Tag: heartbreak and mental health

• How Breakups Can Affect the Brain—Especially After Childhood Trauma

  

  Romantic breakups can do more than break your heart—they can change your brain. Research shows that people with childhood trauma who go through painful breakups may have smaller hippocampus sizes, a part of the brain involved in memory and emotion. This article explores how trauma compounds over time and affects the brain.

  Liana West

  July 2, 2025

  Anxiety, Betrayal Trauma, Conflict, FAQs, Neuroscience, Pain, Relationship Trauma, Relationships, Superconscious Mind, The Ex, Trauma, Weight Issues

  Betrayal Trauma, breakup trauma brain, childhood trauma hippocampus, cptsd and brain, healing, health, heartbreak and mental health, hippocampus and memory, mental-health, ptsd, romantic breakup neuroscience, Trauma, trauma dose response