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Your brain processes rejection in the same region that registers a broken bone.
means Overwhelmed by grief or sorrow, especially from lost love, betrayal, or deep disappointment.
from A plain compound of "heart" (Old English heorte, the organ long imagined as the seat of feeling and courage) and "broken," the past participle of "break" (Old English brecan, to shatter). The pairing is old — the idea of a heart literally cracking under grief runs through medieval English writing and the King James Bible ("he healeth the broken in heart"). The metaphor outlived the belief: we no longer think the heart is where emotions live, yet we still say it splits when love does.
- real syndrome
- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy lets grief physically deform the heart
- withdrawal mode
- Brain scans mirror cocaine addicts going cold turkey
- named for
- Takotsubo means Japanese octopus trap, by shape
- survival rate
- Most broken hearts fully recover within weeks
britney spears 2007 — shaved her head and attacked paparazzi after custody battle and breakup with kevin federline
taylor swift folklore album — wrote and released album in 2020 processing breakups including from joe alwyn and past relationships
adele 25 album — released 2015 album about heartbreak from her split with simon konecki, won 6 grammys