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Labors Lost? Memories of Childbirth
I’m told, by women I trust, that childbirth is an experience unlike any other. These women have vivid and enduring memories of labor and birth, becoming a mother, giving life. They recall the event as
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Rx for Sisyphus: Take two Tylenol…
For the French philosopher and writer Albert Camus, the Greek myth of Sisyphus perfectly captured the human condition. Sisyphus was condemned to a life of meaningless activity—pushing a boulder up a hill again and again
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Broken hearts really can be painful
Zee News: New Delhi: “Broken-hearted” is not just a metaphor as researchers have now revealed that social pain and physical pain actually have a lot in common. In the study, Naomi Eisenberger of the University
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In the Brain, Broken Hearts Hurt Like Broken Bones
TIME: Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can hurt just as much. Indeed, according to converging evidence reported in a new review in Current Directions in Psychological Science, physical and social pain
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Broken Hearts Are Truly Painful, Research Shows
The Huffington Post: If you’ve ever gone through extreme grief, a rough divorce or a break-up, you’ll know this to be true: that aching feeling in your heart truly hurts, and now research backs it
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Nursing a broken heart? How taking a paracetamol could dull the pain of rejection
Daily Mail: It’s what songwriters have been saying for years, and now scientists agree – love really does hurt. But what the ballads don’t tell us is that a simple dose of paracetamol could help
