Few experiences feel as overwhelming as losing someone you love or living through an intensely stressful event. While most people think of heartbreak as an emotional wound, physicians have learned ...

Passing quietly away from sheer heartbreak is a trope that pops up in myth and fantasy. In the Star Wars universe, Padmé Amidala may have died of a broken heart after her husband turned to the dark ...

Mary*, 28, was on vacation with her boyfriend when she found out he had been cheating on her for months (and promptly dumped him). It was a huge international trip she’d told all her coworkers at her ...

The agonizing feeling of a recent heartbreak might sting a little harder on Valentine's Day, and while this sensation might seem never-ending, healing from a breakup is crucial. A Baylor College of ...

One of the greatest misconceptions about breakups is that they leave you broken. Injured. Clipped and defective. Your heart has shattered, and it’s going to take a lifetime to put it back together ...

Heartbreak cures are as old as time, or at least as old as the Common Era. Around the year 1 C.E., the Roman poet Ovid followed up “The Art of Love,” his dating manual in verse, with an antidote ...