Looking for opinions about people who have had broken heart syndrome, should they stay on beta blockers or not and why?

Yes: These medication prevent recurrences patient with broken heart syndrome tend to relapse when they stop taking their medications.

In general..yes: Takotsubo's or broken heart syndrome is a pseudo heart attack caused by adernergic overload on the heart. Beta blockers interrupt this and reverse detrimental effects on the heart. It also prevents recurrence. Generally, we keep people on beta blockers long term unless we can't for whatever reason.