Can a breakup/heartbreak make you physically sick?

So my girlfriend of 3years, the girl i love the most asked me for some time to think about what she wants, space for herself... I was at her home about 11pm.. We still have a good relationship shes doing everything to make it easy for me, anyway i spent the night at her home, i cried a lot during the discussion, i felt really hopeless like my life was gonna end.. but i didnt fell sick... But when i woke up, yesterday my body was different.. At first i felt a small thing on my stomach, but when i arrived my home and was getting ready to lunch i just felt my stomach hurting the feeling that i need to vomit, a few headaches and my body feeling weak, i spent the rest of the day on my bed feeling miserable.. Today i woke up, the headaches are gone, my body doesnt feel weak, but i still feel my stomach fucked up and that throw up feeling isnt gone, i am also with diarrhea, a lot of it, like my body is rejecting what i eat.... I was just wondering if this could be because of what happened between me and my girl, as it just started when our fight started too and ce heard this could happen and was kinda normal..

 

Well, yeah. When I got the phone call saying my ex had committed suicide, I had a physical reaction to it. These awful psoriasis-looking bumps appeared all over my skin, from head to toe. They itched and they took about six months to finally go away. It was miserable. Heartache sucks.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy

although what you describe sound more like standard very stressed out syndrome than that.

 

yeah, emotionally intense events can have an effect on you. it's not impossible that there is some physical cause occurring at the same time, but the emotional reaction alone could do it.


hope that things can get better soon!

 

wow, that's got to be one of the harshest things ever, especially if you were close. sorry that it happened

 

Oh, it super sucked. I don't ever want to feel that kind of pain again. I wouldn't wish it on anyone else, either.

 

Early November, 2007. I ended up in hospital when the woman I changed my life for dumped me for no reason (I later found out she was fucking the guy she had just bought a car from. And I gave her the money to buy the car).

I was unable to eat or drink for some days and was rehydrated with drips. I think I was out of commission for a week.

yes, mental anguish can indeed make you physically ill.

 

another way to think about this is: you guys are talking about LOSS.

grief counsellors know that the body mirrors Loss in many fascinating ways. one of their first questions of the Client is to ask whether they (the Client) is eating and sleeping normally.

Ha! and you thought you were just a mind on top of a body didn't you?! that the two were not connected.

once more, Ha!

 

Yes.

It's also possible the negative stress, lowered your immune system and you caught the flu.

But yes as an answer to your question, the mental-emotional connection to the body can cause physical psycho-sematic illnesses or lowers the immune system leaving your body much more susceptible to pathogens and thus illness.

 

Yeah man, I got so sick a long long time ago when my high school girlfriend broke my heart. Took over a decade for me to speak to her again. She wants to talk every now and then nowadays as friends and I oblige her but even now it's a little rough cuz it makes me remember that pain and how bad I suffered while getting over her. Physically sick the first maybe 5 mos. Then just sick in the soul for another year and a half.

 

Yep, stress can kill, and it can also make you sick.
I_need_a_miracle sounds, that sounds like an eczema outbreak, which can be stress related as well.

 

I definitely think so. I messed up an opportunity with this girl the other day.. thought of all the things I could ave done/said since. It will be a while before I get to see her again. I had a cold at the time, and the feeling of regret stressed me out and I could feel it making me more sick