Broken heart (also known as a heartbreak or heartache) is a metaphor for the intense emotional and sometimes physical stress or pain one feels at experiencing great longing. The concept is cross cultural, often cited with reference to a desired or lost lover, and dates back.
Emotional pain that is severe can cause 'broken heart syndrome, including physical damage to the heart.
When you get viciously dumped, it can feel like someone has punched you in the stomach, knocking all the wind out of you.
It can be consuming, as if your entire body were suddenly in Rigamortis. Guess what? While nothing has physically been done to you, your brain literally is telling your body the pain is real.
Having your heart broken can go one of two ways: you either binge eat or eat nothing.
It's all about how you cope with sadness. Some people eat their feelings, using food as a distraction and a comfort while they cry their hearts out, watching an endless stream of Lifetime movies. Others are so racked with anxiety, they can't even think about eating; food becomes disgusting and indigestible.
For some, heartbreak can be the most fabulously unhealthy diet known to man.
So, when i say heartbreak "hurts like hell," you know it actually hurts.
When you get your heart broken, though, all those lovey dovey chemicals wash right out of your system, leaving you victim to stress hormones. This is what i actually face.
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