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the only injury that runs on memory and gets worse when you're standing still
means the intense emotional grief and pain caused by loss, rejection, or disappointment, especially in love.
from A compound as old and plain as it sounds: 'heart' (Old English heorte, the body's pump long imagined as the seat of feeling) plus 'break.' English has fused the two since at least the late Middle Ages, building on an even older instinct — that grief literally fractures something inside us. The notion that sorrow could 'break' the heart goes back to ancient and biblical writing, and English simply made it a single word, treating an emotion as if it were a snapped bone.
- real syndrome
- Broken heart syndrome physically weakens the heart muscle
- same circuits
- Rejection lights up the brain like physical pain
- withdrawal
- Heartbreak mimics drug withdrawal, cravings and all
- survival glitch
- Bonding chemistry once kept ancestors from wandering off alone
- recovery
- Most people misjudge how fast they'll actually heal
adele's 21 album — 2011 breakup album about ex-boyfriend alex sturrock, sold 31 million copies worldwide
johnny cash's hurt — 2003 cover of nine inch nails song, music video with june carter cash showing decades of loss
fleetwood mac's rumours — 1977 album written by band members during divorces, 40 million copies sold