To relieve the pain caused by disappointment in love, from having been wounded in their feelings by a simple dose of a popular painkiller, says a new study
Having the "broken heart" is a phrase to indicate a situation where you have been injured in his feelings was coming off a disappointment in love, a loss of a home, a rejection or marginalization, and so on.
What to do in these cases? Besides having to cope with the usual trite and hackneyed advice on "life goes on", the "you better" or "time fixes everything," according to a new study that pain can be alleviated by means of a banal, prosaic, painkiller: paracetamol.
At this point, some might argue that the pain affects the physical pain and not the emotional. Good point. However, neuroscientists at the University of California at Los Angeles argue that the drug also can relieve the emotional pain simply because this type of pain is processed in the same area of the brain where the physical processes; acting on this is that it also acts on 'other.
The results of this study were published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, and took only three weeks to understand how paracetamol might also act in cases of emotional pain. In this time period, the researchers recruited and involved 62 people of both sexes who had suffered a wound sentimental.
The participants, divided randomly into two groups, has been taking the paracetamol, the dose of 1,000 mg (approximately two tablets), or placebo. The subjects were then report how they felt at night.
At the end of the test period, Professor Naomi Eisenberger and colleagues have been noted as among those who took the painkiller had shown a significant reduction in "pain" from hurt feelings, compared to those who belonged to the control group.
"The" broken heart "is not just a metaphor - the social pain and physical pain have much in common, 'says Eisenberger.
Far from the researchers advise to take a painkiller when both were injured in the feelings, the same note however as in some cases you can also use this method - especially when the emotional pain is so strong that it can be dangerous to your health and the person's life. Circumstances, they evaluated case by case basis with a specialist.
They are so many situations that may cause emotional pain. For example, "the refusal is a powerful experience for people - said Eisenberger - If you ask people to rethink some of their early negative experiences, are often refused, not being chosen to be part of a team or the 'have been excluded from some social group. "
Following the tests, including brain scans of participants, the researchers found that work done in the areas of the brain is the same in case of physical or emotional pain.
"From theory it follows logically that the systems of physical and social pain overlap, but it's still a bit 'hard to imagine. We assume a drug for the physical pain is not supposed to work also on the social pain, "concludes Eisenberger.
Apparently though ... And as stated by the authors of the study: "Research is a sort of validation." It suggests that there is something "real" - therefore also the physical, if you will - in this experience of pain.
Having the "broken heart" is a phrase to indicate a situation where you have been injured in his feelings was coming off a disappointment in love, a loss of a home, a rejection or marginalization, and so on.
What to do in these cases? Besides having to cope with the usual trite and hackneyed advice on "life goes on", the "you better" or "time fixes everything," according to a new study that pain can be alleviated by means of a banal, prosaic, painkiller: paracetamol.
At this point, some might argue that the pain affects the physical pain and not the emotional. Good point. However, neuroscientists at the University of California at Los Angeles argue that the drug also can relieve the emotional pain simply because this type of pain is processed in the same area of the brain where the physical processes; acting on this is that it also acts on 'other.
The results of this study were published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, and took only three weeks to understand how paracetamol might also act in cases of emotional pain. In this time period, the researchers recruited and involved 62 people of both sexes who had suffered a wound sentimental.
The participants, divided randomly into two groups, has been taking the paracetamol, the dose of 1,000 mg (approximately two tablets), or placebo. The subjects were then report how they felt at night.
At the end of the test period, Professor Naomi Eisenberger and colleagues have been noted as among those who took the painkiller had shown a significant reduction in "pain" from hurt feelings, compared to those who belonged to the control group.
"The" broken heart "is not just a metaphor - the social pain and physical pain have much in common, 'says Eisenberger.
Far from the researchers advise to take a painkiller when both were injured in the feelings, the same note however as in some cases you can also use this method - especially when the emotional pain is so strong that it can be dangerous to your health and the person's life. Circumstances, they evaluated case by case basis with a specialist.
They are so many situations that may cause emotional pain. For example, "the refusal is a powerful experience for people - said Eisenberger - If you ask people to rethink some of their early negative experiences, are often refused, not being chosen to be part of a team or the 'have been excluded from some social group. "
Following the tests, including brain scans of participants, the researchers found that work done in the areas of the brain is the same in case of physical or emotional pain.
"From theory it follows logically that the systems of physical and social pain overlap, but it's still a bit 'hard to imagine. We assume a drug for the physical pain is not supposed to work also on the social pain, "concludes Eisenberger.
Apparently though ... And as stated by the authors of the study: "Research is a sort of validation." It suggests that there is something "real" - therefore also the physical, if you will - in this experience of pain.