Brain Reacts To Heartbreak Same As Physical Pain

Dave · Mar 30, 2011

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/220427.php

Love hurts, and that is not just a saying for the broken hearted. Heartbreak is a very strange distress. It is exquisitely painful, and yet we cannot find an injury on our body. New research finds that when you reminisce about the one that got away, the brain actually triggers sensations that you also feel in times of "real" physical pain, making heartbreak truly, physically painful to add to the emotional distress it sometimes causes.

Heartbreak is like one big emotional pain but it also seems to spark off hundreds of other emotions. We hate the feeling of heartbreak, and yet we find ourselves compelled to go over and over memories, ideas or fantasies which make the feeling worse.
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Mr.Pushover · Mar 30, 2011

That's really interesting..

Witchcraft · Mar 30, 2011

Really? wow :/ I guess that may explain why some people get like really sick when something like that happens

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