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People who claim emotional pain is worse than the physical variety have obviously never experienced a lot of physical pain or a very intense pain. Try life saving surgery that requires a central line, almost dying, 16 years of intense, debilitating pain, such that you literally can't walk, etc. & get back to me
As I mentioned previously, I have experienced both (and I'm sure others have too).
It's not a competition, and deciding one pain is greater than another serves no purpose. If someone's pain, either emotional or physical is worse than mine, mine doesn't go away.
I think both have their own worse moments. I've never had any physical accidents so I can't testify that but emotionally? Yes. For now, I'll say emotional pain is very hard.
As I mentioned previously, I have experienced both (and I'm sure others have too).
It's not a competition, and deciding one pain is greater than another serves no purpose. If someone's pain, either emotional or physical is worse than mine, mine doesn't go away.
Thanks for caring. My husband was in his 60's. He was healthy and youthful all his life. Then out of the blue he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and died 13 months later. What a shock!
Thanks for caring. My husband was in his 60's. He was healthy and youthful all his life. Then out of the blue he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and died 13 months later. What a shock!
I'm going to respond via message, kinda getting away from the topic.
Just curious. Do a few people on this thread feel that emotional pain is "sissy stuff" or ?? I agree with a lot of the posters. I feel that physical pain always involves a degree of emotional pain and stress too!
I'm different. I have no qualms with my emotions. But then, I'm a woman.
I also feel I have less emotional pain when the root is physical. I can still crack a smile or laugh when in physical pain but when its emotional, its much harder. Nothing is funny.
Thanks for caring. My husband was in his 60's. He was healthy and youthful all his life. Then out of the blue he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and died 13 months later. What a shock!
I'm so sorry. I too, lost my husband. He had just turned 43 and died instantaneously of a heart attack. I think going through the death of a spouse changes your perspective on these types of issues.
I was listening to my friend go on and on about her break up with her fiance of one year comparing it to the death of my husband of 18 years. I checked myself. She couldn't compare, and my loss didn't diminish her pain.
I never understood how anyone could believe emotional pain is worse than physical. People say "emotional pain lasts forever but physical pain heals". If I get shot in the stomach and then a bullet in my head tell me when ill be healing, considering dead people don't heal!
I asked a friend who picked the emotional side and I said "You would rather go through one of those torture methods they used in various wars, instead of finding out the basic/simple fact your boyfriend stuck his d*** in another girl?". And she actually said yes and I was shocked.
With emotional pain you can CONTROL and CHOOSE to let it bother you. Like if a person called me a "low-life loser". I can choose to let it eat at me inside and depress me or I can brush it off and go about my day as if it didn't happen.
With physical pain, if I get punched in the nose, there is no "I can choose or control" the pain I will feel in my nose and it will hurt like hell and that is uncontrollable
Easier said then done.
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