Grief Addiction

This is an interesting study that explains a lot of things. Apparently, a minority of people, when experiencing grief, have the reward centers of their brain stimulated. This causes, over time, an actual addiction to feeling grief. The grief, being a dehabilitating emotion, causes depression which can cause all sorts of life problems.

The other week, my wife and I were watching a History of Britain and Queen Victoria seems like a great candidate for this. After her husband, Prince Albert, died, she wore black and grieved for the rest of her life: about 40 years.

The human brain has some odd quirks.