Euphoria (emotion)
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Euphoria is a medically recognized emotional state related to happiness. Technically, euphoria is an affect, but colloquially the term is often used as a standard term of emotion to mean intense, transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of well being. The feeling of not fearing death nor caring about it. Euphoria is considered to be an exaggerated state, resulting from psychological or pharmacological stressors and not typically achieved during the normal course of human experience. A common theme among a subset of drugs used recreationally is their ability to induce a state of euphoria. The classification of episodic mania by Emil Kraepelin recognized the degree of euphoric affect among the classifier axes.
