How Emotional Pain Affects Your Brain and Mental Health

It is easy to follow your heart, but not many people talk about what to do when the heart is aching. Unbalanced relationships, emotional neglect, breakups, loneliness, or even being unloved by someone take a great toll on your mental health. Suffering in terms of emotions is not confined to the heart but rather is a mental burden that runs in your mind, behaviors, operations, and even yourself.

In modern psychology, this connection has become the so-called heart-mind loop, the process...