Poll: Physical or Emotional Pain?

[sheah1]

Emotional, by far. It's much easier to find the root cause of physical pain and fix it.

Physical pain may be easier to stop but that's not the question.
Would you rather be shut in a dungeon with insults blasted in your ears 24/7 or be thrown in some shithole where a dude drills your teeth out with a rusty drill? I think I'd go with the insults.

Less be insulted and more watch everyone you ever loved be brutally murdered in front of you while you're blamed for each and every death while the person you're madly in love with gets incessantly raped.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

Having not really experienced any extreme of either I have no real opinion on the subject.

Also drugs can fix both kinds of pain! Sometimes a little more permanently than intended!

 

[Dr Snakeman]

Emotional, by far. It's much easier to find the root cause of physical pain and fix it.

Physical pain may be easier to stop but that's not the question.
Would you rather be shut in a dungeon with insults blasted in your ears 24/7 or be thrown in some shithole where a dude drills your teeth out with a rusty drill? I think I'd go with the insults.

Exactly. It's not about how easily it can be fixed, but how bad it is when it's happening. I'd much rather be crying my eyes out than have someone burning them out with a blowtorch.

 

[spartan231490]

Emotional pain. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, so physical pain for me is like: OW, oh well. Emotional pay is a ***** to get rid of though. It just keeps hurting and hurting and hurting. It's like the energizer bunny.

 

[Balvale]

Anyone who hasn't lost someone they care about doesn't know what emotional pain is. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. It gets better, but it's always there.

That being said, I've never been tortured. I don't know what the extremes of physical pain are, but if I had the choice, I'd choose physical pain over losing someone.

 

[tomtom94]

All the people in this thread who have just had a break up will say the latter and all those who've just had a broken leg will say the former.

They both suck, let's leave it at that.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I don't really think they're comparable, especially as they often lead to eachother.

you cant be driven insane by emotional pain.

Yes you can.

 

[Grand_Arcana]

Emotional Pain. Physical pain is can be a nuisance, but to feel emotional pain so great that I over sleep on purpose so I don't have to deal with the emptiness of the real world is an entirely different level of agony.

 

[Genericjim101]

Emotional pain has never caused my brain to nearly implode from cranial pressure XD

 

[SoulSalmon]

Rarely does anyone experience anything that should be traumatic enough to be emotionally scarring, short of having every person you've ever loved being skinned and in immense pain right in front of your eyes, and then learning that it's your fault, you shouldn't HAVE any emotional pain.
And in the end you'd be experiencing the emotional pain BECAUSE of physical pain anyway, just not your own.

That bolded bit... just what do you mean by that??

Was just trying to make the situation seem worse, feel free to ignore that part if you wish.

I was trying to add insult to the scenario, having the above happen would be shattering yet made worse if you discovered that it was directly because of your own actions that everyone you loved was tortured.
A guilt trip on top of trauma essentially.

Perhaps I'm a complete wuss because I broke down in tears when I found out my child never drew breath.

I think this is where one of the problems is coming from...
Every single person in this thread has a different idea of what 'emotional pain' is...

Having emotions doesn't make anyone a 'wuss', it's more then understandable that you'd feel that way, my almost-sister was stillborn so I'm not totally foreign to it.
But the people in this thread saying "My girlfriend broke up with me and now i am teh sad, its wurse then physical pain because it emotionally scarred me for lief" ARE being wusses in my opinion... and those were the people my first post was mainly geared towards.


I'm probably done with this thread, I've already started repeating myself.

 

[Jimbo1212]

Physical is worse as that takes time to heal. Emotional is just about getting your head straight.

 

[Fanfic_warper]

To me it's kinda odd. I think emotional is worst but if given the choice, I'd rather take an emotional beating than a physical one.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I wouldn't say that neither of the two is more worse than the other, but I figure that I can brush off emotional pain pretty easily (if I don't care, or find something boring, I just ignore it until it goes away or shuts up) while physical pain might stick around a little longer. This is especially when I wake up with a bed sore and it won't go away for the rest of the day (freakin' annoying).

 

[Balvale]

Physical is worse as that takes time to heal. Emotional is just about getting your head straight.

I think you underestimate the process of getting your head straight in certain circumstances.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I find emotional pain to be worse because it's harder to mark it's progress while healing and the scars are usually more apparent.

When I'm physically hurt I get the comfort of seeing that it's a little better each day.
When I'm emotionally hurt it only feels like it's getting worse from day to day.

Physical scars are sometimes sort of cool, and you can always wear some kind of clothing to cover them.
Emotional scarring is easy to spot if you know what you're looking for, and it's never a good thing.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Fear - real, serious fear - is the worst thing imaginable.

Pretty much this.

I say sticks and stones to a certain degree, you see physical trauma and emotional pain is not entirely separate.
If I am daily in horrible pain, my quality of life goes down considerably.
If I get depressed enough I usually develop gatro-internal problems.

That said, I'd rather break a leg than lose my lover.

 

[2xDouble]

I forget who said it, but some comedian once said: "My mother never beat us kids. Not when damaging them psychologically is so much more... permanent"

 

[Kuroneko97]

Physical pain, depending on how serious, you can heal from eventually.

Emotional pain sometimes can take little time to recover, but unlike physical pain, sometimes it haunts you for life, never giving you a moment of rest.

Let me put it this way. If you're in a car accident and break your leg, but you learn you accidentally killed a whole family, which is going to hurt you longer? Similarly, if your wife/husband threw you on the street, after shooting you in the stomach to add insult to injury, which are you going to dwell on more?

So in my opinion, emotional pain hurts more, due to the length of time it takes to recover from it.

 

[DYin01]

Apples and oranges. They're so incredibly different. Having your heart broken sucks, having your leg broken too. Emotional pain can drive a person to kill him or herself, physical pain can do that without your help.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Emotional, by far. It's much easier to find the root cause of physical pain and fix it.

Not if you live in America and don't have money. My knee hurts and there's no way in hell I can get that fixed. My best bet is that it might go away on its own, which is not guaranteed to happen. Emotional pain has always gone away on its own for me. Things can distract you from emotional pain, but not from physical pain. For example, you can sometimes laugh at a funny movie when depressed, but if your ribs are broken, laughing sucks.