Scientists are investigating the range of pain from physical to psychic to social.
The next step - a drug to alleviate any or all of it.
Live Science: Pain Pills Could Ease Hurt Feelings
The finding builds on research showing that psychological blows not only feel like they hurt us, they actually do. For instance, scientists have found a gene linked with both physical pain and a person's sensitivity to rejection. And some of the same brain regions are linked with both pain types.
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