Limerence Deep Dive (Chapter 6 - Stalking and Other Behaviors)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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00:00 Refining qualifiers & the cycle16:08 Was Kendra displaying limerence?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners, this is Chapter 6 in my deep dive on limerence. |
| 0:04.6 | My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm a therapist and a professor, and I'm excited to talk about this. |
| 0:12.1 | I have been nerding out on this for months now, and I am nerding out in between chapters. |
| 0:19.4 | I just spent all morning rethinking the entire construct of limerence |
| 0:24.8 | and reorganizing my notes, looking at the research, thinking about brain science, |
| 0:30.6 | thinking about the survey results, and I can't wait to get to that portion of the deep dive. |
| 0:37.6 | Today's chapter, I wanted to start with something I was thinking about last night. |
| 0:42.6 | I recalled the TikTok or Kendra, who went viral recently for the TikTok video series titled, |
| 0:50.1 | I fell in love with my psychiatrist. |
| 0:52.7 | If you listen to the podcast or watch my YouTube channel, |
| 0:56.3 | you know that I reviewed that. And also, if you're on TikTok, I'm sure you came across it. |
| 1:01.7 | And it got me thinking, did Kendra suffer from Limerance? Now, of course, we can't really tell |
| 1:08.3 | because we're just watching a series of TikTok videos, |
| 1:12.0 | but, you know, she did disclose quite a bit, and maybe we can speculate or have a little bit of an idea |
| 1:19.3 | as to whether or not she might qualify for what I'm proposing to be the criteria of limerence disorder. |
| 1:31.3 | So a little background in case you don't know who Kendra was. She is a TikToker that makes content about self-help kind of. |
| 1:36.3 | It's also kind of like a personal blog in a way. |
| 1:40.3 | And she recently went viral on TikTok earlier this year, 2025, after posting a multi-part series |
| 1:48.9 | in which she talked about how she had fallen in love with her psychiatrist. |
| 1:53.8 | But the kicker and the more salacious part of her videos and her claim was that she claimed that her psychiatrist |
| 2:01.9 | manipulated her into falling in love with him and that he manipulated her into staying in love |
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