Do you think, emotional pain, can hurt as much as the physical?

Question

i personally don't have that problem to figure out, but watching a television show, people have mixed feelings, so i thought i would bring it too you....

Answer 1

I thought this was an excellent question. I suffer from depression and at times it may be more severe, and when it is it completely incapacitates me. Physical sickness, such as a cold does not completely render me nonfunctional like the depression does. I also noticed that emotional pain is harder to treat; it is easy to see a physical wound, but far more complicated to get to the root of something emotional or mental.

Answer 2

It hurts more, depending on the situation. If the situation is bad enough, you feel physical symptoms of emotional heartache. And sometimes it can last an entire lifetime. There have been times in my own life, when I could literally feel my heart getting shattered due to emotional pain. I get this awful feeling of pain in my chest when I am emotionally hurt. And there are certain heartaches in life you just never get over, the death of a child or spouse or parent for example. You may learn to accept it, but it stays with you for ever and it always leaves a stain no matter how much time has passed

Answer 3

Emotional

Answer 4

Do you think, emotional pain, can hurt as much as the physical?

IT can hurt More because if the person never learns from their mistake or cannot forgive and move on - the pain never ends and can and does turn to physical pain. Physical pain (if it not life threatening will heal) the memory of the injury does not usually linger.

Answer 5

Judging by my own experience emotional pain hurt more than the physical. To some degree modern medicine can control the physical pain & after all physical pain is only of short duration.

My step father passed away last year - the emotional pain is still present; my husband cheated on me, he is treating me badly - I'm hurting so much.

I see my sister & my mother every 15 years - its not easy.

Answer 6

emotional pain is worse than physical pain havent you watched this stuff on dr phil. He speaks of it frequently. I believe i have been there too many times i'd rather be beat than be emotionally scaredWarning Signs: Are you in an unsafe relationship?

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Answer 7

Sometimes I think Emotional pain is worse. With physical pain, there is a set amount of time before the wound heals. With emotional pain, it may never heal.

Answer 8

yes. words can hurt a person's feelings, just as much as a person being kicked, punched, shot or stabbed. i've experienced plenty of emotional heartache myself so far, particuarly when i was in my teens. being shouted at, screamed at, sweared at, these are all signs of emotional pain one can endure. yes it leaves no physical scars whatsoever, but the circumstances, aftermath and long term effects for a person who is so sensitive to such callous and hurtful remarks can be devastating. particularly if one finds it hard to contend with during a relationship of some sort. they could easily get offended and upset by not just what the other person said, but also in the manner that they said it too as well.

physical scars can heal in a short period of time, but also for someone, who for instance was sexually assaulted as a child, those memories of being abused and used, the emotional trauma, the fear they had to endure themselves, their childhood innocence being robbed and taken away from them for good, after being subjected to such vile behaviour can run very deep throughout and it could ultimately affect their adult lives as they get older, how they perceive relationships and for it to change their lives forever.

so yes, i agree that emotionally and mental pain can be just as detrimental to a person's well being, as physical pain.

Answer 9

WORSE!! Emotional pain stays around alot longer than the physical.

Answer 10

I think it hurts more! I have a chronic neve/muscle disorder and am in severe pain every day that forces me to see a specialist that deals in pain but the pain I had and still have due to my mothers death is worse than the physical pain I have every day.