The emotional stress of a broken heart can lead to cardiomyopathy and a broken heart. The incidence of this heart condition is rising in this group of people. Smidt Heart Institute has published a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association in which they found cases of broken heart syndrome are increasing in middle-aged and older women, even before the pandemic. Broken heart syndrome is more than a myth or an old wives’ tale. The medical term for the condition is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) or Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). The condition is named after a pot Japanese fishermen use to trap octopi. The diagnosis was first introduced in 1991 by a Japanese scientist. After the 1991 paper was published, doctors found several more cases in the following 10 years, but the condition remained largely unrecognized outside of Eastern culture. In 2004 after the earthquake in Japan, 16 people were diagnosed with TTS. …