The science behind a broken heart explains all

Our brains are designed to panic when the love that sustains us is suddenly removed, says JP O’ Malley.

I awoke at 5am to a cynical grey sky that had smoothered the morning before it had begun. In the pit of my stomach, a deep pain, like another being had somehow made its way in there. My muscles ached, and a stabbing sensation pulsated in my chest.

‘Man up’, I kept telling myself. ‘Man the fuck up’.