Break-up = physical pain
According to science, splitting with your guys hurts more than you think…
We've all felt the aftermath of a bad break up (hello binge-eating and depressing song lyric Facebook statuses).
But now, new scientific research shows that your brain totally bears the burden of calling it quits with your love.
The study by the University of Michigan relates the mental toll of a split to actual physical pain. Yes, really.
The same area of the brain that is activated when you experience
moderate pain is the one that "lights up" when an upsetting relationship
memory springs to mind.
The research also found that after a deeper, longer relationship led to much more serious effects in the brain.
So the more time you're with your guy, the more you mimic their
routines, habits, and behaviour, and essentially fall in-sync with their
life.
Which makes it all the more painful when you fall out of rhythm with their life.
This sync with your partner happens neurologically, so that your
associations in the brain strengthen but end up being severed after a
break-up. Ouch.
Fact: break ups hurt. But you knew that.
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