Happiness Can Break Your Heart Too

B1 – Intermediate

It isn’t only sad events and hurtful situations that can break our hearts. It turns out that happy circumstances can also be harmful to the health.

Read the article below to know more.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1603/160305-happy-heart-syndrome.html

 Discussion Questions:

1. What did you think about the article?
2. How might happiness be unhealthy?
3. How would you define happiness?
4. Share some of the happy memories you’ve had in the past week or month.

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7 replies on “Happiness Can Break Your Heart Too”

1. What did you think about the article?
What the article says is surprising for me, I had never hear about this and it is quite difficult to understand for me. I think that the article is not very specific in describing the symptoms of the TTS. Therefore I can’t see in what way the human respond to happy and sad events can produce similar effects.
2. How might happiness be unhealthy?
I’m not sure. For what the text say, I guess that our heart response is the same when we are happy and when we are sad. Maybe both situations accelerate it leading to and unhealthy state.
3. How would you define happiness?
Happiness is the feeling that you have when you are fulfilled about your life and you enjoy every single part of it.
4. Share some of the happy memories you’ve had in the past week or month.
I feel happy because I have found a good new job and I feel that the progress in my career has been kindly recognised.

You are doing great by staying consistent in practicing your writing.

See how this sentence can be revised:

I had never hear about this and it is quite difficult to understand for me.

I have never heard of this so it is quite difficult for me to understand.

Keep doing this exercise to improve your writing more and more.

1. What did you think about the article?
It is very good to see how external factors can affect our healthy
over all when the result is not expected
2. How might happiness be unhealthy?
When you have a great feeling you can have a heart attack even sometimes you can have a guilty feeling fi see that people around you is not happy
3. How would you define happiness?
Happiness depends on the person , , someone alone in a mountain can be happier that somebody in a party, happiness are moments , the more fun moments you have the more happy you are
4. Share some of the happy memories you’ve had in the past week or month.
I remember my wedding day and the the birth of my sons as the best moments

Good job with your writing practice so far. Always strive to write at least 3 sentences per response. This way, you will be able to practice expressing and elaborating more.

See a better way to structure this sentence:

When you have a great feeling you can have a heart attack even sometimes you can have a guilty feeling fi see that people around you is not happy

Happiness can be unhealthy because sometimes, when you feel too great, you can have a heart attack. Sometimes, you can even feel guilty seeing that people around you are not happy.

Cheers to more improvements in your skills!

1. What did you think about the article?
I think is true, not just sad things can break your heart. Many people suffer from this syndrome.
2. How might happiness be unhealthy?
Is possible it happens after a happy moment, unlock something unhealthy.
3. How would you define happiness?
Is difficult to define happiness because it depends on many factors.
But the most important thing is inside yourself and it up to you.
4. Share some of the happy memories you’ve had in the past week or month.
My last very happy memory was my little kid’s first steps. It’s one year and now there is no stopping him.

1. What did you think about the article?
I think is interesting and sad because I belebed the happyness was the best medical.
2. How might happiness be unhealthy?
The article say that the some of Takotsubo Syndrome occure after very happy things happen like a birthday party, a wedding, etc.
3. How would you define happiness?
I always had thinked taht happynes was a emtotional state and not puntual emotion. But probably happyness are both of them. For me happyness is when you relax the face and a smile appeir whitout think.
4. Share some of the happy memories you’ve had in the past week or month.
I have maked a new friend and start to talk whith her was beatiful thing. The last weekend I went whith my daugther to play to slides and down whith her was marvelous.

Keep on doing this writing exercise to continue with your progress. You’re doing good so far.

Do not forget your subject “it” in this sentence and also check your spelling:

I think is interesting and sad because I belebed the happyness was the best medical.
I think it is interesting and sad because I believe happiness is the best medicine.

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