Emotional pain > Physical pain

"sticks and stones may break my bones but I'll ♥♥♥♥ you with a rake" as the old saying goes.

Those who can inflict emotional pain on me generally don't, and I'm doing quite well at keeping my fairly frail frame out of danger so far. Only a matter of time before I break a bone or lose a limb or something though.

I'm sure both are pretty bad though. I've had a bit of pain in both ways. (not like that, sickos) I'd say I probably have more emotional setbacks than physical ones but I'm not a fan of either. 8D
 
I haven't been injured enough such that it's been unbearable or that I've lost a limb or anything like that. I'd imagine that would be awful.

Since I don't know that pain well, I'm going to say emotional pain because that I do know.

I wouldn't wish either type on anyone and both can linger on although in different ways
 
Both can affect your life greatly, but physical pain is way more... painful. Literally. I'd rather experience heartbreak than have my limbs cut off.

I've dealt with emotional pain more than the physical version, but my opinion is still the same.
 
Sometimes emotional pain can last a lot longer than physical pain can. I feel like I remember emotional pain longer than I would ever remember a physical pain.
 
I really have not much experience with physical pain, and I have a very low threshold for it. While I throw myself into situations like relationships where I have a high chance of emotional pain, I avoid situations that have a high chance of physical pain. So I guess I think physical pain is worse.
 
This is a hard question to answer. I would want to say emotional, but I also feel like emotional pain can cause you to be a much, much stronger person than you were before you had to deal with it and I think that sort of balances out the pain because you grow as a person, even if that emotional pain comes from a very bad place.
 
Kanzler said:
Physical pain is (hopefully) temporary, but emotional pain is (possibly) for ever.
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This.

Anyway, I prefer physical pain over emotional pain. Like Kanzler said, physical pain is temporary and usually gets better over time. Emotional pain is more likely to stay with you forever and haunts you no matter what you do. I've had my share of it, and there are times when I still do. I hate it so much. D: I try not to think about it though, even though I am right now... ._.
 
Problems keep popping up this year in my life one by one, and i gotta say the emotional stress and pain i feel make me overlook every injury or graze or bruise i get. I feel like my heart and my brain are about to explode and kill me.
But i try to stay strong because...i have to. I can't let grief or sadness take over my life and ruin me.
 
I've got a ridiculously high threshold for physical pain and even when it passes that threshold, I'm used to it. It doesn't bother me much. (I mean, it bothers me, but it doesn't seem like a big deal to me.)

I haven't experienced a lot of emotional pain, though. Most of what I've experienced has been really easy to get past, but it's a lot harder to deal with because I don't have coping mechanisms for it like I do physical pain. Worst case with physical pain, you just take pills or something to get rid of it. Emotional pain is much more difficult to overcome.

I'd rather be in physical pain than emotional pain any day.
 
Physical pain doesn't bother me that much. I have been in so much physical pain from my arthritic hip that I was nauseous and couldn't move, but that's passed now. My hip is currently fine, and I can get through the day when it is bothering me with some pain medication and a heating pad. Any physical pain that's less than that I can handle with ease.

The emotional pain that I've gone through still affects me. Years have gone by since the events that lead to the emotion pain happened, but I'm still recovering from that pain. It still affects me and there isn't an easy fix for my emotional pain.
 
Difficult to answer. Emotional pain is crippling, but in a way that doesn't affect my every day activities. I mean, even if I'm in a state of depression and deep emotional distress, I can, begrudgingly, push those feelings aside for the time being and go about my day, going to practice, doing chores, working, etc. However, physical pain can limit your abilities to do such things and have an immediate impact on your life. Best way to put it, I think is that emotional pain is normally long-term, and physical is normally short-term. Do with that what you will :<
 
Kanzler said:
Physical pain is (hopefully) temporary, but emotional pain is (possibly) for ever.
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Conditions that cause physical pain can be lifelong ones. Emotional pain is very unlikely to be so chronic; we hate to admit it but most of us are quite fickle.
 
Cassino said:
Conditions that cause physical pain can be lifelong ones. Emotional pain is very unlikely to be so chronic; we hate to admit it but most of us are quite fickle.
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Or some of us tend to have stronger emotional attachment, as fickle as we are.
 
I can't really say which I've experienced more of, but I will say, for me at least: emotional pain is far worse than physical pain.

Now, I've been lucky enough so far to avoid the worst physical pains, and chronic pains, so maybe I'm a bit biased in that regard. But what I've found is that I can definitely cope with physical pain better. For that I tend to have a set idea of what's causing it...oh, it's this, maybe I can distract myself a bit to take my mind off the pain. Sometimes that works.

But emotional pain is everywhere. It's in my head, it's in my chest, it's just so pervasive. Probably doesn't help that I tend to be obsessive over certain things, so once I'm hurt in that manner there's no distracting me in the same way I can be distracted from physical pain - not for long, at least. It usually takes me way longer to recover from that than I would from most physical injuries. I just don't know how to deal with it well.
 
I've definitely felt more emotional pain, though it doesn't fail that I hurt myself in some way on a daily basis by accident. The biggest difference for me is that physical pain is far easier to get rid of - take a pill, lie down, drink some water, and it's over. Emotional pain has much more gravity and could take years to get rid of depending on what exactly caused it. For me, personal death and grieving don't cause me nearly as much emotional pain as it does to some others.
 
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