Grades of Love!!!!!!!....

Quoting the definitions from the Oxford English dictionary-

Attraction- being drawn to oneself; the power of getting attracted towards a thing , place or person

Infatuation- inspire with intense fondness

Crush- colloquial  Intense Infatuation

Love- deep affection or fondness

How and when do you say that you have one of these syndromes? I wish we had a grading system for these kinds of ‘ tachycardia causing’ emotions too, like we have for grading muscle strength-. In the lines of Manual Muscle Testing grades, it would have been called Emotional affection/ love Rating  Grades.  A chart of Manual Muscle Testing grades is being shown here for the non-medical/physio readers here-

Grades of manual Muscle Testing

Grade 0- No contraction of the muscle

Grade1- Flicker contraction

Grade2- Full range of movement  of the muscle in gravity minimised plane

Grade 3- Full range of movement against gravity

Grade 4- Full range of movement against gravity and minimal resistance

Grade 5- Full range of movement against gravity and maximal resistance

Similarly, the Emotional love/affection rating grades would have been something like this-

Grade 0- No attraction

Grade 1- -flicker/ mild feeling of attraction, characterized by an event of “struck your eyes on the person for a few seconds”.

- Feelings appreciated by the victim only in the presence of the stimulus; absence of feelings when the stimulus is not around

Grade 2- Intense attraction or Infatuation which is present even after the stimulus is removed.

- Characterised by neuronal signal changes which bring the thoughts of the person in the victim’s mind. Such thoughts persist for some days.

-Bowel  & bladder functions , appetite and sleeping patterns remain unaffected.

Grade3- Intense infatuation or crush.

- Characterised by a strong urge to talk to the person or meet him/her.

- Neuronal signals in the victims brain are more intense, resulting in Autonomic nervous system changes- palpitation, sweating, signs of “want to speak but become speechless when the stimulus comes in front of them” , Adrenaline surge

- Bowel and bladder functions normal; sleep partially disturbed, appetite normal

Grade 4- Love ( with query)

-Characterized by cardiac and nervous system involvement which has impact on all the other systems

-Thoughts, words, actions, activities of the stimuli cloud around the victim’s brain and mind – 25 hours a day( body clock starts doing overtime, that’s why 25 hours!!)

- Bowel and bladder functions affected. Appetite severely  affected. Sleep-wake cycles altered. Circardian rythm gets disturbed

Grade 5- Confirmed love.

-Feelings are intense, persist defying all the truths of the world and inspite of full parental resistance

-Presence of the stimuli makes the victim’s life colourful; absence makes it dull and black and white.

- All the body systems are affected.

-ADL ( Activities of Daily Living) affected.

What do you think folks???