You know the feeling. Someone you loved stops loving you back, and suddenly there's this dull ache sitting right in your chest. You clutch a cushion, you can't eat, you keep saying "it hurts" as if you've actually been injured. Not sad. Not disappointed. Hurt. Psychology says that the brain does not differentiate between physical and emotional pain. Scientific research has been conducted where fMRI scans were studied of people who went through emotional pain, and what they fo

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