Chemical Coctail. (My Chemical Romance…. Decoded!)

Let’s really check why a simple “boy meets girl in a bar” story sounded so confusing.

Considering, u have read the story.." My Chemical Romance"…lets throw in the analogy..

Let the bar be just a situation in life and the girl u met be an actual person. Here’s how the Chemical Coctail’s match up:

 Ø  ‘te-estorica¹

             an analogy to testosterone and estrogen

 Ø  ‘pheroie²’           
         an analogy to pheromones

 Ø  ‘ doserono³’      
           an analogy to dopamine,norepinephrine,and serotonin

               Ø  “The Tovasre⁴”  
               an analogy to oxytocin and vasopressin
  Ø  catecholamines⁵      
             hormones
  Ø  octopus⁶                    
            an analogy to Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

Love is a mammalian drive just like hunger or thirst. The experience of love can be divided into three partly overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust exposes people to others; romantic attraction encourages people to focus their energy on mating; and attachment involves tolerating the spouse (or indeed the child) long enough to rear a child into infancy.( Ref. Helen Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love)

Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating/ turning your kinky side on; and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. These effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months.

 Attraction is the more individualized and romantic desire for a specific candidate for mating, which develops out of lust as commitment to an individual mate forms. Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine,norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act in a manner similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years.

Damn! U start enjoying romantic flicks over Star Wars, and u happily miss the teams soccer game to escort your girl on her shopping spree!

Since the lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary, a third stage is needed to account for long-term relationships. Attachment is the bonding that promotes relationships lasting for many years and even decades. Attachment is generally based on commitments such as marriage and children, or on mutual friendship based on things like shared interests. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin to a greater degree than short-term relationships have. Enzo Emanuele and coworkers reported the protein molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) has high levels when people first fall in love, but these return to previous levels after one year. Aaaaaaw..isn’t a beach side wedding the best thing to happen? Awww…look at those cute prams, would it not compliment our kid’s room?

( I’m choking out here!!! Guy’s stop such coochie-cooing! So much love in the air, no wonder the pollution level has stirred global concerns!!)

Learning the chemistry of love, lets see how a broken heart cope’s to his world coming to an end. Everything has an expiry date, so does love..right? Oh! Now I’m bad cause I’m the villain killing the ‘oh so cute love story?’…to hell with your dream bubble! People break up and marriages fail..and that’s the fact u can’t run away from! It’s more real than the superficial emotion called ‘Love’…glwaaak!!!!

OK! Peace! Refraining from personal ideologies; one has to admit that the modern/ present day heart -broken Romeo finds solace in glasses or bottles of alcohol. The stress induced is high! Anger, frustration and resentment are his only friends in the dark corner of his room. While the audio player repeats the never ending sequence of the same love songs, he seldom tries to hit it high with rock. All of this psychological reactions and environmental stressers, hits an out sync’d note in his body… high levels of Catecholamines reluctantly starts circulating. This indulgence shakes up the Central and Sympathetic Nervous System. What does that do?... well, it tells the body to release Norepinephrine as controlled as the pot heads head bang in a rock concert(..yup, uncontrollably)!  This directly results in one being admitted to the ICU and the Dr. nodding his head saying,” Son, u have been diagnosed with Takotsubo(Octopus Trap) Cardiomyopathy/ Transient Apical Balloning Syndrome!” 

…aaaah what?..it’s also called “ The Broken Heart Syndrome”!!!! If u are still wondering, if its fatal…ask your doctor …” Would Acute Heart Failure or a Ventricular rupture cause much pain?”

PS: Women please understand...your " I Can't be with you anymore..!" can actually kill us. Be sensitive, its less painful and in some cases less fatal!