Healing a Broken Heart
Dr. Gary Bell
It’s normal for us to need time to ruminate and go over a romantic break-up in minute detail when we feel like we were the one who was dumped. Break-ups can qualify as traumatic events and telling and re-telling the break-up story is a relatively normal reaction if it was traumatic for you. However, if you’re telling the same story two or three months after the break-up to the same friends; feeling that you’re more “depressed” than “just sad;” experiencing emotional pain that is keeping you from engaging in your normal routine, it’s likely going to qualify as “too long.” Unfortunately, there’s not a magic number for how many weeks...
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