What causes a broken heart?

I have a pretty strong passive type personality and can push things aside and move on. But the deep ache of loss breaks my heart. That final goodbye is heart wrenching to me. Wither it is a physical loss of a loved one, or an emotional loss of a friendship. It would have to be a friendship that I put a lot of myself into. Also empathy for children, to see a child any child not just my own suffering in any type of way, that breaks my heart.

I believe the feeling of a broken heart is chemical within our own bodily systems and originates from the adrenal gland and sends a message to the brain. same kind of thing happens when we fall in love or get angry. A broken heart is an emotion. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong or add further information if I am on the right track.

If we understand that a broken heart is physical then it removes the mystery and we can better deal with it by learning to deny the triggers that bring the feeling to the surface. Try replacing those triggers when they crop up with a positive mental picture instead. Eventually you will have retrained those responses.

Hmmm..so many things..in so many different ways. The ones I felt, the challenges I faced in my life are, Manipulation, seeing and not believing, something lost, stuggles, name calling, unforgivable choices caused my broken heart. I could go on.. Everything happens for a reason. I have been through some seriouse hardship but i am a strong minded woman, I have learned and I continue to pay it forward in life, with everyone, I dont judge, hate, nor do I do the shoulda coulda woulda?? :-)

Healing a broken heart depends on who is doing the healing..everybody is different and a broken heart comes with so many different things. Mine has some healing that goes on through the years and every year. I have yet to have closure...

Im still healing but I know what I want and go for it and success is most defiantly in my present and future.

Falling truely in love with someone and this someone has no feelings for you back. Being around this person running in to this person that you fell in love with and your heart aches to be around this person that has no feelings for you and doesnt respect you enough to see how you feel ignoring your feelings and always comming into your life opening up deep wounds that never heal. Once one loves someone its best never to see the other person ever again. Myself I fell in love with a beautiful young woman, she got inside of me my heart and then broke it beyond repair. I now have no use for love, relationships I remain single never letting one into my life, my heart. Too top it off she still comes around to break my heart all over again.