Psych at Work

Again... an absence of posts from me! I'm disappointed in myself right now, but there are major life changes happening, so it's not easy... I'm about to move back to my regular home down south after an internship and I'm trying to get over a nasty breakup. It's ugly - the kind where your heart gets ripped out, the pieces put in a blender, and then the liquified bits set on fire... and then you can use your imagination.

So of course it's fabulous timing that a new study says that points out that brain areas involved in dealing with a break up (or looking at the photo of the one that broke your heart) is also associated with craving and addiction. Obviously it's hard to dig through the mass media coverage ("Will we soon have medical interventions to help get over the heartbreak?" "Why yes, CNN... soon you can take Vicodin for the heart!" - so I might be ad-libbing a bit, but you get the point), and there are a lot of reasons not to jump to any big conclusions or generalizations about all people experiencing a break up, but I have to say that right now, I wish I was a little less aware of scientific research because I find these results pretty disheartening (pun only somewhat intended).

Anyone have any fabulous advice?