Poll: Emotional or Physical

[The Decapitated Mole]

Which pain is the worst pain?

I've had plenty of experience with both, and I'd have to say emotional. Cause when you break your leg or something, the pain goes away after a while. But emotional pain lingers for as long as you can think. You can lament about it for days or weeks. Even when you finally stop thinking about it, it's still hanging around in some dark recess of your mind, and it'll come back when you're feeling bad enough. This is why I choose emotional.

Now what do you think?

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[Yoh Asakura]

Emotional.

The pain lingers for days/weeks/months. Heartbreak is emotional and it's what causes a lot of suicides.

Physical pain disappears after a while, whereas emotional pain can last for a lifetime, with the smallest things opening up healed wounds....

[RedStarWarrior]

Emotional pain can lead to physical pain....enough said.

[Razola]

Physical. You learn something from emotional. Physical just ****ing hurts.

[Agent Elrond]

It depends on where your strength lies. Physically strong people can take physical pain better, but if they are mentally weak, then emotional pain will be harder to deal with. And vice versa. Someone with a strong will, and sound mind can take emotional pain better, but if their body is weak, then that is where it will hurt the most.

Also, I think the one feeds the other. A positive outlook can greatly reduce physical pain; and being physically fit and able to exersize your body greatly helps get your mind out of a rut. Likewise, an injury can drag you down, you'll become depressed, or lose weight, or both.

For now though, I'm going to say physical pain, 'cause that's what I'm having to deal with right now. (Fell off a twenty foot cliff yesterday and jerked my knee. I don't think I broke any tendons, but we'll see...)

[titandude21]

physical pain hurts a lot more. emotional pain is 100% preventable. gg emotions.

[Zak]

WTF? I'm the ONLY one who said that they are equal?

Alright, well, I guess it's a matter of opinion. I've experienced both, and I honestly can't pick which is worse for myself.
But say it wasn't for me, and I had a friend in the hospital who's life was at stake, then I guess I'd say physical. Unless they are suicidal, or had a relative die, of course. Those are emotional pains that are hard to get over... but if my friend is experiencing some emotional pain that would be get-over-within-a-week-able, then having known that they will be over it soon, then technically it's over.

However, the problem is, when someone is suicidal it's not always easy to tell if they're for real or faking it for attention. No matter how trustworthy someone is, they could still be doing it for attention and not realizing it themselves. So I wouldn't believe it until a professional psychiatrist or psychologist confirmed it.

But anyway, as I said in my attention whore poll a while back, if the person was not known for being an attention whore among myself or my friends, I would probably still say they are acting like that for attention, but they must be really pissed off if they are pulling that. Then I would half-sympathize, because while they are upset, they're sinking to a lower level.


~Zak

[EVme15]

Originally posted by Zak
~Zak

~Zak

You double Zakked in your edit. lol.

I'd say emotional. I've been through at least a bit of both. I've had to put up with a lot of things crashing down around me at once.

Ya know what I just realized? I joined TPM a few months after my mom got her tumor. Wow. Wonder if they're related at all. Hey... 18th? She was in rehab then. No idea why I remember this now. Maybe that has something to do with why I joined TPM and stuck with it. Anyways back on topic...

Physical pain goes away. Emotional pain doesn't. There's no real way to get rid of emotions. You can cover them, you can redirect them, but you can't smother them. Even the happiest of people have probably frowned over a hundred times.

[Craig]

Sure having your heart broken may suck, but its not the same as a charliehorse in your leg during the middle of the night

[Pichu]

Emotional.

Physical 'damage' can heal, but emotional doesn't just 'heal', and has an after effect.

[PNT510]

Physical pain hurts more. You'll eventually move on or learn to deal with emotinal pain.

[Leon-IH]

they both hurt alot, im probably a candidate for having felt them about evenly, emotional pain is bad because it traps you if you don't get some kind of help, physical pain can lead into/mask emotional pain.. to quote moe from the simpsons "thanks homer, now i can concentrate on my crippling emotional pain.. daddy daddy why won't you hug me, you hugged the mail man"

[GirlRepellant]

OK, maybe I've led a sheltered life emotionally, but I have had nothing emotionally hurt as much as getting kicked in the crotch by a second degree black belt hard enough to make me vomit. I'd break up 3 or 4 good relationships before letting that happen again, even ignoring the possibility of future sterility.

[SupremeChampion]

emotional pain is something that sticks around. the longer you think about what hurts you emotionally, the longer it hurts and the worse it gets. physical pain isn't as bad to me. i play football and it's always much easier to heal from hip pointers and bruises than emotional scars.

~The Italian Stallion

[TheDarkHeracross]

Emotional, physical pain goes away faster, emotional pain could stay for a long... long time. And to titandude21, emotional pain is definitly not "100% preventable"

[Yoh Asakura]

Originally posted by titandude21
emotional pain is 100% preventable.

Bull****. Sometime in your life you're gonna have your heart ****ed up, whether it's from losing a girl/guy ((you could be gay)) or losing somebody in your family.

[The Outsider]

Originally posted by YAMI YUGI™
whether it's from losing a girl/guy ((you could be gay))

... or you could be a girl.

[Gavin Luper]

Both hurt a lot, I've had a fair bit of experience with both; physical hurts a lot and can be dealt with to a degree, and yet emotional sort of digs inside you and you become overcome by the emotion.

However, maybe I've got a strong mind or strong will, because I can usually overcome emotional pain somehow or other. Your mind and thoughts can heal a lot, but of course there's time; time heals all, in my opinion.

So, I reckon physical pain is worse.

[Yoh Asakura]

Originally posted by The Outsider
... or you could be a girl.

And gay can't be used towards both genders? Oh sorry, Lesbian. Does that make you feel any better.

[Leon-IH]

on the subject of physical pain goes away, i can refute that.. my dad has been in pain ever since crushing 2 vertebrae in his low back in 1993, and this is a guy who doesnt seem to notice most physical pain.

[kurai]

They both have potential to be long lasting, and both can have positive results leading from them (learning), so I don't feel either is any worse or better than the other.

[Dean]

emotional pain really sucks... but i suppose physical pain has more potential to suck... such as getting shot in the eye or being restrained and someone slowly eating your testicles would be quite painful. I voted emotional pain simply because you experience it more often and is more likely to hurt you more, but physical pain has much more potential imo

[shazza]

I voted emotional pain, because the experience, the thoughts going through your head hurts alot more, long term.