Sometimes you have to break your heart to repair it

It sounds crazy, but it is true? Think of open heart surgery. We need to physically cut open the heart to heal it sometimes. So this heartbreak we feel may just be some kind of repair. When you break your heart, you are repairing the damages. You are fixing yourself in your own way.

It sounds insane I know, but hear me out. When we cry and our chest burns, maybe there is an emotional factor that is being healed. Maybe we are healing the damage done to us. Who can really say? We cannot measure emotions, only hormones. And yes, hormones surge when we are stressed especially cortisol, but how does our body heal? We know that we all need to work on our stress but, can our hearts actually feel a heartbreak and process the repairs?

I genuinely don’t know. I would love to find a study done on recent heart break and the hormones released and physical effects on the heart. I am a hopeless romantic who has has her heart broken one too many times. I genuinely want to know:

Is ther permanent damage to heartbreak?

Will you ever truely heal from a heartbreak?

Are there physical effects to this kind of stress?

All of these are, I suppose personal questions. But, the answers are just as important regardles of peronsal health or importantance. What really happens when we go through a breakup? Why do we say our heart breaks?

We have been saying this for centuries, is there any truth to it?

Could your heart break into a heart attack? Or is this dramatic? I am prone to dramatics myself, but c’mon we have literally beem saying this for centuries. There has got to be some truth to it, right? I mean there is usually a truth to all the medicinal things from the old ages. Mint tea for sore throat etc. So there must be some truth to this right?

Can you have a heart attack from a heart break? I pray no one ever finds out truthfully. I pray no one suffers that kind of pain.

Good luck out there. And I pray you find love and not heart ache.