When we are affected by a feeling (bad or good) our nervous system sends this information to the heart and actives the parasympathetic or sympathetic system. These systems control your heart rate, that's why you get your heart to beat faster, for example, when you are in danger or nervous.
In our hearts there are some fine lines called chordae tendineae , that help the valves in your heart not to retract towards the auricules or the arteries when blood fills an atrium or a ventricle .
When we receive a very bad new we get this pain because it may happen the rupture or damage of the chordae tendineae, and some people actually get heart problems because of this.
Anyways, this doesn't mean that you have or will have a heart problem because once in a while you have felt this pain. This only occurs to a few people , so don't worry.
It's actually the liberation of some hormones like adrenaline , that affect the heart, which is a muscle , and may cause some alterations in the heart rate or in its contractibility like I said before.
Ps: excuse me if I made any grammar mistake and please notice that I'm a simple med student from second year. I've got a lot ahead to learn and I may not be 100% right in this conclusion, but for me it's the most coherent reason. If someone knows completely the answer I'll be glad to hear it from them. Thanks.
I bow to your greater medical knowledge, but I can speak to the psychological aspect a little bit ( I'm a psychologist). Schachter did a study back in the '60s where he gave folks ephinephrine (some knew the effects, some didnt-unethical now). Those who didn't attributed the effects they felt (racing heart etc) to the context around them, e.g. either excited or happy. This shows we have the physical feeling and then attribute it to an emotion based on context. Emotions are centered largely in the limbic system and give us information about our environment, so one can't feel "wrong." They are part of our survival instinct. Our minds and body are inseparable. Furthermore, we can experience emotions physically without actually recognizing the pain as emotionally based. Extreme cases can lead to paralysis, seizures, etc. that have no physical cause, i.e. conversion disorder. Feelings are, real, valid, and can hurt. You can't just "snap out of it " anymore than walking off broken leg.
It's also a feeling I have only recently begin feeling again. And let me tell ya. I missed it.
Why when my emotionally pains reach pass a certain level, the physical pains start
That's uncomfortable
In our hearts there are some fine lines called chordae tendineae , that help the valves in your heart not to retract towards the auricules or the arteries when blood fills an atrium or a ventricle .
When we receive a very bad new we get this pain because it may happen the rupture or damage of the chordae tendineae, and some people actually get heart problems because of this.
Anyways, this doesn't mean that you have or will have a heart problem because once in a while you have felt this pain. This only occurs to a few people , so don't worry.