Lemondrop

Sometimes a bad break-up can leave us hurting so bad that even endless hours of posting song lyrics on Facebook and no-strings-attached sex fail to help. Our weight fluctuates, we watch a lot of movies, our hearts literally stop beating ...

Wait, what was that again? Apparently it's true: suffering from heartbreak can be kind of literal. According to a joint study by scientists at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University who monitored the heart rates of a group of volunteers, romantic rejection slowed heart rates to a standstill, but only for a moment.

Volunteers' heart rates initially dropped in anticipation of others' opinions of them, and fell even further if they were rejected socially. It also took those who were jilted longer to get their heart rates up to normal.

You may want to rethink starting that next love letter off with "Be still my beating heart."