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Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 31 May 2012 04:24:01AM 2 points [-]

Steven Hassan and Keith Henson are among the other cult critics to write about love bombing, postulating that it is similar, in terms of effects on neutrotransmitters within the brain, emotional state, and conduct, to the administration of drugs of abuse, temporarily producing intense euphoria when under its influence, and encouraging the actions from which the stimulus was derived

This is not a strong argument. Everything is like cocaine.