If our emotions are produced in our brains, why is heartache a physical pain?
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It's a consequence of seratonin deprevation.  During periods of agony and emotional pain, seratonin levels plumet, causing a host of neurophysiological effects elsewhere in the body.  There is a commercial running on TV in the USA right now for a drug that treats both depression and the physical pain often associated with depression.  It's the one where the script starts, "Where does depression hurt?  --  everywhere."
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Sometimes people get so hurt, angry, and frustrated but can't (or aren't allowed to)express their feelings.  Especially kids whose parents are not very understanding or who don't accept emotional expression in the family or adults whose partners don't accept it.  When the person can't express feelings, especially angry ones, they have a build up of frustration and release it on themselves rather than on others.  It's not much different from people who abuse others accept that the self-harmer would probably not hurt anyone, including themselves, if they were allowed to or knew how to express simple feelings of anger, disagreement, or frustration to those around them.  This is why it so important to learn good communication skills and to allow children and other family members to share and express their emotions.  \n\nSo when people hurt themselves, it makes them feel better because they're releasing their pain and anger.  Just like an abuser releases pain and anger when they punch someone else or punch a wall.  Even though their hand might hurt, they feel better because they've released it.  Unfortunatly, hurting others or yourself leaves people feeling guilty afterward.
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If the sadness is due to a specific event, therapy can help process the pain.  If there's no apparent cause, a physician or a psychiatrist can help.  Joining an online support group will answer your question much better.
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I don't know...\n\nBut the feeling and pain, comes from the brain... Try thinking about other stuff, when you go from full to hungry... I think its better to think than to puke (if you eat too much)\n\nEating slowly might help...
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Depression can cause a number of physical symptoms and reactions.  It is a combination of fear, anxiety, and stress which produces tension.  One of the ways your body reacts to tension  is muscle contraction.  This can manifest in tension headaches, or possibly in your case, back ache.  Stress and tension target the weakest most vulnerable part of your physical body, as well as your emotions.  \nDepression, clinically speaking, is a result of a chemical imbalance in the body produced by conflict at the soul level.  The limbic system responds to this stress, and  depression is a result of the chemical imbalance produced by the body in response.
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That's not true.  The brain gets the biggest hit.  That's why they're called EMOTIONAL.  As far as the other organs, you have to define how you measure "effect".  That is, everything gets kicked a little during an emotional wave, adrenals, muscles (including the heart), circulatory system, etc.  Just because the heart rate is the easiest to detect does not necessarily mean that it gets a bigger jolt than anything else.
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Depression can cause physical pain. You can find help and treatment options at http://depressionhurts.com/index.jsp
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Always remember, happiness is a state of the mind...\nwhen we are happy our mind is the one that gives us this feeling of happiness not the heart...-lil bro\n\nIts because of the Hypothalamus in the brain which controls our emotions. I wish I could take it out(or at least the part of it  which controls the emotions which I dunno where)...if only it werent that important...(it controls our whole body!) then we can live without emotions. Now that would be fun.   -me ü
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Hurt turns to anger, anger leads to suffering.
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Both. Love does cause pain, and sometimes good pain is love.
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Pain has no physical existence more than the process of thought does. Ergo if you have awareness you can burn or feel pain.\n\nI hope that truly evil people like Bush, Stalin, Hitler etc. are blessed in the next existence with a million souls each so they may experience the degree of pain and suffering they deserve.
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Your brain has no nereve endings, so it cant hurt. Its the sensation of building tension in the muscles or constricton causing pressure that causes the pain. The origin of the pain is what causes the shifts in pain location for eg. we hunch our bodies defensively when we are under stress which leads to constant muscle tenson across the shoulders and neck which eventually translates into the characteristic pattern of a tension headache (back, neck, shoulder, head). or if you have eye problems headaches can originate on the side of constant strain or pressure (left eye vs right).\n\nApart from eyes and migraine, certain substances (e.g drugs, drinks, food etc.) can trigger headaches. Hormonal (e.g. menstrual) changes, dehydration, tiredness and other states of biological disharmony can lead to headaches.
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Instincts can be associated with feelings, but instincts and feelings are always associated with the brain.  \n\nInstincts always associated with our brains unlike reflexes.  Reflexes sometimes only enter and then immediately leave our spinal cord (like stepping on a tack or being burned by a candle).\n\nThe instinctual part of our brain is called the limbic system.  It is known as the "oldest" part of our brain.  It is called this because evolutionarily, it was the first part of the brain to form.  Reptiles mainly only have a limbic system and almost every reaction is based on instincts, rather than conscious interpretation.  It is the limbic system that tells prey to run away and predators to attack.  It tells rattlesnakes to strike and frogs to jump away.  Instincts are "unconcious" meaning we don't always know why we do what we do, but they are not always associated with a feeling.  Instincts are completely separate from feelings, though certain feelings will trigger instinctual actions, while certain stimuli will elicit feelings we are not aware of the reason for.\nFor example:  The smell of a female dog in heat will instinctually cause a male dog to become aroused.  The smell produced an instinctual action and possibly a "feeling" as well.
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Researchers have found that feelings of intense romantic love are linked to activity in two areas of the brain, which have high levels of dopamine activity. But functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans found women's brains showed emotional responses, while men's showed activity linked to sexual arousal. The researchers also found activity in other areas of the brain changed - including one that another study showed was active when people ate chocolate.
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human emotions are regulated by the limbic system which is in the brain - not the mind. in a sense, some human emotions are instinctive.
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I think beating is worse cause at least you don't have to feel that type of pain and worse it could kill you or severly disfigure you.  Emotional pain from cheating is hard to but physical pain is far worse
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ofcourse love is not through brain or intestine or lungs its feeling 4rom heart.it doesnt depend on heart feelings it is through it