New research shows the area of the brain associated with addiction is triggered during breakups.
My Take: Interesting stuff, and not all that surprising. We all know break ups can make us go a little crazy. (If Felix was the only one this happened too, I don’t think I’d have any readers.) While some turn to booze, or self help tricks, or try to get on the rebound train, and engage in self-destructive, addictive behaviors, others take a different path.
I know plenty of people who transferred their break up madness into insane focus at the gym or in other positive areas of their life. So maybe those addiction triggers break ups cause can be harnessed for good.
(When your not sobbing, still in your pjs at 3pm in the afternoon listening to Ray Lamontagne or James Blunt on loop, of course.)
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