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“It’s the point where emotional pain turns to physical pain after going through a breakup, heartbreak, or a separation,” she says. While heartbreak—an existential experience—makes you ...
A broken heart (also known as heartbreak or heartache) is a metaphor for the intense emotional stress or pain one feels at experiencing great loss or deep longing. The concept is cross-cultural, often cited with reference to unreciprocated or lost love.
Sharon Barbour explores how love and heartbreak can impact your health this Valentine's Day.
Lovesickness refers to an affliction that can produce negative feelings when deeply in love, during the absence of a loved one or when love is unrequited.. The term "lovesickness" is rarely used in modern medicine and psychology, though new research is emerging on the impact of heartbreak on the body and mind.
It is important to note that this change is not universal, and is mostly confined to the English-speaking medical community. The term psychogenic pain is still used in non-English literature. [9] To fill the new gap in terminology left by the declining use of psychogenic pain, the term "nociplastic pain" was coined in 2016. [12]
'So lonely you could die' isn't just a song lyric. Neurogenomics is proving that the human nervous system is not well suited to isolation.
Compassion for social pain in others was associated with strong activation in the interoceptive, inferior/posterior portion of this region, while compassion for physical pain in others involved heightened activity in the exteroceptive, superior/anterior portion. Compassion for social pain activated this superior/anterior section, to a lesser ...
Therapists and researchers are recognizing more and more cases of service members like Grimes-Watson who are returning from war with moral injuries, wounds caused by blows to their moral foundation, damaging their sense of right and wrong and often leaving them with traumatic grief. Moral injuries aren’t always evident.