'Broken Heart' Pain does exist

[wdlove]

In a study at the University of California Los Angles, they found that when a person is excluded from a social activity pain is registered in the brain. The rejection was registered in the anterior cingulate cortex, the same area of the brain that responds to physical pain.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/2545570/detail.html?treets=bos&tml=bos_health&ts=T&tmi=bos_health_1_12150010102003

 

[topicolo]

I guess that puts a whole new meaning to hurting one's feelings

 

[rainman::|:|]

i've been saying it for years.

this is why emotional distress needs to be treated just like physical pain and suffering in court. too often, it's looked at as a money-grabbing attempt...

pnw

 

[solvs]

Yeah, I saw this earlier.

Although from what I read, this seemed to have more to do with social rejection, it's implications are revealing. Some of us know all too well that emotional pain can hurt as much, if not more so, than physical pain. Sometimes even causing it. Science seems to agree.

 

[Daveman Deluxe]

I could have told them that.

In retrospect, it appears I should have told all the girls I've asked out over the years that if she says no, it really IS like she cut out my heart as far as my brain is concerned.

Intriguing study nevertheless.

 

[HasanDaddy]

thanks for the note LOVE!

that was a very neat article

 

[mymemory]

Yeah, next time they are gonna confirm that such thing as "gravity" do exist!

I saw in a tv show that our feelings of rejection or our feelings of isolation came from or ancestors the cave men, just because a man that was excluded from the tribe had a secure death by itself.

That is why rejection is such terrible feeling since then.

About broken hearts, 80% of that feeling is a hurt ego. No one want to be rejected by his/her partner.

If your girlfriend brake up with you, you are the one who is gonna feel worst. If you brake up with your girlfriend a minute before, you will not feel as bad as the other part.

 

[Phil Of Mac]

Another day, another weakness in the human psyche discovered...

 

[ColoJohnBoy]

Originally posted by mymemory
About broken hearts, 80% of that feeling is a hurt ego. No one want to be rejected by his/her partner.

I'd agree with that if I still had an ego after being rejected. It isn't the being rejected, I've gotten used to that - it's the fact t hat most people just cut off communication with no explanation. It sucks.