Poll: Physical or Emotional Pain?
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Subjective question, to say the least.
As there is no way to mesure physical pain and emotional pain with the same variable it is impossible to decide which is the worst. What does treading on lego barefoot compare to on an emotional level? What does having a loved one pass away compare to as physical pain? There is no way to tell.
Also, some people can take physical pain better than others, whilst some people crumble at the first hint of emotional stress.
As there is no way to mesure physical pain and emotional pain with the same variable it is impossible to decide which is the worst. What does treading on lego barefoot compare to on an emotional level? What does having a loved one pass away compare to as physical pain? There is no way to tell.
Also, some people can take physical pain better than others, whilst some people crumble at the first hint of emotional stress.
Emotion pain since afterall some people commit physical pain to numb out the emotional pain. The same can be said that emotional pain can take longer to heal than physical pain (well depends on what injury you had recieved).
One would question emotional pain by saying it is only in the mind, but that's easily reflected back at physical pain, which is also only in the mind technically. If there were no brains, there would be no pain or emotion.SoulSalmon said:
When you understand that emotional pain literally hurts the same way physical pain does (It lights up the same parts of the brain and leads to the same physical responses like running, lashing out physically, crying, screaming, and so on), it's easy to get why people can't stand it. The problem with emotional pain is that it often lasts for long periods of time, there are no medicines for it, and sometimes never goes away. Often the best cure for it is externalising it and letting other people persuade you out of it (talk about it), but the problem with that is that the other person is more often than not clueless about it.
A common cause of emotional pain is an existential sense of pointlessness. The source of that pain will never go away, because there is no objective point to life. The only way to escape that pain is to think your way out of it (thinking being notoriously hard to do when you're racked with emotions), or just end it by killing yourself. Unfortunately not everyone has the mental condition to take the former option. It's not a case of intelligence alone. People aren't 'bad' or 'stupid' or 'inferior' because they commit suicide. It's mostly circumstance.
For example: living in modern society makes many depressed. In a social environment where your worth is determined by what you own, yet you are unable to better your material standing or leave, you are left with a continuous sense of inferiority. This wears you down until your youthful expectations of life are snuffed out completely and you simply don't see the point of living any more if you can't achieve your dreams. You lose the will do live and either drift into a kind of dull limbo until you die naturally, or something changes, or you kill yourself because, really, what's the point in enduring the pain in the hope that something will change when nothing ever really changes?
Understanding people like that requires empathy, that's all. You'll get it eventually I'm sure. Most people do.
Well, I've experienced a minor form of depression, and that honestly crippled me worse than anything for a few weeks, so I'd say in a few cases emotional.
Physical pain is fine to deal with if you take it on with a positive outlook.
But then again... being burned alive would probably suck. So yeah... I change my answer.
Physical pain is fine to deal with if you take it on with a positive outlook.
But then again... being burned alive would probably suck. So yeah... I change my answer.
disagreeing here, had my legbones shatterd by a scooter crash > you dont feel afacking thing til they try to put the bloody things back or you try to stand on em XD.Hammeroj said:
operation: painless ( since you go nighty night ) the only painfull things:
removal of a drain, and removeal of stiches, the one hurts like FUCK for 10 seconds. stiches for 3 minutes if you have a quick docter.
emotional pain can be crushing for months.
so idunno man. dont think its all one way as you paint it
I'm going to go with emotional pain. I've felt my fair share of both and if I had to choose between going through what I went through emotionally some time ago or the time I ripped open my knee and arm in a quad biking accident I'd go with the physical because even thinking about what happened makes me sad and still hurts me today much more than some scars.
Yes but emotional pain is EXCLUSIVELY in the mind, physical harm is backed up by actual injury and nerve endings releasing chemicals that specialize in making you suffer.Danny Ocean said:
Emotional pain... well it's pretty much just 'negative' emotions like sadness from what I can tell, and I can't imagine why people let themselves get so worked up about it.
And you lost me...Danny Ocean said:
Feeling actual pain because life is pointless?
Since when does anything ever have a neatly defined 'point' to it anyway?
Just in case I made it sound like PEOPLE who commit suicide are stupid, let me clarify that I do not.Danny Ocean said:
The ACTION is what I find stupid
Since we already clarified that I'm a prick:Danny Ocean said:
First world problems much?
I can't tell what you mean here because no publication can decide on what Sympathy and Empathy are, I'm going to assume by "Empathy" you're referring to the act of being able to feel what the other person is going through to some extent.Danny Ocean said:
And I do lack that...
I'll have to see if I can find out how this works at another time, maybe something will change.
I think my main issue with not getting it is the examples, all things that millions of people go through every day. The end comparison always looks like this:
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.CalluesCow said:
And in the end you'd be experiencing the emotional pain BECAUSE of physical pain anyway, just not your own.
Well seeing as emotional pain over a long period of time has now made it very difficult to know how to correctly portray emotions or how to deal with certain situations, thus screwing over my ability to talk about certain topics with people who I am close to, I would go with emotional pain. I was made to feel guilty for everything me or my sister did when we were kids, constantly told I was a disapointment and a disgrace to my family and generally beaten down. Now I got told not to be so soft and to stop apologising, as I now expect to be blamed for everything, even if I wasnt involved.
Compared to that, having my chin split open, the back of my arms cut with razors/blunt penknives and hitting my head on a metal surface after an 8 foot drop is nothing.
Compared to that, having my chin split open, the back of my arms cut with razors/blunt penknives and hitting my head on a metal surface after an 8 foot drop is nothing.
Emotional stress can trigger physical pain and vice versa. I've been healthy most of my life, only broken 2 different bones, can count the number of times I've gotten food poisoning or a cold on just one hand, and I can comfortably relive these memories. The mental stuff like doing bad on a final, being demoted or getting cheated on/dumped leaves me feeling more hurt than I want to admit.
Depends.
Emotional pain is more difficult to get over (When physical pain is over, it's over. Unless it's at a level to cause psychological trauma)
Physical pain is far more painful and "physical" (duh).
EDIT:
I'd say physical pain is worse, as there is always something you can do to get over emotional pain and feel happy again.
There isn't much you can do to "get over" physical pain, except get yourself out of whatever situation is causing that pain.
Emotional pain is more difficult to get over (When physical pain is over, it's over. Unless it's at a level to cause psychological trauma)
Physical pain is far more painful and "physical" (duh).
EDIT:
I'd say physical pain is worse, as there is always something you can do to get over emotional pain and feel happy again.
There isn't much you can do to "get over" physical pain, except get yourself out of whatever situation is causing that pain.
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)