Why does our heart hurt during break ups, etc.
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As you know, your brain isn’t exactly “sectioned off”, as [1 study found](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1102693108):
>powerfully inducing feelings of social rejection activate regions of the brain that are involved in physical pain sensation, which are rarely activated in neuroimaging studies of emotion
Physical and emotional pain is actually pretty close that they overlap, in fact, Tylenol actually works on emotional pain.
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