Broken hearts and shattered souls can end lives, scientifically speaking…

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I am a human, and a poet, and a pracititioner. Let me tell you that you can die from a broken heart. There is this thing called takotsubo cardiomyopathy. It’s emotional or physical stress-induced cardiomyopathy.

Emotional trauma / death / loss of someone or something / domestic abuse / financial loss / confrontation whether physical or verbal between people with opposing views / some goodbyes / even social anxiety can trigger it.

So when people say they have sharp pain inside their chest over something emotional — something that might seem trivial or normal to you, but it’s not a heart attack either, please believe their pain.

Please, believe them when they have shortness of breath. Believe them when they feel dizzy, even if it looks like they are just ignoring you while you are shouting at them. Believe them when their heart starts racing. Believe them when they start sweating about something that doesn’t make sense to you.

Please, believe that it’s a life-or-death situation for them. Believe that a broken heart can lead to a heart attack, and to death.Or sometimes, just to silence. To sitting very still. To breathing carefully because everything hurts. Believe that too. People aren’t making things out of nothing. And the pain and trauma are not just psychological. Even if it is just in their heads, please, believe that even overthinking can kill people. Anything that impacts the brain does something biologically and genetically to people.

Please, believe people and let them breathe when they are stressed about a presentation, a party, a meeting, a job interview, a marriage proposal, a friendship breakup, a relationship end, a fight with siblings, or the loss of a parent. They say death is rare with takotsubo cardiomyopathy in textbooks, but the thing is, life happens outside these textbooks.

I have seen people die over “grow past it” and “it happens with everyone,” “chill, it’s life,” and “others have it worse” kinds of things. I have seen people die over confessions, or not being able to confess their emotions. I have seen people die because of taunts for not performing well in exams. I have seen people die because a toxic manager insulted them in front of their colleagues due to personal grudges and office politics.

Heartbreaks and heartaches are real, and they weaken heart muscles. They can trigger cardiac arrest. They can end someone’s life.

— Sadia Hakim

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  1. Urwa Noor Avatar
    Urwa Noor

    yes it’s true, there’s a girl in my sister’s university, her teacher, a psychopath, idk what she said or done to the girl but the girl never stayed the same after that , she’s afraid of that teacher and whenever she sees her she started shivering with fear, i think a person can easily with fear.

    1. Sadia Hakim Avatar
      Sadia Hakim

      Thank you for sharing it here, Urwa. This is true. Your nervous system gets disturbed around certain kind of people or abusers. I hope she overcomes this fear. I have this experience in uni life, but I always hated that teacher, I never shivered in front of her. Because such teachers are not worth an ounce of respect. They are not worth being called teacher. They are there to earn haram and torture students who don’t worship them.

  2. Ayesha Avatar
    Ayesha

    You wrote something thats so true. And you know whats worse? When we know nobody cares so we cry alone. Just hearing the footsteps we wipe our tears and bring a smile on our face so nobody think we are weak etc. Honestly people get tired. Idk, my body reacts so worse when am in any stress or pain.

    1. Sadia Hakim Avatar
      Sadia Hakim

      Thank you for reading and leaving your thoughts below this post. I can understand how you feel when you are stressed. Your nervous system shows it through physical signs. And I totally agree that people get tired. Hearts get tired when they don’t see humanity around.

  3. Ayesha Avatar
    Ayesha

    It feels heavy on chest, pain in heart, eyes full of tears, shivering feets and hands and its terrible. It take days to get normal again.. and for some people i can get it why they die.. some just can’t survive the trauma and cant bear that much pain so they just die and its so sad…

    1. Sadia Hakim Avatar
      Sadia Hakim

      I can feel the weight of these words, Ayesha. That’s so tragic, and the biggest tragedy is that people around just do not care about your pain until you die.

  4. muddasir ali.haider Avatar
    muddasir ali.haider

    Throwing facts, and what we feel 😔

    1. Sadia Hakim Avatar
      Sadia Hakim

      Thank you for reading, Muddasir.

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