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Why Do We Listen to Sad Music After a Breakup?
How to apply the wisdom of psychology to fix your broken heart
We’ve all been there. The overwhelming pain of heartbreak can be too much to bear. Instead of trying to improve the situation, you choose to turn on Spotify and listen to sad music until the early hours of the morning.
As the clock ticks away, minutes turn into hours while you overthink every action during the entirety of your now-extinct relationship.
You want the pain to end, but it doesn’t.
You want the suffering to stop, but it won’t.
During these times of heartbreak, the only thing which goes away is our sense of rationale and self-control in a quest for answers.
The slow strumming of a guitar accompanied by an emotional voice is enough for any broken heart to shatter into pieces. What once was a beautiful & loving relationship is now merely a memory; a recollection of past events that shall never transpire again.
An Uncomfortable Truth
Although it may initially seem counterintuitive, these periods of heartbreak are what define us as a person.
We can choose to either succumb to a perpetual cycle of depression and emotional pain caused by one…
