According to
recent studies, it’s possible to die from heart failure after an intense
emotional event! It’s called Stress Cardiomyopathy. It happens when emotional
events such as death or divorce cause adrenaline levels in the body to rise to
such high levels for days on end that the heart begins to die.
Stress hormones
are so high that they begin to “stun” the heart into failure. The occurrence
was often misdiagnosed as a heart attack. Researchers found that, even though
symptoms are similar, they are slightly different conditions.
Because of the
massive amounts of continuous adrenaline, or epinephrine, from emotional events
the body can experience chest pain, fluid in the lungs, shortness of breath and
even heart failure.(http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org)
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