Title: 3 Things That Happen To Your Body When You're Sad
Headings: 3 Physical Side Effects Of Sadness
3 Physical Side Effects Of Sadness
1. Your Heart Literally Hurts
2. Your Facial Recognition Skills & Memory Recollection Improve
3. Your Appetite Changes

Content: 1. Your Heart Literally Hurts
Believe it or not, you can literally die from a broken heart. If your sadness is the result of grieving (particularly if you're grieving the loss of a loved one), you could be at higher-than-average risk for developing a disorder called cardiomyopathy, or "broken heart syndrome." When this happens, your body may perceive your grief as stress (or you may actually just become stressed out by the intensity of your grief); this can both weaken your immune system and make it easier for your sympathetic nervous system to initiate your "fight or flight" response. As you may already know, when this response is triggered, your body releases the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline, and too much of these hormones can lead to high blood pressure and high blood sugar. And there's some even scarier news: If you're experiencing a particularly rough episode of cardiomyopathy, your heart could stop pumping blood as strongly as it's meant to, which results in heart attack symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, arm pain and sweating. Cardiomyopathy can result in heart failure, too — so while you're unlikely to develop cardiomypathy from sadness, it's still a good reminder to take your grief-related sadness seriously, and take care of yourself. 2.