can a heart physically be broken when someone is emotionally broken hearted?
Mrs. Rodriguez* was admitted to the hospital for complaints of shortness of breath and chest pain. After five days of diagnostic tests and blood tests, she was found to be fine . A psychiatry consult was ordered and a psychiatrist came to make one last evaluation on Mrs. Rodriguez* before the decision was made to release her. Doctors did not mention any of their findings or lack of findings to her and she was frustrated. "Why am i still here she asked, can you please read my records and tell me what the doctors have concluded?" I agreed to read the doctors progress notes and get back to her. Reading through the notes and evaluations it was concluded that Mrs. Rodriguez heart was failing according to the doctor from depression, depression from losing her husband several years back to cancer. She spoke to me once about him and called him the 'perfect man' and 'the man of her dreams'! She was happily married for 50 years and felt an immense and unsurvivalable loss when her husband passed away. Apparently Mrs. Rodriguez heart never recuperated from the loss and her heart was indeed breaking. Mrs Rodriguez did not have a heart attack as was suspected but she was indeed suffering from a broken heart that manifested itself in physical pain and in the very beginnings of heart failure. How many milligrams of Zoloft can fix a broken heart?

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very interesting story. Seems to make sense - does this mean that happiness makes you healthy?
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