unrequited love

Unrequited love is a strong admiration, ingrained deep inside, for someone who does not feel the same way about you . Those suffering with this mental torment will go on for weeks, months or even years hoping, bargaining, praying and fantasizing of the moment when their beloved will one day change their mind and reciprocate their feelings. This intense yearning and passion may cause frustration, anger, anxiety, shame and deep depression. These feelings are compounded if the sufferer was also rejected by the object of their affections. It could cause the sufferer to stay in bed for hours, call in sick for work, have anxiety attacks or even be in a cloudy haze from time-to-time. Furthermore, ...would've, should've, could've scenarios may play over-and-over again in the sufferer's mind along with scenes of desirable end-results. Over time, healing comes when the sufferer discovers how to love and truly know oneself and realizing that they are in control and ultimately responsible for their own state of mind and being. The feelings of hopelessness and loss are only temporary and are actually false. However, it may take the suffer a substantial amount of time to realize this.