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What happens in your brain when you're in love
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When you're in love
When humans fall in love, their bodies are actively producing feel-good hormones and preventing the release of negative hormones.
When this process suddenly stops, the "withdrawal" felt can be extremely difficult to process both on an emotional and physiological level.
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Going through a breakup
Heartbreak is a form of grief and loss that can cause serious issues with insomnia, anxiety and depression.
The pain we feel during heartbreak is similar to the physical pain we feel due to a severe burn on a broken arm.
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Healing from a breakup
- Visual reminders are likely to create dopamine surges in your brain that relate to feelings of craving and withdrawal.
- Replace those surges of dopamine by taking a fitness class. Exercise can also release endorphins that trigger positive feelings.
- Find a "new normal".
- Accept the reason for the breakup.
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The Protest Phase
When people experience breakups they go through the ‘protest’ phase initially, and the rejected lover becomes obsessed with winning back the person who has quit the relationship.
Rejection, paradoxically, makes the rejected person love the partner even more. This is called a ‘Frustration Attraction’, and can be categorized as an addiction.
Chemical Reactions
The rejected lover experiences high levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, and are visibly stressed out. These chemical reactions trigger many to do crazy things to win their ex back. Such feelings are erased quickly if the lover starts dating a new partner.
Some people also feel increasingly passionate and loving after the breakup and are more likely to forgive their ex.
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Social media stalking your ex
When we are stalking our exes on social media, we will find something we don’t want to see. But the subsequent feel of your heart dropping and the jealousy aren’t conducive to getting over your heartbreak.
Burn all cyber-bridges - limiting your access to your ex will automatically make you feel better.
When everything makes you cry
The emotional pain of a breakup often results in your body pumping itself full of cortisol, which suppresses the immune system and affects coping mechanisms.
The first step in fixing the problem is understanding that it is normal, according. So if the littlest things are making you cry, take a moment to recognize that it is most likely caused by your body's response to the breakup.
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Take Your Time
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Good Grief
The five stages of grief are:
- denial (inability to accept reality),
- anger (physical tension, frustration, resentment),
- bargaining (magical thinking, pleading to God),
- depression (sadness, emptiness, guilt, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, hopelessness),
- acceptance.
Become Anti-Social (Media)
Nothing good can come from looking at your ex’s Instagram stories or Facebook timeline. When it comes to social media, just say no.