26/02/2026
Recently, while reading The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, I came across this line:
“People die of heart attack when they might secretly be dying of heartbreak.”
We medicalise the event.
We ignore the emotion.
Chronic loneliness, suppressed grief, emotional neglect — the body carries what the mind cannot process.
Sometimes the diagnosis is cardiac.
The origin is relational.
What do you think — can emotional pain manifest physically?
👇 Let’s discuss.
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