Using Science To Somehow Cure Heartbreak

One of the most painful things that a human being could experience is a heartbreak. A person who has been scarred by this experience can succumb to depression, anxiety, and sometimes, even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Love and heartbreak often go together. Sometimes, the suffering that comes with the end of a relationship helps us grow. It can force us to slow down, reflect on what happened, and learn to avoid repeating past mistakes. But other times, the suffering just crushes our soul. The pain becomes too much to bear, and it prevents us from moving on with our lives or opening ourselves up to positive relationships.

Thankfully, there are many ways that can help us move on, and one of these is science.

Early this year… a real-life technique for memory modification in response to heartbreak hit the newsstands. The coverage centered on Alain Brunet, a psychiatrist and expert in post-traumatic stress disorder at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In his lab, Brunet works with victims of what he calls “romantic betrayals.” These can range from harassment by a former lover to sudden abandonment by a long-term partner. He uses a technique known as reconsolidation therapy, which combines a drug-based treatment with practical exercises to change the emotional content of disturbing recollections. “We don’t treat the symptoms,” Brunet says of his method, “we treat the memory.”

Know more about Brunet’s method over at Nautilus.

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It's an early gyroscope for boats. The little doodad in the middle is a level. If the bubble is on the right, everybody lean right. If the bubble is on the left, everybody lean left.

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It's the only piece left after the famous burning of the libraries in Alexandria. It's a shelf bracket that was in a maintenance man's hand as he ran out of the building.

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It's a caliper used in Roman times as they were practicing their famous shield-to-shield phalanx formation. The officers would measure the distance between each head using this tool.

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It's a section of track from an old Hot Wheels Monorail set. Mattel quickly discontinued that product line as kids never really grasped the value of mass transit.

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It was a tool used to measure the "Angle of the Dangle". But it was rendered obsolete when it was discovered that the "Motion of the Ocean" was a more important unit of measure.

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Its a boomerang for an OCD Australian, or anyone else that uses a boomerang and has OCD, because even their throws have to be perfect and level.

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The first Hotwheels ramp released in 1895. It includes a futuristic hovering horseless carriage from the year 2000. It was not popular upon release because it was too ahead of it's time.

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This is a quality of life graphing instrument. One places the bubble at the top indicating ones current time. Then the bubble is released and its final location determines if ones quality of life increases or decreases over time.

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This custom leveling unit is used by big bankers and other one-percenters to make certain they retain the advantage of an unlevel playing field.

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Bear with me here. You know those ramps they have at the bowling alley for kids and others who can't heft a bowling ball? Well, same thing here, but for people who can't use a cue stick on a pool table.
Okay, it may not be all that funny but I could be on to something here....

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This is an old 1920s-era zoetrope type of device. When you look through the eyepiece and slide it along the track, you see a nice young flapper woman doing something just unthinkable. Geez, what was the world coming to?

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An early prototype of a future self propelled boomerang that ran on kinetic energy. Just vigorously run the slider on the track and then be amazed!

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