you and your partner are not wrapped in a euphoric
love quilt.

Love can make you sick wonderfully sick. You cant eat, you cant concentrate,
you feel shaky, and maybe even a little nauseous, but all the while, you cant stop
smiling. Love can also make you feel more awake than youve ever felt in your entire
life. For ones, you dont want to close your eyes; you dont want to fall asleep, cause
you dont want to miss a thing. But, instead of breaking into an Aerosmith song, lets talk
about how falling in love can have physical manifestations that can lead to sleepless
nights and insomnia.

When we are falling in love, the brain releases crazy amounts of dopamine that
give you an instant, speedy high. Because it is a good feeling, you ignore the fact that you
are completely depriving yourself of sleep sleep that you need to carry you through
those excruciating hours without your new love, where your boss is demanding and there
are real life responsibilities.

Love doesnt have to be coherent or structured or organized. When you are in

love, you just feel it; theres no need to concentrate on anything else besides being in love
and gazing into your lovers eyes. While you are crystal clear on the love you feel, you
are unable to focus on anything else. Again, its the excess dopamine thats giving you
tunnel vision. If you have the luxury of locking yourself away with your lover until you
are no longer crazy in love, then you should do it, because quite frankly, you are a danger
to yourself and others. Try not to operate heavy machinery or drive during the early
stages of love.

The early stages of love can be completely debilitating. For some, the symptoms
are worse than others. We know you dont want to close your eyes and fall asleep, but for
the sake of every other aspect of your life, you should try to get the recommended hours
of sleep, even if it means eight hours away from your love.
 According to Karges, C. et.al, (2017), relationships are the core of human
existence. Whether it is with family, friends, or a significant other, healthy, positive
relationships have the potential to give us secure foundations from which to grow and
thrive. While relationships require effort and work from all parties involved to continue
flourishing, the benefits that are reaped are countless.

Eating disorders often exist as the antithesis to relationships, consuming an

individual with negative thoughts and behaviors that only garner destruction. As an
eating disorder develops and progresses further, it often takes the place of wholesome
relationships that may have once existed in ones life. Typically, as an eating disorder
grows stronger within a person, relationships with family members and loved ones
become strained and gradually diminish.

Eating disorders, by nature, are a mental illness characterized by isolation and

separation. On the outside, it may appear that an eating disorder is defined by a
preoccupation with weight loss and food, but this is simply the tip of the iceberg.
Underneath the portrait of perfectionism that is carefully crafted by an eating disorder
sufferer lies insurmountable pain and anguish. Eating disorders are survival mechanisms,
coping strategies for dealing with underlying issues that may be overwhelmingly difficult
to face.

According to Davidson, J. (2014), very few researchers have directly asked

people who are in love about their sleep. A notable exception is Professor Serge Brand of
the Psychiatric University Clinics at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He and his
colleagues studied young people who were in early-stage intense romantic love. Their
study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2007, found that intensely in-love
adolescents reported having shorter sleep (by about one hour) than their not-in-love
counterparts. Furthermore, sleep was shortest in those who were most obsessively
distracted by thoughts of their loved one.
 Of interest: Although the infatuated ones had shorter sleep, it was of high quality..
The discrepancies between the Swiss and Iranian findings can perhaps be explained by
differences in definitions of being in love (the Swiss definition was early-stage intense
romantic love; the Iranian study definition was simply in love) and cultural
differences (the sleep times of Iranian youth may be under greater parental control, the
study posits).

These three studies are the only ones to be found on the topic of romantic love
and sleep, and theyre all with adolescents. There seems to be no research whatsoever on
the sleep of people over age 25 who are in love. You can fall in love at any age. So, here
we have an empty research field. We can only guess at the effects on sleep of falling in
love when we are no longer in the springtime of life. However, it is known that sleep
tends to get shorter and more disrupted with each decade, so it is unlikely that when we
fall in love at age 80 that our sleep will be tremendous.

As you may know, falling in love involves feelings of exhilaration, intense

passion, and euphoria, especially if the loved one reciprocates the passion. Of course, if
the loved one doesnt feel the same way, these feelings morph into desperation and
heartbreak. But lets not go there today.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with natural reward systems, those

brain circuits that give us a sense of pleasure when we engage in behaviours related to
survival, like eating, drinking and having sex. It is also the system that gets hijacked in
addictions to various drugs. When we are in love our brain is in a pleasure state not
unlike being high on drugs like cocaine. There are other neurobiological alterations that
occur with passionate love, including an increase in certain hormones involved in the
stress response (cortisol) and those implicated in bonding with your mate (vasopressin
and oxytocin). This brain cocktail leaves us in a hypomanic-like condition. As with
hypomania a state of elevated mood, energy and activity that occurs with bipolar
disorder the need for sleep may be reduced when we are intensely in love. We spend
plenty of time trying to be with our beloved, and we spend less time asleep.

According to Melina, R. (2011), romance can be pretty anxiety-inducing. From

the fear of staying single to a dread of chocolate, Life's Little Mysteries has rounded up
the strangest love-related phobias. Here are an example:

1. "Commitmentphobia" is a made-up phobia, but folks who fear being in a

relationship may actually have amoraphobia, the fear of love.

According to Maharjan, R. (2017), people in this world long for someone to

shower them with all the affection and love they could have ever imagined. Love is like a
beautiful gift everyone wishes for. As much as falling in love is appealing, it can be
intimidating for many others. Such type of unreasonable fear and anxiety that one would
fall in love is known as Philophobia.

Philophobia has been derived from Greek word filos meaning loving or
beloved. A philophobic person is extremely conscious to form any sort of loving
attachment with anyone, and avoids any bonding. A philophobic person tries all possible
ways to avoid forming any emotional attachment even if he/she has feelings within. This
can be a serious problem when the phobia leads them to lead an isolated life.

According to Berger, V. (2005), Rejection, and the fear of being rejected, ranks
among the most potent and distressing of every day events that people experience.
Emotional rejection is the feeling a person experiences when disappointed about not
achieving something desired. It is commonly experienced in a quest of emotional
relations, such as among romantic couples, in social and group settings, or in the
professional world in relation to advancement.

Interpersonal rejection ranks among the most potent and distressing events that
people experience. Rejection by a loved one, a romantic relationship, ostracism,
stigmatization, job termination, and other kinds of rejections have the power to
compromise the quality of a person's life. As a result, people are highly motivated to
avoid social rejection, and, indeed, much of human behavior appears to be designed to
avoid such experiences.
The act of rejection can make the person experiencing it undergo a sudden drop in
positive emotion. This is displayed as something ranging from a vague disappointment,
sadness, and depression, to anxiety, phobic behavior, or even stalking or forcibly
abducting the rejecting person.
When we are hurt emotionally the same reaction occurs internally; our mental and
emotional states are looking to move away from the hurtful person or situation, just as a
person under attack. These are responses of defence and the subconscious mind does not
differentiate between physical and emotional pain, as both can hurt us. If someone insults
you or behaves in a way that violates your personal emotional boundaries, the feeling of
hurt may be appropriate. When we experience enough situations of hurt, we feel we have
to protect our self from further hurt. This is neither wrong nor right, it is a matter of
whether the response suites your needs.
The desire for acceptance, the opposite of rejection, is a driving force that keeps
many people from being an authentic human being. They are so driven by the need for
acceptance of others that they lose their own identity in the process. They mimic the ways
in which others act, dress, talk, think, believe, and function. Acceptance is the underlying
process in the power of peer pressure and is what causes young people and older people
alike to fixate on pop-culture, counter culture, punk, new wave, preppie, yuppie, and
other styles. They crave recognition and acceptance from the reference group with whom
they want to be identified.
People who operate out of a fear of rejection often display little or no
assertiveness, they do not speak up and let others know how they feel about something,
especially if their opinions differ. They lack the courage to function differently from
others, even when they don't enjoy the behavior in which they are involved. They will
often keep their personal feelings hidden from others and too often from themselves.
For too many people the fear of rejection and the desire for acceptance are the
main motivating forces for all actions in their lives. It plays a part in their choices
concerning their education, career direction, work behavior, achievement level,
interpersonal and marital relationships, family and community life, and the ways in which
they spend leisure time. The person who operates out of a fear of rejection all too often
ends up pushing away the very friends, family, and helpers who care the most. The
pulling away of these caring ones appears to be rejection, and the vicious cycle goes on
with negative results.

CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY

This chapter presents description of the research method used, including the
methods used in the selection of the respondents, the instrument used, the data processing
procedure and statistical treatment utilized in analyzing the data gathered.

RESEARCH DESIGN
 To be able to attain the objectives of the study, the researchers preferred on
surveying the selected FIDELIS Senior High School students. The questionnaire was
composed of two parts. Part I was the demographic profile of the students including the
name, age, gender and year and section. Part II was made up of statements about how
love affects someones behavior when they are broken hearted. Through these, the
researchers discovered the common mental illness caused by love to the selected Fidelis
Senior High School students.

POPULATION & SAMPLES

The researchers respondents would be the selected students from FIDELIS

Senior High school. There would be fifty (50) selected male students and (50) selected
female students. That has a total of one hundred (100) selected students are the
researchers respondents.

RESPONDENTS
MALE FEMALE
50 50
TOTAL = 100 Respondents
Table. 1

Slovins Formula

N 628
n= 1+ Ne2 n = 1+(628)(0.9)2 =100 students

Where:

n = size of the sample

N= size of the population

e = margin of error

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT

The researchers used indirect method such as questionnaires. For the preparation
of their questionnaires, the researchers listed all the possible questions that will lead them
in knowing the common mental illness caused by love to the selected students.
VALIDATION PROCEDURE

The researchers procedure steps for making questionnaires are they formulate
their ideas, they listed all the possible questions that are related to their studies, they
passed it to the professionals. After checking the questionnaires, the researchers revised
and edit their questionnaires and they provide one hundred (100) copies for their
respondents.

DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE

After the validation of the questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire
consisted of sixteen (16) questions, which are all about what is the relationship of love to
mental disorders. The researchers sent a formal letter directed and approved by the
principals. The letter was to inform the students that they will be the participants in this
study and the researchers need their cooperation in order to complete the research. The
researchers will assure the confidentiality of the answers since demographic profile is
important.

STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF DATA

Percentage

f
% = n x 100 = Percentage

Where:

f = Frequency n = Total Number

CHAPTER IV

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF

DATA

This chapter covered the presentation and analysis of the data that researchers
gathered. Through this analysis, the researchers determined which common mental
disorders caused by love to the selected students from Fidelis Senior High School. The
following questions were given in these questionnaires together with the results.

Have you already fallen in love?

Choices Frequency Percentage
YES 100% 100%
NO 0 0
TOTAL: 100 100
Table 1. Frequency and Results

From the information that researchers have gathered from (Table. 1) 100 (100%)
of the researchers respondents have already experienced falling in love while there was
none of their respondents have not experienced falling in love. These all resulted to 100
%.

Why did you choose to fall in love?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Ive just felt it 59 59%
Past time 11 11%
Seeking for an attention 6 6%
Longing for an intimate 14 14%
relationship
TOTAL 100 100%
Table 2. Frequency and Results

According to Table. 2, 59% of the respondents answered that they choose to fall
in love because they just felt it, another 11% choose it because it just a past time to them,
while 6% of the respondents are just seeking for an attention and the missing 14% choose
to fall in love because they just longing for an intimate relationship with a total of 100%.

How much time do you spend of thinking about him/her?

Choices Frequency Percentage
All day/night 72 72%
When I only see her/him 28 28%
 TOTAL 100 100%
Table 3. Frequency and Results

According to Table 3, 72% of the respondents have spent all day/night thinking
their love ones, while 28% of it was spending their time thinking their love once when
they only see her/him with a total of 100%.

Does having a love life make your studies easier?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Yes 68 68%
No 32 32%
TOTAL 100 100%
Table 4. Frequency and Results

According to Table 4, 68% of the respondents say that having a love life make
their studies easier and the 32% of its response that having a love life doesnt make their
study easier.

Does love really inspires you while youre studying?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Yes 91 91%
No 9 9%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 5. Frequency and Results

According to Table 5, 91% of the respondents was feeling inspired while studying
because of love while 9% of them reaction was love doesnt give inspiration while they
were studying.

Have you been broken hearted? Or being rejected?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Yes 79 79%
No 21 21%
 TOTAL 100 100%
Table 6. Frequency and Results

According to Table 6, 79% of the respondents have been broken hearted or being
rejected and the other 21% doesnt experienced being broken hearted or at least being
rejected.

What situation did you felt?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Eating a lot 43 34%
Sleep all day 39 30%
Having difficulties in eating 13 11%
Having difficulties in 31 25%
sleeping
TOTAL 126 100%
Table 7. Frequency and Results

According to Table 7, 34% of the respondents eating a lot when they were heart
broken, while 30% of them were sleep all day, 11% were suffer in having difficulties in
eating and 25% of them were having difficulties in sleeping with total of 100%.

What food do you prefer to eat?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Sweets (Candy, chocolates, 34 42%
sweet pastry)
Junk foods (Chips, 31 38%
hamburgers, fries, soft drinks
etc.)
Vegetables 10 12%
Fruits 6 8%
TOTAL 81 100%
 Table 8. Frequency and Results

Based on Table 8, 42% of the respondents preferred eating sweets while they were
heartbroken or being rejected, 38% of them preferred eating junk foods, while 12% of
them preferred eating vegetables and the 8% of them preferred to eat fruits with the total
of 100%

What sickness/illnesses?
Choices Frequency Percentage
Headache 33 40%
Hypersomnia 20 25%
Insomnia 28 35%
TOTAL 81 100%
Table 9. Frequency and Results

According to Table 9, 40% of the respondents got some headache every time they
were in the stage of being broken hearted, while 25% of them were experiencing
hypersomnia and 35% of them having insomnia with a total of 100%.

How much sleep do you have if youre broken hearted?

Choices Frequency Percentage
3-4 hours 20 25%
5-7 hours 30 37%
7-10 hours 31 38%
TOTAL 81 100%
Table 10. Frequency and Results
 According to Table 10, 25% of the respondents were having 3-4 hours of sleep
while 37% of them having 5-7 hours of sleep and the missing 38% were into 7-10 hours
of sleep that has a total of 100%.

How long did you forgot about her/him?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Day/s to Week/s 13 16%
Month/s 41 51%
Year/s 27 33%
TOTAL 81 100%
Table 11. Frequency and Results

Based on Table 11, 16% of the respondents forgot their exs in day/s to week/s
while 51% of them forgot in about month/s and another 33% of them forgot it in a year/s
with the total of 100%.

How do you handle this kind of situation?

Choices Frequency Percentage
By using your heart 9 9%
By using your mind or; 14 14%
Both 77 77%
TOTAL 100 100%
Table 12. Frequency and Results

Based on the Table 12, 9% of the respondents using their hearts to handle that
kind of situation, another 14% of them using their mind to handle that kind of situation
and 77% of the respondents using both of their hearts and minds to handle such things
like that, with total of 100%.

What kind of love do you think hurt more if you experience it?
Choices Frequency Percentage
Love to Family 74 74%
Love to Friends 10 10%
 Love to Opposite sex 16 16%
TOTAL 100 100%
Table 13. Frequency and Results

According to Table 13, 74% of the respondents think that love to the family is the
most hurtful kind of love if they will experience it, while 10% of them response that love
to friends is the most hurtful experience in terms of kinds of love and the 16% of it was in
their opposite sex. These all resulted 100%.

Being heartbroken can lead in having a mental disorders?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Yes 65 65%
No 35 35%
TOTAL 100 100%
Table 14. Frequency and Results

According to Table 14, 65% of the respondents agree that being heartbroken can
lead in having a mental disorders while 35% of it disagree about having a mental
disorders when they were broken hearted.

After being broken hearted, would you choose to love again?

Choices Frequency Percentage
Yes 84 84%
No 16 16%
TOTAL 100 100%
Table 15. Frequency and Results

Based from the Table 15, 84% of the respondents would choose to love again after
the pain that love give to them while 16% of them response that after being broken
hearted they will not love again.

Some of the reasons was stated, which do you prefer?

Choices Frequency Percentage
 Because you are afraid to 4 25%
being heart broken
Youre afraid to love again 9 56%
You dont want to suffer 3 19%
again
TOTAL 16 100%
Table 16. Frequency and Results

According to Table 16, 25% of the respondents reason why they dont want to
love again because they were afraid being heart broken, while 56% of them were afraid to
love again and 19% of them dont want to suffer again with the of 100%.

The researchers study they want to prove was connected to the answers of the
respondents. The problems and the answers that they were seeking was given by the
respondents, the result of this survey help the researchers to prove their study.

The researchers study that they want to prove was connected to the answers of
the respondents. The problems and the answers that they were seeking was given by the
respondents, the result became successfully.

CHAPTER V

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

This chapter presents the summary, conclusion and recommendation of the study.

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
 This research with the title of Common Mental Disorders Cause by Love to
Selected students from Fidelis Senior High School consists of five chapters. The
researchers wanted to decipher if love can cause mental disorders to the Senior High
students and how it is related to each other.

In the first chapter of this research, the researchers first defined the term of love
and mental disorders. They also stated its relation to each other and thought some
questions to be answered in chapter two. They have also stated their inquiries and
hypothesis together with the significance of the study. To work on this research, they
gathered some data and browse information in different Social Networking Sites in
relation to their topic. They created one hundred (100) questionnaires as their research
instruments to their chosen hundred (100) respondents from Fidelis Senior High to know
and to determine their stand about love can cause mental disorders if it yes or no to the
students?-. The students answers and opinions, served as their basis to answer questions
regarding to their topic. After collecting information from their respondents, the
researchers tabulated the results and to summarize their answers.

65 Out of the 100 respondents believe that falling in love could possibly result to
having mental disorders. The respondents agreed with their study. The researchers have a
positively triumphant. The answered came from the respondents has a connection to
what researchers want to stand for. This result supported the topic of the researchers to
come up to a better outcome. Heres conclusion for you to understand more clearly and
easy the results of the given survey.

CONCLUSION

Therefore, the researchers conclude that all of their respondents were physically
and mentally affected when they experienced being ignored or rejected by the person they
love and being broken hearted.
 Some of the respondents say that being in love can be an inspiration while
studying and it makes the studies more easier because of the overwhelming feeling they
feel when they are in a relationship but despite of it, when you experience being rejected
and broken hearted it can also ruin your studies because you are always thinking about it,
all day and all night that may cause lack of sleep, eating a lot, feeling stress all the time
and other factors that may lead to mental disorders.

RECOMMENDATION

This research comes to its last word for the end and the researchers would like to
give you some recommendations.
1.
Before you choose to love someone, you must know the positive and negative
effects of it on your mental state.
2.
The students must be aware to the possible consequences of love to their
psychological being.
3.
Students must control their emotion if love is being discussed because it can cause
some mental disorders to them.
4.
Our mind and heart are connected to each other so the students must know if it
would be a good or a bad influence of having a relationship with the opposite sex.
5.
Be aware on the mental disorders so that they can prevent those illnesses

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ABSTRACT

Love is defined as a profound and caring affection towards another. It can change
the way you see the world from a negative to positive one but it can also change someone
into worst version of himself. Love can cause love sickness.
 Love sickness leads to suffering that can manifest as physical as well as mental
symptoms. There are six classification of love. These are agape, eros, ludus, mania,
pragma and storge and what kind of love can cause eating disorder, sleeping disorder and
philophobia among people nowadays is the dominant question. The purpose of this study
is to examine the common mental disorders of the students that cause by love because in
this generation, love is the reason why most of the students were distracted and also what
was the reason why they choose to fall in love even if it will break their hearts that is
connected in the possibility that can cause mental disorders.

This study of love that is associated with mental illness can be a way for us to
know the effects of love on ones life. Showing the cause and effect of the study can
improve everyones knowledge on how love can affect our psychological well-being that
can enhance maturity in terms of their behavior on the effects of love on education, career
and emotions. In this research, it helps us to understand which relationship attitudes and
beliefs lead to better developmental outcomes.

In this research, there are fifty (50) selected male students and (50) selected
female students that has a total of one hundred (100) selected students from FIDELIS
Senior High School. The researchers used questionnaires as a research instrument to
know if love can cause mental disorders. At last, this research prove that love can cause
mental disorders such as eating disorders, sleeping disorder and Philophobia.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This thesis would not have been possible without the guidance and help of all
people who are in one way or another contributed and extended their valuable assistance
in the preparation and completion of this study.
 First and foremost, we would like to give thanks to our Almighty God for giving
us wisdom and strength in pursuing our study despite of all difficulties and hardships we
have been through;

To our parents, we deeply thanked them for giving us hope, love and support.
They have been the source of our encouragement and inspiration.

To Mr. Danilo Austria, Coordinator of Fidelis Senior High School and Mr. Arnold
Catapang, Principal of Basic Education School for allowing us to conduct our data
gathering and supporting us in making this paper possible;

To Ms. Mariel Alboreda, for sharing her knowledge in helping us in all her might;

To Ms. Clarence Dominique Velasco, our grammarian, for ensuring that this paper
is grammar error free and clearly express the nature of the study;

To our statistician, Sir Jeric Bryan Yaneza, for helping us in the treatments of the
data by which the researchers find difficulty;

To Ms. Christene Razon, for helping and sharing her expertise to the researchers
in improving the study;

To Ms. Kristin Hernan, in motivating and offering her full support for the
improvement of this paper;

To our respondents, for cooperating with us, without you, we will not achieved
the completion of this research.

To our friends, for the encouragement and for helping us for this research from its
start until the end.

To researchers themselves, thank you for the fullest cooperation, without you, we
will not meet the fulfillment of this research.
 COMMON MENTAL DISORDERS CAUSED BY LOVE TO SELECTED
STUDENTS FROM FIDELIS SENIOR HIGH OF FIRST ASIA INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITIES

Name (optional): ________________________

Year and section: ________________________

Age: ____ Gender: ______

Purpose: This study help us to know what the effects of love in our mental health
and to determine what specific disorders students most experienced.

Goal: The goal of this research is to prove that love can cause mental disorders to
some student who have already experienced falling in love.

Direction: Choose your answers by putting a check (/) inside the box provided.

1. Have you already fallen in love?

YES
NO

2. Why did you choose to fall in love?

Ive just felt it
Past time
Seeking for an attention
Longing for an intimate relationship

3. How much time do you spend of thinking about him/her?

All day/night
When I only see her/him

4. Does having a love life make your life easier?

Yes
 No
5. Does love really inspired you while youre studying?
Yes
No
6. Have you been heartbroken? Or being rejected? (if not please disregard questions
numbers 7-11)
Yes
No

7. If yes what situation did you felt? (check as many as possible)

Eat a lot
Sleep all day
Having difficulties in eating
Having difficulties in sleeping

8. What food do you prefer to eat?

Sweets (Candy, chocolates, sweet pastry)
Junk foods (Chips, hamburgers, fries, soft drinks etc.)
Vegetables
Fruits
9. What sickness/illnesses have you felt?
10. How much sleep do you have if youre heartbroken?
3-4 hours
5-7 hours
7-10 hours
Others: _______ (please specify)

11. Did you felt any sickness or illnesses when youve been heartbroken/rejected?
Yes
No

12. What sickness/illnesses did you felt?

Headache
Hypersomnia
 Insomnia

13. How long did you forgot about being heartbroken/ rejected?
Day/s
Week/s
Month/s
Year/s

14.