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Psychological pain, mental pain, or emotional pain is an unpleasant feeling (a suffering) of a psychological, non-physical origin. A pioneer in the field of suicidology, Edwin S. Shneidman, described it as "how much you hurt as a human being. It is mental suffering; mental torment."
Turns out, even thinking about instances of social rejection (seeing a photo of someone who broke your heart, for example) can activate the same part of your brain that responds to physical pain ...
Rejection appears to lead very rapidly to self-defeating and antisocial behavior. [18] Researchers have also investigated how the brain responds to social rejection. One study found that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is active when people are experiencing both physical pain and "social pain", in response to social rejection. [19]
Emotional abandonment can manifest through loss or separation from a loved one. [ 1 ] Feeling rejected, which is a significant component of emotional abandonment, has a biological impact in that it activates the physical pain centers of the brain and can leave an emotional imprint in the brain's warning system. [ 2 ]
This is a story of rejection after declaring my feelings to my former coworker when my contract ended. ... I decided to trade emotional pain for physical strain, and I went to a total-body class ...
In severe cases, the depression of a broken heart can create a sustained type of stress that constitutes an emotional trauma which can be severe enough to leave an emotional imprint on individuals' psychobiological functioning, affecting future choices and responses to rejection, loss, or disconnection. [21]
Additional research indicates that cortical association influences the development of symptoms associated with hysteroid dysphoria. Feelings of social rejection activate cortical regions that are also linked to physical pain, including the anterior insula and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. [9]
Headache, back pain, or stomach pain are some of the most common types of psychogenic pain. [5] It is commonly accompanied by social rejection , broken heart , grief , lovesickness , regret , or other such emotional events.