It has surely happened to you that you were disappointed and decided to break up with your partner. Did your body react this way too?
Breakups are difficult for many reasons. Feelings are not pleasant and often we are haunted by doubts and real nightmares. All this is also known on the physical level. Breakup stress it also strongly affects our physical well-being.
This is how our body reacts to a breakup...
Sleep problems
A breakup can cause us an increase in anxiety and sleep problems. These problems are said to appear mainly in people who are otherwise more nervous, and in those who have invested a lot in their relationship. Sleep problems are manifested in excessive sleep, insomnia or an increased number of nightmares.
Chest pain
After a breakup, many people also experience physical pain in the chest, from which the saying that "our heart hurts" comes from. And there is no other remedy in the world for this than an abundance of time and patience.
Skin problems
Skin problems are said to appear for two reasons - after a breakup, a person usually (not necessarily) spends less time on personal hygiene for a while, and stress hormones have a negative effect on the skin's condition. Mostly this is known in the increase of acne and other irregularities.
Pain in the muscles
Stress can supposedly cause muscles in a specific area to contract, causing pain in different parts of the body. You can avoid this with plenty of sports, which will also have a beneficial effect on your psychological well-being.
Loss or increase in appetite
All breakups are different and everyone reacts to them differently. But each certainly contains an unpleasant measure of stress. Stress causes some to lose and some to increase appetite. After a breakup, an individual's figure usually changes - some people lose weight, while others gain weight.
