September 19, 2011
BREAKING UP REALLY DOES BREAK YOUR HEART
BREAKING UP REALLY DOES BREAK YOUR HEART
You we re just DUMPED by the person you thought was the One.
You’re moping around campus in your I’ve-given-up sweatpants and eating all the fat and sugar ( pizza and chocolate are the favored food groups) you can afford when you come across a flyer seeking people who are still pining for their exes. You think, at last, someone to talk to! A fellow passenger in the voyage of failure. Misery LOVES company..
When about 15 jilted and brokenhearted dumped lovers responded to the ads, which had been distributed around the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Rutgers University, they discovered they were actually being invited to take part in a psychological study: researchers wanted to measure the ACTUAL pain felt by people who were dumped and brokenhearted. Jilted.TAKE ME.
Each jilted student was hooked up to a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and asked to look at a picture of his or her ex (which — oh,why does it HURT SO BAD ) the dumpees had provided.
After looking at the pictures of their lost loves, they were asked to count backward from 8,211 by 7s, then look at another picture of a person they knew but were not in love with, then count backward again.
As if that exercise wasn’t agonizing enough, the participants had to do it five more times.YES, 5 MORE TIMES.
Lucy Brown, professor of neuroscience and neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, acknowledges it wasn’t an easy task.
“We’re asking them to think about the person they want to see more than anyone else. And then we’re asking them not to feel that feeling,” she says, referring to the backward-counting task, which was a distraction technique designed to get students’ brains to focus on something other than the no-good bums who dumped them. WOW…
Meanwhile, scientists were using fMRI to track the participants’ brain activity as they looked at the emotionally loaded photos.
As any JILTGIRL column reader can tell you in a snap- the brain areas associated with the pain of romantic rejection were the same ones involved in reward, motivation, physical pain, craving and addiction.
(For instance, looking at photos of exes lit up regions that are activated in cocaine addicts’ brains — which may help explain quite a lot of the plot of those Twilight books.) I KNEW I WAS ADDICTED TO LOVE-REALLY.
It also helps explain why feelings of heartbreak are so hard to get over and even harder to control. NO KIDDING…
The study notes, with clear and scientific academics , that the jilted students had engaged in activities such as “inappropriate phoning, writing or e-mailing, pleading for reconciliation, sobbing for hours, drinking too much and/or making dramatic entrances and exits into the rejecter’s home, place of work or social space to express anger, despair or passionate love.”
HEY -these are all the things JILTGIRLS do BEST. Grovelling.I call these our coping skills.
Sound familiar, anyone? Done that- been there – drunk dialed- obsessed – called an hung up – pre caller d ID days-
wrote pathetic letters- cried and cried…ate a whole box of cookies .chain smoked .
At least in one sense, this pain is a good thing, says Professor Brown. “In a way, nature gave us this response as a protection,” she says. “It helps us keep relationships going under adverse circumstances, which is important for keeping our species going.”
Plus, in some cases, students were already undergoing reappraisal success, which is neurological-speak for remembering the less convivial aspects of an ex — the first step in getting over him or her.In other words- TRY to concentrate on the Bad stuff- like his bad breath – or that he asked your best girlfriend for a hand job. Then blamed HER for being a snitch when she told you what a cheating jerk he was.
Let’s hope that news was worth the ordeal for the study’s guinea pigs, who had been single for an average of 63 days, after relationships that lasted an average of 21 months. (One had been going for four years. Ouch.)
YES- now we know – breakups really DO hurt.
Helen Fisher, the renowned biological anthropologist and one of the paper’s co-authors, interviewed some of the participants and said that the pain was hurtful – even fora professional to see..
“She said she’d never want to do it again,” says Professor Brown, who nevertheless hopes her experiment will be repeated with a bigger set of jilted lovers.
Professor Brown thinks it’s helpful for people to know that breaking up is SUPPOSED to hurt.
Sob- whimper …. I KNEW THAT..or ell.se you would have not have been in love and lost a partr of yourself- forever-…
“One guy called back the next day and said he thought the self-knowledge really helped,” she says.
By the way, for those trying this at home, that counting-back-by-7s-from-8,211 technique may help you forget your ex, but only for about a minute.
In extreme cases- if a GORGEOUS guy comes along and takes to you Paris for the weekend – I guarante it will be a GREAT band aid for your poor little heart.
Get back on that bar stool of love— sigh…
JILTGIRL SAYS..
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2002688,00.html#ixzz1Y2DvT1lx
You we re just DUMPED by the person you thought was the One.
You’re moping around campus in your I’ve-given-up sweatpants and eating all the fat and sugar ( pizza and chocolate are the favored food groups) you can afford when you come across a flyer seeking people who are still pining for their exes. You think, at last, someone to talk to! A fellow passenger in the voyage of failure. Misery LOVES company..
When about 15 jilted and brokenhearted dumped lovers responded to the ads, which had been distributed around the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Rutgers University, they discovered they were actually being invited to take part in a psychological study: researchers wanted to measure the ACTUAL pain felt by people who were dumped and brokenhearted. Jilted.TAKE ME.
Each jilted student was hooked up to a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and asked to look at a picture of his or her ex (which — oh,why does it HURT SO BAD ) the dumpees had provided.
After looking at the pictures of their lost loves, they were asked to count backward from 8,211 by 7s, then look at another picture of a person they knew but were not in love with, then count backward again.
As if that exercise wasn’t agonizing enough, the participants had to do it five more times.YES, 5 MORE TIMES.
Lucy Brown, professor of neuroscience and neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, acknowledges it wasn’t an easy task.
“We’re asking them to think about the person they want to see more than anyone else. And then we’re asking them not to feel that feeling,” she says, referring to the backward-counting task, which was a distraction technique designed to get students’ brains to focus on something other than the no-good bums who dumped them. WOW…
Meanwhile, scientists were using fMRI to track the participants’ brain activity as they looked at the emotionally loaded photos.
As any JILTGIRL column reader can tell you in a snap- the brain areas associated with the pain of romantic rejection were the same ones involved in reward, motivation, physical pain, craving and addiction.
(For instance, looking at photos of exes lit up regions that are activated in cocaine addicts’ brains — which may help explain quite a lot of the plot of those Twilight books.) I KNEW I WAS ADDICTED TO LOVE-REALLY.
It also helps explain why feelings of heartbreak are so hard to get over and even harder to control. NO KIDDING…
The study notes, with clear and scientific academics , that the jilted students had engaged in activities such as “inappropriate phoning, writing or e-mailing, pleading for reconciliation, sobbing for hours, drinking too much and/or making dramatic entrances and exits into the rejecter’s home, place of work or social space to express anger, despair or passionate love.”
HEY -these are all the things JILTGIRLS do BEST. Grovelling.I call these our coping skills.
Sound familiar, anyone? Done that- been there – drunk dialed- obsessed – called an hung up – pre caller d ID days-
wrote pathetic letters- cried and cried…ate a whole box of cookies .chain smoked .
At least in one sense, this pain is a good thing, says Professor Brown. “In a way, nature gave us this response as a protection,” she says. “It helps us keep relationships going under adverse circumstances, which is important for keeping our species going.”
Plus, in some cases, students were already undergoing reappraisal success, which is neurological-speak for remembering the less convivial aspects of an ex — the first step in getting over him or her.In other words- TRY to concentrate on the Bad stuff- like his bad breath – or that he asked your best girlfriend for a hand job. Then blamed HER for being a snitch when she told you what a cheating jerk he was.
Let’s hope that news was worth the ordeal for the study’s guinea pigs, who had been single for an average of 63 days, after relationships that lasted an average of 21 months. (One had been going for four years. Ouch.)
YES- now we know – breakups really DO hurt.
Helen Fisher, the renowned biological anthropologist and one of the paper’s co-authors, interviewed some of the participants and said that the pain was hurtful – even fora professional to see..
“She said she’d never want to do it again,” says Professor Brown, who nevertheless hopes her experiment will be repeated with a bigger set of jilted lovers.
Professor Brown thinks it’s helpful for people to know that breaking up is SUPPOSED to hurt.
Sob- whimper …. I KNEW THAT..or ell.se you would have not have been in love and lost a partr of yourself- forever-…
“One guy called back the next day and said he thought the self-knowledge really helped,” she says.
By the way, for those trying this at home, that counting-back-by-7s-from-8,211 technique may help you forget your ex, but only for about a minute.
In extreme cases- if a GORGEOUS guy comes along and takes to you Paris for the weekend – I guarante it will be a GREAT band aid for your poor little heart.
Get back on that bar stool of love— sigh…
JILTGIRL SAYS..
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2002688,00.html#ixzz1Y2DvT1lx
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