Poll: Physical or Emotional Pain?
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I've learned to deal with physical pain. It sucks, but a couple of pain killers will fix me right up. I'm a light weight with those little pills of joy.
Emotional pain never seems to leave. You can get over most things that hurt you, but severe emotional trauma never seems to leave. It's always there stalking you. Waiting for you to break down just a little bit so it can rush over and smother you. Mental illness needs to drink bleach as well.
Emotional pain never seems to leave. You can get over most things that hurt you, but severe emotional trauma never seems to leave. It's always there stalking you. Waiting for you to break down just a little bit so it can rush over and smother you. Mental illness needs to drink bleach as well.
Physical pain, by far. For those who say emotional pain is worse, here's something you should try: Take a chainsaw and cut off your arm. Now tell me, is that less painful than emotional pain? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Also, I don't really have emotions, so emotional pain isn't really something I feel or worry about feeling.
Also, I don't really have emotions, so emotional pain isn't really something I feel or worry about feeling.
I would have to say emotional pain. physical pain we're a bit more familiar to, we more or less know how to treat for it. psychological pain... well we're not very sure how to treat that. at least with physical pain I as a person would remain myself, i would react as a rational animal who has been injured. emotional pain is different, things like brainwashing and psychological torture literally destroy who the person is inside. I find that 10x as scary than any form of disease or injury.
lol, you can tell there are a lot of angsty teenagers on these forums... Emotional pain worse than physical pain? Get real.
I say... physical pain. Emotional pain is easier to deal with, in my case that is. Easier than taking a baseball bat directly to the head leading to a fractured skull at the very least. I really thought I was dead back then.
But everyone is different, aye?
But everyone is different, aye?
Flaw of that argument is that the physical pain you have experienced hasn't been very severe then.Amberella said:
People more often experience extreme emotional pain than extreme physical pain (many never experience the latter). That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and that it isn't worse.
I can guarentee you, without even having experienced it myself, that there exists physical pains out there that is far worse than any emotional pain. In fact, physical pain that is severe enough can kill people (without inflicting any major physical trauma) by causing heart attacks or similar.
I'm really quite surprised by the poll results. I thought more people would vote for emotional, since the internet is so full of pretentiousness. Good work fellow escapists, you've surprised me in a good way.
But dear god, all the bias in this thread. Biased opinions, biased opinions everywhere.
But dear god, all the bias in this thread. Biased opinions, biased opinions everywhere.
You also do not know the emotional pain that I have gone through, so that argument is flawed as well. One thing I can say is perhaps I have not experienced severe physical pain, but again you or I don't know if I ever will have to experience that severe physical pain, do we? No. With that said, I am still going to go with emotional pain is worse. Considering I am still deeply scarred from the emotional trauma/pain I went through.Athinira said:
A few facts about emotional pain.
- Circumstantial evidence is that chronic emotional stress can be associated with heart disease and early death.
- Also it known that intense emotional stress can also lead to a heart attack.
- In fact, emotional pain involves the same brain regions as physical pain.
I'm going with physical pain. Almost all emotional trauma can be worked through with enough time, effort and care; there are some physical wounds that will never fully heal, that will always hurt, and that will prevent someone from ever living a full life.
The human body is more fragile than some people believe; the human mind, less so.
The human body is more fragile than some people believe; the human mind, less so.
This is impossible to answer. We need some sort of scale, some sort of measuring unit to use. It would need to be a scale that could show values of both physical and emotional pain. We could call them "escudos" because why not. Five escudos of emotional pain would equal five escudos of physical pain. That way, when somebody said "I've got ten escudos of pain!" people would know how bad it was even if they didn't know what sort of pain it was.
The problem is that there's no default level of physical and emotional pain, so you can only compare them when they're equally intense. But if they're equally intense it means that you can't say that one is worse, because if it's worse it means they're not equally intense.
The problem is that there's no default level of physical and emotional pain, so you can only compare them when they're equally intense. But if they're equally intense it means that you can't say that one is worse, because if it's worse it means they're not equally intense.
im just going to let this one slide due to the fact that you seem to lack knowledge in psychologyDanielDeFig said:Really? How does one "heal" a crushed arm?Bran1470 said:physical pain heals emotional doesn't. i guess you can figure out which ones worse
Compare that to being betrayed, which is easily solved by not associating with those ppl, and getting new companions.
(I'm not picking on you, I was just on a roll from my initial post)
Emotional pain definitely.
I've broken my left arm in two places before and despite being incredibly fucking painful at least the pain could be easily countered with industrial strength pain killers at the hospital.
I've broken my left arm in two places before and despite being incredibly fucking painful at least the pain could be easily countered with industrial strength pain killers at the hospital.
Emotional stress and emotional pain isn't the same, and this thread asks about emotional pain. It's true that short term emotional stress, usually caused from a situation where the brain releases a high amount of activating chemicals and overloads the nervous system can be fatal (usually following a panic attack or similar). Emotional pain, not so much.Amberella said:
Emotional stress (possibly caused from emotional pain of some sort), when it isn't emmidiatly fatal, is of course also a long term condition, but it can also be caused by physical pain, except that physical pain can cause it both long term or very very very short term.
Your emotional pain might feel severe for you, but it obviously isn't so bad that you haven't been able to move on with your life in one way or another, and you aren't afraid to speak of it here. Also, like i said in my first post in this thread: Emotional pain, for all intents and purposes, can be defeated with strong character and willpower. Physical pain in most cases can't.
