Physical Pain After Breakup | Dr. Sydney Ceruto — MindLAB
Physical Pain After a Breakup: Why Heartbreak Activates Your Body’s Pain and Opioid Systems Physical pain after a breakup is not metaphor. It is your brain running endogenous-opioid withdrawal — the anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula firing the same circuits that register broken bones, while mu-opioid receptors starved of their primary source (the partner) down-regulate into literal pharmacological withdrawal. The chest tightness, the body aches, the flu-like malaise are not separate symptoms. They are a single neurochemical event with four visible expressions. ...
