The Fallacy of "I Can't Live Without You": A Relationship or Emotional Amputation?

Merve described how her heart raced and her hands trembled when her boyfriend, Mert, failed to reply to her messages for two hours, noting that she experienced such intense panic that she could neither study nor focus on her work. She characterized their relationship by saying, "He is the oxygen of my life; I am incomplete without him."

However, upon closer examination, we saw that this was not love, but a full-blown neurological withdrawal crisis.