Posted on 10/23/2018 9:34:59 AM PDT by rktman
Researchers from Rice University say that people who struggle to overcome grief caused by loss of a loved one are at greater risk of suffering from potentially deadly levels of inflammation. Conversely, those who have an easier time dealing with a spouse’s death are prone to healthier outcomes.
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I say the inflamation is caused by alochol consupmtion or binge eating and not “heart break”... but what do I know?
Mega doses of vitamin C?
I don’t doubt it.
One sees too many couples, one spouse dies, the lonely, grieving spouse follows thereafter. And not by suicide
I think it’s more that sufficient stress, of any type, can cause inflammation.
Yea, I get to see my sweetie even sooner! Right away I see Jesus.
LOL on the anti Trumpers.
But actually this has been long know as Broken Heart Syndrome and only in the last decades more understood. It is now referred to a Takotsubo, a Japanese term the medical community has adopted.
A family member went through this experience. It is fairly uncommon and is generally only confirmed in the cath lab when there is no blockage of cardiac arteries but Cardio Myopathy and enlarged ventricles with poor ejection fraction exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy
Of course, you can always have someone with developed heart disease have a heart attack from exertion, injury or stress.
Is this ‘inflammation’ of the heart only, or other organs, as well.
I guess that this guy won’t have much in the way of inflammation:
She replied, “I’d take half, and then leave you.”
“Great,” he said. “I won $12 yesterday. Here’s $6. Stay in touch.”
lol
heartbreak can also cause heart disease:
Heartache and heartbreak--the link between depression and cardiovascular disease.
I think you are right.
Stress is as admitted factor in heart disease, and grief just presents a unique form of stress in the body’s systems. Clinicians know many of the signs found with people suffering too much stress, for too long, see similar factors displayed by people whose grief goes on and on.
Unfortunately, there is no one pattern of grief or timetable to it that everyone follows. Education can help I think, help those going through it understand it, but most people never get it before they are already dealing with it and often then are not in the mood to listen. It seems you have to let people deal with grief their own way.
Agree. Plus WHAT they binge eat matters. Most people eat sweets, which definitely cause inflammation. And cavities, not totally unrelated.
We had a family member who suffered from this after he lost his wife of many decades. The syndrome isn’t BS.
Ten years later I met the woman I'm now married to. She was a widow. I've been very happy since marrying her, but I don't recommend widowhood or widowerhood to anyone.
If it happens to you, don't rush into another marriage. Make sure you've finished grieving before you try for romance again.
I can accept the possibility that deep mourning can be fatal.
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