Can a Broken heart literally kill you?

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Chazmatazz269 · Accepted Answer

Yes and no. Young people like to exaggerate the “pain” of heartbreak. They’re so frigging dramatic! Ell oh ell!
But with older couples, the number of people who die within a few months of their lifelong love is beyond coincidence, even when there are no life threatening illnesses or injuries in the second when the first passes. It’s tragically sad and somehow beautiful at the same time. It breaks my heart, but i’m not likely to die from it! Ell oh ell!

RolandCuthbert · Accepted Answer

I follow a police officer on line. His name is Tommy Norman. His daughter passed away from a drug overdose last year. Almost immediately after her passing, he suffered a heart attack.

He was just so hurt and heart-broken over his daughter. I alerted all my friends and family. We gave to his gofundme.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hpAvuSptN0U https://www.youtube.com/embed/-15M2hRtolE

Amy10223 · Accepted Answer

I remember being at an Amsterdam exhibit of the human body, I forget the name of it, but there I read that people, especially women, can doe of broken hearts. Everytime something tragic happens to you, and you are affected emotionally by it, your heart takes a toll. There have been accounts of women (and I'm guessing it can happen to men too) who grew very sad at unrequited love and who died earlier than normal because of it.

nymphxie · Accepted Answer

The stress can kill, the effects of a broken heart. I’ve heard stories of mothers dying when losing children because of the intense grief. It made them physically ill.

DubiousIntentions · Answer

I don't know if it can kill you, but it can hurt an awful lot. People with broken hearts have also been known to take their own lives. If there was just an easy way to mend a broken heart. Unfortunately, Father Time says there isn't.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Most people who have broken heart syndrome quickly recover and don't have long-lasting effects. But sometimes the condition occurs again. This is called recurrent takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Rarely, broken heart syndrome can cause death

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/broken-heart-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20354617

glennos89 · Answer

I doubt a broken heart itself can kill you but what can kill you is the fact that you can feel mentally broken into a million pieces which can cause severe depression and can give you the feeling of despare or make you suicidale. A broken heart is one of the worst pains we can experience as a human being and it should never been taking lightly. Especially if you know yourself that you are mentally not very stable or strong!

Exterminatore · Answer

I believe so. When my great grandmother died, my great grandfather died 3 weeks later. He refused to eat. They even caught him sneaking food they made for him in his pants pockets to throw out. He stated that she wasn’t here anymore and didn’t want to be either. This was not an attempt at starvation but rather a deep depression which made him loose his appetite.

I believe he died of a broken heart.

Anonymous · Answer

I have read and heard tell it sure can. Never for me except when I broke it off as a teen with my first love and for 7 years, I was never the same. One day got my closure before he married and got on with my life. I didn't feel the same about him anymore.

William7489 · Answer

No but it can feel like it. Perhaps in the much older people losing your spouse can be the impetus for you pretty much giving up the desire to live but no, being dumped or cheated on as bad as it is it’s not going to cause your demise.

Bethany22 · Answer

It could if it happens too often. They say that rejection and loneliness is just as deadly as smoking large quantities of cigarets per day.

loveslongnails · Answer

"Literally" ? Yes lol, but that's probably not what you mean. "Literally", if your heart is broken, as in "it doesn't work properly", yes it could kill you. But if you're talking about "heartbreak", then no. The anxiety and emotional distress that comes with "a broken heart" could kill you, if you allow it to, but not "literally".

dustybiker · Answer

It’s proven that a heart can shrink when a person suffers heavy grief.

NathanDavis · Answer

either kills you... or makes you write and compose great songs...

sirderpsalot123 · Answer

I have heard of old people dying of a broken heart after their wife/husband passes. Doesn't seem impossible.

whirled_up_girl · Answer

I've read a few articles about broken heart syndrome, I think there could be something to that.

NerdInDenial · Answer

Broken Heart Syndrome

Jdjfjcjj · Answer

I've heard stories of elder couple dying days after one another so maybe

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, I think that happens among older couples when one of them dies.

ArtemisSilver · Answer

It can certainly push someone already faltering over the edge.

AsaKyo · Answer

Why yes, I believe it can

driven159 · Answer

can contribute to it just like any depression

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

If you choose to lay in your loss then yes

BLP11520 · Answer

It happens more often than you think.

exitseven · Answer

It is called broken heart syndrome.

Joker_ · Answer

not me, I'm immortal

DailyAsk · Answer

No! A heart doesn’t break to begin with.

AngryCarl · Answer

A heart attack can kill you.

LimitedBenefits101 · Answer

Women believe that.

Anonymous · Answer

Nope.

Carolus · Answer

Dead inside, I am.

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