Have you ever wondered why some people get physically sick in the days and weeks following a break-up? How come, when thinking about the moment the relationship ended, even if it wasn’t a long, passionate affair, but a seemingly relatively harmless casual fling, you can feel an urge to be violently ill?
Personally, when I was told stories of elderly couples who died very shortly after each other “of a broken heart,” I always thought that it wasn’t possible, that was the stuff of Hollywood romances or old wives tales. Love, or more accurately, the loss of love, can’t actually kill you. Sure, you can grieve and not want to get out of bed, get dressed or talk to anyone ever again, but surely your body would keep you alive. Life goes on, right?
Well, a new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that the regions of the brain that respond to physical pain overlap with those that react to social rejection; in other words, feelings of rejection can “hurt” just like actual physical pain, Shine.com is reporting.
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