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Treating the Pain of a Broken Heart

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Cyper Ball and Rejection in the Brain

People who experience being left out in the game still have some amazingly strong reactions. The results took the nero science community by storm and made many scholars realize that we hadn't given the pain of rejection the scientific attention it deserved. We are set up to value connection, to value social connection so much that our brains have figured out a way to use circatry which is typically there to keep us from feeling physical pain. To me, that's really amazing... I don't know if i might have normal fears that i might be ok with people not liking me or something like that. One of the things you take away from this kind of society is that everybody was wired to takeaways from

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