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Dave · 30th Mar 2011, 09:46 AM

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

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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.

Mr.Pushover · 30th Mar 2011, 12:36 PM

That's really interesting..

Ghostly · 30th Mar 2011, 01:38 PM

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

30th Mar 2011, 12:36 PM	#2
Mr.Pushover Thinks too much Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Dude who likes dudes. Out Status: Out as gay to some Location: Maryland Age: 16 Posts: 535 Join Date: Nov 2010	Re: Brain Reacts To Heartbreak Same As Physical Pain That's really interesting..

30th Mar 2011, 01:38 PM	#3
Ghostly привет Full Member Gender: Un Garçon Orientation: I'm committed to this one guy Out Status: people that care for me Location: Canada Age: 17 Posts: 1,305 Join Date: Jan 2008	Re: Brain Reacts To Heartbreak Same As Physical Pain Really? wow :/ I guess that may explain why some people get like really sick when something like that happens __________________ "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other" -Sir Francis Bacon

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