![]() ![]() ![]() When researchers asked these participants to look at photographs of their former amours they noticed that certain areas of the brain were activated, including those areas associated with attachment, addiction and craving. They also admitted to thinking of their ex up to 85 percent of the time, longing for a reunion, and indulging in behaviours 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.” All of the participants shared one tragic similarity: they were still “intensely ‘in love’” with their heartbreaker. Researchers at Stony Brook University in upstate New York used fMRI technology to observe the brains of 15 college-age men and women who had been dumped recently. The conclusion builds on previous studies that suggest romantic love is a form of addiction. Science finally explains why you crave a reunion with your awful ex: romantic love is a “specific form of addiction” that turns into a wickedly insatiable craving when you get dumped.Ī recent study, which appeared in the July issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology, suggests that there are parallels between the cravings of a cocaine addict and the desperate behaviours (calling, texting, crying, begging for a second chance) employed by the heartbroken. ![]()
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