When a relationship ends, we experience different emotional changes and habits that can make the separation of that person something unbearable and the effect of falling in love can be extremely addictive. Unlike the saying goes that we love with the heart and not with the brain, scientists have shown that it is actually the opposite.
Have you ever wondered why when we break up romantically with another person it's so difficult to focus our attention on other matters? According to scientific research, what happens is that we go through a kind of withdrawal.
According to a study by the State University of New York via La Nación, the neurons' reaction that are stimulated by the infatuation are similar to the desire generated by the use of cocaine, so it's not difficult to understand why it's so hard to stop "loving him/her".
In accordance with the same report, the neurological responses that our brain is experiencing when we fall in love (and specially in the break up) are the same that are activated when someone is under the influence of hardcore drugs.
It 's because of these neural reactions that when a relationship ended things can get out of control. According to an Albert Einstein College of Medicine study, when someone is abandoned by the person who he/she loves, the loss and grief feelings can be so huge they can cause clinical depression, and in extreme cases suicides and homicides.
The researchers studied 10 women and 5 men's brains who had recently been left by their partners, but they still felt deeply in love. The participants looked at pictures of their former partners and scientist discovered that the brain sections associated with reward, motivation, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorders were activated.
This is why you shouldn't feel bad if you find it so hard to forget that person. The break up process is long and painful, but also transient.
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