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When Emotional Pain Becomes Physical Sensation

I can feel my heart breaking literally in my chest when I think about my father and the physical pain is so real I check for bruises.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief and heartbreak can manifest as actual somatic experience as the body processes emotional wounds through physical sensation.

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