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Sexual arousal, orgasm, and the refractory period that follows can produce euphoria, as can romantic love. 

Emotional Expression of Euphoria

Sexual orgasm is typically produces euphoria and the refractory period that follows and romantic love, Euphoria

Sexual arousal, orgasm and and the refractory period that follows can produce euphoria, as can romantic love.

Euphoria is an affective state and a form of pleasure in which a person experiences intense feelings of well-being, happiness, and excitement. Certain drugs, many of which are addictive, can cause euphoria and euphoria, at least partially, motivates their recreational use. Similarly, certain natural rewards and social activities, such as physical exercise, laughter, music listening and making, and dancing, can induce a state of euphoria. Euphoria is also a symptom of mania.

This euphoria is symptomatic of a rare syndrome called ecstatic seizures, itself closely associated with religious and mystical experiences which are often euphoric.

Some barbiturates and benzodiazepines may cause euphoria. Possible euphoria is influenced by the drug's speed of onset, increasing dose, and with intravenous administration. Barbiturates more likely to cause euphoria include amobarbital, secobarbital and pentobarbital. Benzodiazepines more likely to cause euphoria are flunitrazepam, alprazolam and diazepam. Benzodiazepines also enhance opioid induced euphoria.

Here is my revised sentence re ecstatic seizures, with supported rationale and rejection of a narrow definition of euphoria.

"This euphoria is symptomatic of a rare syndrome called ecstatic seizures, itself closely associated with religious and mystical experiences which are often euphoric."Compare:

The article defines euphoria as "an affective state and a form of pleasure in which a person experiences intense feelings of well-being, happiness, and excitement."

In medical literature ecstatic seizures are described, "provoke feelings of well-being, ... bliss", "include intense positive affect, feelings of ... enhanced well-being", "experienced ... intense feelings of well-being", "experience a strong sense of happiness". (Several other symptoms may occur.)

Compare again:

Oxford dictionary defines Cambridge defines Shultz's use of euphoria
 * euphoria as "a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness," and
 * ecstasy as "an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement."
 * euphoria as "a feeling of extreme happiness or confidence," (US version) and
 * ecstasy as "a state of extreme happiness or pleasure:" (US version)

Shultz (cited) assigns euphoria to an affect of psychoactive drugs. I believe his intent is not to define euphoria (he never uses the term again) but merely to distinguish flavors of pleasure. Also cited are Bearn and O'Brien who actually say The includes the first sentence—truncated in the the ref's quote—which counters Shultz's seemingly narrow definition.
 * "There are different degrees and forms of pleasure. ... The feeling of high that is experienced by sports people during running or swimming, the lust evoked by encountering a ready mating partner, a sexual orgasm, the euphoria reported by drug users, and the parental affection to babies constitute different forms (qualities) rather than degrees of pleasure (quantities)."
 * "Eating, drinking, sexual activity, and parenting invoke pleasure, an emotion that promotes repetition of these behaviors, are essential for survival. Euphoria, a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness, is an amplification of pleasure, aspired to one's essential biological needs that are satisfied."

If Shultz was trying to strictly define euphoria itself to drugs, which I doubt, his definition is not shared and is not a neutral point of view. Consider: In a emotional sense, euphoria and ecstasy are very similar, with definitions practically synonymous. Ecstatic seizures commonly have euphoric effects per the article's definition, and this is regardless of the meaning of ecstasy. The narrow view of euphoria is seemingly based on Shultz. It is either a misunderstanding of Shultz or else Shultz's definition is contrary to wider conventional use raising NPOV issues. This is apparent as Shultz divorces runner's high from euphoria yet exercise-induced euphoria is present in the article.
 * "Long-distance runners have described a runner’s high as a sudden pleasant feeling of euphoria, anxiolysis, sedation, and analgesia". and "These acute effects of running, together with a feeling of euphoria, were earlier termed a runner’s high in humans."
 * "Further evidence suggests that running is associated with endorphins and cannabinoids thus explaining the  "runners high" or euphoric feelings  that may lead to exercise addiction."
 * "We report a 41-year-old woman with complex reflex epilepsy in which seizures were induced exclusively by the act of tooth brushing. All the attacks occurred with a specific sensation of sexual arousal and orgasm-like euphoria that were followed by a period of impairment of consciousness."
 * "Cocaine is described as producing a sense of mental clarity and a state of euphoria ... Acute intravenous administration of cocaine induces a highly pleasurable feeling ("rush") that some individuals equate with sexual orgasm ."
 * "There are no recognized definitions or diagnostic criteria for "love addiction," but its phenomenology has some similarities to substance dependence: euphoria and unrestrained desire in the presence of the love object or associated stimuli (drug intoxication)"
 * "Euphoria" in the Oxford dictionary provides a sample sentence: "An example of euphoria is how you feel after your new baby is born ."

In conclusion

Previous objections to ecstatic seizures should be withdrawn and the reworded sentence added.

(Excepting vandalism and blatant errors,) rather than acting as trigger-happy authorities, editors should utilize the talk page and present supported arguments.

Lastly, I chose not to use this short paper here but some editors may find it useful: [https://www.academia.edu/1217880/How_Happy_Is_Too_Happy_Euphoria_Neuroethics_and_Deep_Brain_Stimulation_of_the_Nucleus_Accumbens How Happy Is Too Happy? Euphoria, Neuroethics, and Deep Brain Stimulation of the Nucleus Accumbens.] — sig

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Occurring in less than 0.5% of persons with epilepsy, such ecstatic seizures have been closely associated with religious or mystical experiences.[31][32]

Euphoria is defined as a feeling of well-being and great happiness. and A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness: The first source provides a sample sentence: An example of euphoria is how you feel after your new baby is born.

Bliss is defined as "Perfect happiness; great joy:"

Ecstatic epileptic seizures are a rare but compelling epileptic entity. During the first seconds of these seizures, ecstatic auras provoke feelings of well-being, intense serenity, bliss, and “enhanced self-awareness.

Ecstatic seizures are focal epileptic seizures which are fascinating from a phenotypical point of view as they include intense positive affect, feelings of heightened self-awareness and enhanced well-being.

We document precise descriptions of the ecstatic seizures experienced by five patients, all of whom reported intense feelings of well-being and a heightened self-awareness.

Since the 1960s several theories have developed on the epilepsy of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. Probably the most exciting and still actual question might be the subject of the "ecstatic aura", he described in his novels based on his own experiences. During this extremely rare seizure onset the patients experience a strong sense of happiness, harmony and wholeness.

Conceptually, well-being or happiness has long been viewed as requiring at least two crucial ingredients: positive affect or pleasure (hedonia) and a sense of meaningfulness or engagement in life (eudaimonia).

The similarities between the feelings reported during ecstatic seizures and the feelings experienced under the effect of stimulant addictive drugs are described.

Since the 1960s several theories have developed on the epilepsy of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. Probably the most exciting and still actual question might be the subject of the "ecstatic aura", he described in his novels based on his own experiences. During this extremely rare seizure onset the patients experience a strong sense of happiness, harmony and wholeness.

Bliss qualifies as (a type of) euphoria, of high intensity. Bliss is defined as "Perfect happiness; great joy:" where euphoria is "A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness:"