Breaking up sucks, but what sucks even more is how your body reacts to it. Emotional pain is experienced in the same way as physical pain. This is why a heart breaking can be a terrible thing.
1. Your brain hates the feeling.
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2. Because it registers physical pain.
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3. Emotional and physical pain share neural pathways.
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4. It also does a whole lot of other things to your body like tiredness and weight gain.
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5. It also causes your body to release a lot of stress hormones.
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