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Heartbreak Essay

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Heartbreak is one of the most common hardships that we as humans all experience at one point in our lives. We often hear the phrase “love hurts” but do not take it literally. We think we hate experiencing heartbreak, however it is really our body that actually hates it. The physical pain we feel during our heartbreak is a reaction due to the emotional trauma experienced in the brain. Our feelings can be described through poetry and song lyrics, yet psychologists and scientists are the only people who can actually prove what heartbreak really is.
To understand heartbreak, one must first understand the root of heartbreak. The root of heartbreak is love. Heartbreak is a result of trauma experienced from the failure of love. When a person is in love, our brain is happily producing the hormones of dopamine and oxytocin, which give us the feelings of happiness, according to neurobiology professor Lucy Brown. The feeling of love can be compared to the high that is produced from amphetamines (Britt, Psychology Behind Love and Romance, para.6). Our brain becomes accustomed to these chemical substances in our brain creating these happy feelings. The three stages of love are lust, attraction and attachment. In the last stage of love, attachment is formed due to the release of vasopressin, which forms an emotional bond between two people (Arun, The Science of Love).
Once we experience heartbreak we lose the positive chemical substance reactions. Lucy Brown explains that our once

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