When people feel emotional pain, the same areas of the brain get activated as when people feel physical pain: the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex. ...Over the course of evolution, our bodies decided to take the economy route and use a single neural system to detect and feel pain, regardless of whether it is emotional or physical... Pain, of course, is always both a physical and an emotional experience. If I stub my toe, in addition to the physical pain, I am