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Broken heart syndrome is real - here's how physical and emotional stress can affect your heart

  Broken heart syndrome feels similar to a heart attack, and the most common signs of the condition are chest pain and shortness of breath. However, broken heart syndrome is caused by intense physical or emotional stress, such as distressing news like the death of a loved one. Broken heart syndrome is short-term and treatable, but it's important to seek medical help to prevent lasting heart damage. A broken heart may conjure up bittersweet stories and love songs - but experiencing a traumatic event may actually cause cardiac consequences. Broken heart syndrome, also known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, occurs when someone experiences sudden and acute physical or emotional stress, which can rapidly weaken the heart's left ventricle. Here's what you need to know about the causes, symptoms, and treatment for broken heart syndrome. What is broken heart syndrome? Broken heart syndrome, which was first described in Japan during the 1990s, is a condition where the left ventricle - t...

Dying of a broken heart is actually a thing

  Have you ever heard of older couples who die within a short span of each other? People often say the second person to go died of a broken heart. But did they really, truly die of a broken heart? Maybe. Maybe not. The truth of the matter is, broken heart syndrome is a real thing, and no one is immune to it. You may not be surprised to learn that broken heart syndrome is typically brought on by intense emotional or physical stress. And it can feel just like a heart attack. The difference? Well, in layman's terms, when someone experiences a heart attack, it is generally due to a complete or near-complete blockage of a heart artery. In broken heart syndrome, no arteries are blocked, but blood flow in the heart arteries might be reduced. Experts say one theory is that adrenaline causes the arteries in the heart to narrow enough that they cut off blood flow to the muscle. The syndrome can temporarily make part of your heart larger, affecting how your heart pumps blood, which causes the...

Darlene Love, Singer of Many Phil Spector Classics, Remembers: ‘He Wanted to Control My Talent’

  “You know, the whole thing was like a bad marriage,” Darlene Love says. “It’s a marriage that was abusive — not just physically, but mentally. That’s what Phil was trying to do with me. He wanted to control not Darlene, but the talent.” Darlene Love, who sang many of Phil Spector’s greatest songs but also saw her career effectively sabotaged by the infamously unstable producer, remembered her problematic relationship with him to Variety on Sunday. Spector died on Saturday, aged 81 and serving a 19-year-to-life prison sentence for the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson. Love heard about Spector’s passing from her son on Sunday morning. Having had a few hours to digest the news, she says: “I felt this is very sad. I didn’t think of hate. I didn’t think, ‘He deserved it or this should have happened.’ I just felt this was a sad way for him to leave this earth. “The more I thought about it, the sadder I got,” she concludes. “He changed the sound of rock ‘n’ roll — the reason I know this is...

Darlene Love on Phil Spector’s Death: ‘I Feel Very, Very Sad’

  Darlene Love never knew how she’d feel when Phil Spector died, but when the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed the producer’s death on Sunday, she mainly felt sorrow despite all the ways he mistreated her over the years. “My son called to tell me the news,” says the singer, who recorded classics like “He’s a Rebel,” “(Today I Met) the Boy I’m Gonna Marry” and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with Spector in the early Sixties. “I felt real bad. Then I thought about who he was and what he did because if there was no Phil Spector, there would be no Darlene Love.” A few hours after the news broke, Love phoned Rolling Stone to talk about her long musical history with Spector, their split in the Seventies, a nasty legal battle in the Nineties and the murder that sent the producer to prison for the final two decades of his life. I met Phil Spector in 1962. I was already a backup singer with a group, the Blossoms. We did a lot of recordings for Lester Si...

10 quotes of Bhagavad Gita to understand life in better way

  It is said that the Gita should be read because reading the Gita gives a mantra to deal with many sufferings of life. If you have to learn a new way of living life, you can text the Gita. There are many sermons in the Gita that can change lives. Today, we have brought 12 teachings that give us the message of success in life. * You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become  * Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is * Work for work’s sake, not for yourself. Act but do not be attached to your actions. Be in the world, but not of it * You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits. * One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men. * Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable. * Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires. * In the dark night of all beings awak...

50 classic TV quotes that are now part of everyday vocabulary

  “It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” It’s a classic TV quote! Television has provided dozens of memorable lines that have become part of everyday language. They’re a kind of shorthand, understood by the millions of people who grew up watching everything from Saturday morning cartoons to nightly news shows. Stacker collected 50 classic television quotes that have become part of everyday vocabulary, consulting surveys, reviews, reference materials, dictionaries, fan websites, media reports, and celebrity interviews. Some are utterly silly syllables like Homer Simpson’s “d’oh” and Seinfeld’s “yada, yada, yada,” while others really do have a thoughtful meaning like “Let’s be careful out there” from “Hill Street Blues,” and the inspirational “clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” from “Friday Night Lights.” Game shows and competitions contributed a fair share, from “Is that your final answer?” of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” to the “Come on down!” invitation to contestants on “The Price is...

Start your day with these motivational and inspiring quotes and welcome the first ray of sunshine

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  Life can become monotonous, boring and dull at times. Especially with the online classes, working from home, pandemic and whatnot, it can be quite hard for you to get up in the morning and face the daily challenges no matter how hard you try or how positive you try to be. At times like these, reading happy and inspirational quotes first thing in the morning can change your whole outlook towards life and can give you the much-needed inspiration and motivation. So here are some of the very best Good Morning quotes to charge you up and to start the day on a positive note. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” - Henry David Thoreau "Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment." - Thich Nhat Hanh “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga “Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn fr...

Quiz: Can you guess the writers behind these 50 famous quotes?

  The modern world of enhanced brevity and rapidly consumed content is full of quotes by inspirational thinkers, leaders, artists, and, perhaps most notably, writers. Memorable quotes are ubiquitous on social media feeds, often referenced by politicians, and are plastered across any variety of merchandise, painted signs, and greeting cards. In the following quiz, Stacker put together a list of 50 famous quotes and the writers who coined them using data gathered from Goodreads, newspapers, magazines, book and poetry foundations, and author websites. Many of these quotes have become part of a common language. Others may be trickier to place. Some of the most popular quotes, which get repeatedly splashed around social media, are incorrectly assigned to the wrong person; others are completely inaccurate altogether. It’s impossible to overstate the power of writers to inspire, comfort, or cure us from our experiences of loss, confusion, or flat-out boredom. They provide us with expansiv...

5 Quotes That Will Change Your Life

  The key to our problems were always at the hands of philosophers. Recline your seat, grab your popcorn, and put your frames on; we are about to read a serious life-changing blog. Dear audience, before we begin you will see some tea splashing around; don’t duck, remember that it’s not sugar-coated. Since the 7th century BCE, philosophers have enriched our mindset; providing an in-depth understanding of life. Allowing the common man to inherit an alternative perspective towards life, leading to change. Talking about change, that is what we are going to be doing this year. Let’s go over the 5 best quotes to achieve the self-development that we desire. *** Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent — Ludwig Wittgenstein To be honest, we speak more than we know even when we know it. Take this into consideration when you double-guess why you are always in a feud. Wittgenstein was clear with this statement: when you do not know about a topic, stay shut. Go into 2021 with this...

Hard work, goals beyond the ordinary make Elon Musk tick

  The man who wants to put people on Mars has become the richest man on Earth. It makes little difference to him, though. A traumatic childhood, combined with his genius and ambition, seems to have made Elon Musk a man who is above excessively celebrating materialistic achievements. Musk’s reaction to becoming the world’s wealthiest man, with a net worth of $195 billion, was typical of him. “How strange,” he tweeted. This was followed by “Well, back to work.” The Tesla and SpaceX founder is a notorious workaholic. In 2018, there was serious concern over his health and state of mind as he worked 120-hour weeks, smoked a joint on a talk show, albeit legally, and broke down in a soul-baring interview with The New York Times. Psychiatrists may have noted an element of self-destruction in the conscious neglect of his health. “There were times when I didn’t leave the factory for three or four days — days when I didn’t go outside,” the father of five said. “This has really come at the exp...

Stuck in a Motivational Rut? 3 Tips to Break Out of It

  You don’t feel ambitious enough to climb out of bed every morning. You experience low-grade dread aka ‘Sunday night blues’ regularly. You just can’t pump yourself up to finish a project that’s been dragging on. Your productivity is plummeting and you cannot seem to find creative solutions to challenges that arise. These are telltale signs that you’re stuck in a rut. Falling into a rut is easy if you’re too immersed doing the same thing day in and day out — especially when “work” is confined within the same four walls as “home” during the coronavirus pandemic. Stagnation takes a toll on you when you’re trapped in a monotonous routine. The good news is, it happens to us all at some point in time, but it’s not-the-end-of-the-world scenario. Try these quick and easy tips to get your motivation and productivity back on track. 1. Push yourself out of your comfort zone The number one thing that you need to do is get out of your comfort zone. If you keep on doing things the same way you’...