This article I read today clears the way for the much needed explanation why sometimes we feel pain in our chest when someone hurts us without even touching us. As the article begins:
"Like a jab in the arm with a red-hot poker, social rejection hurts. Literally. A new study finds that our brains make little distinction between the sting of being rebuffed by peers -- or by a lover, boss or family member -- and the physical pain that arises from disease or injury."
