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How love and heartbreak rewire your brain - BBC World Service

Why does love feel amazing and heartbreak like actual pain? Click here to subscribe to our channel ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Here, we look at the brain scans of people in the early stages of relations

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Dr. Brown is a remarkably kind scientist. Grief can be so profound that, even when you know how to find your way back to yourself and even when youโ€™re logical and resilient, it can still leave you feeling lost. My heart truly goes out to her. I feel her loss and her pain.โค
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@crlfff From YouTube โ†— 22 Jul 2026 10
Ive been heartbroken for 5 years and now have clinical major depression
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It's about time somebody started talking about a broken heart from the EMOTIONAL side of heartbreak.
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It's been three months now and I still can't process the pain of losing him to another woman... It's truly a disturbing state of the world we live in ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข
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Nothing, absolutely nothing helps with a broken heart - only time!
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Seeing what people around me going through after breakup makes me want to never enter a relationship.
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Listen to love songs after a breakup? Yes lets throw more fuel on the fire
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What's more beautiful than giving your partner your brain scans as a gift of your love. A literal proof. โคโค
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My only advice that actually worked when my heart was shattered is change..if you keep your mind in a familiar space the neurological attachment will remain , change the room, cut your hair, wear different clothes even a new mug will make a difference ,try to grieve outside the home and in specific times to make sure the sadness takes a direction you control and doesnโ€™t become the whole universeโ€ฆand at the end you need to remember the cost of keeping a bad partner around is actually higher than what youโ€™re paying now..
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I've been broken and rewired so many times I feel barely human some days
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I'd rather adjust to your absence than being constantly frustrated with your presence.
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Broken ๐Ÿ’” heart is part of our lives transformation process.
I tried to escape it for so long but it finally hit me.
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My grandfather died from a "broken heart" ...
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It's been 2ยฝ yrs since me and my ex broke up, we have a child so we have to have some sort of contact and it's still very very hard sometimes emotionally
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"Grief is the price that we pay for love"
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@Pheelyp From YouTube โ†— 20 Jul 2026 364
Grief is indeed the price of love.
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Love is a drug? Roxy Music told me that years ago!
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i lost a love lastnight and i decide to watch this video (when i find video to practice ielts listening) to face directly to this hurt and understand the mechanism of heartbreak. Thanks to this vid, i find out an intersting truth that is " heartbreak can produce withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addiction"
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This world is built on struggle. From the day we are born until the day we die, suffering is part of life. Before creating a new life, we should think carefully about what kind of world we are bringing them into.
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