If you had to choose..what is worse - physical or mental abuse?

Answer 1

I would say mental abuse is worse. The anxiety and stress from it can actually cause physical harm to your body!!

Answer 2

I experienced both & don't think neither one is acceptable or good for you or better or worse then the other.
Mental abuse, fuccs with you to the point where your thoughts are totally twisted & you find it hard to distinguish reality from the bullsh*t you are beeing fed by your mental abuser. It makes you feel incompetent of composing your own thoughts because you will question them as a result of mental abuse and dismiss and invalidate them....

Now physical abuse is different, when a person that you love and trsut puts their hands on you, you feel lost!
Your selfesteem will deteriate over time. When you lie to outsiders about what happened to you & you know that they know, or when you look in the mirror and you see your face all swollen & beat up and your eyes black and you ask yourself "Why???? is this happening to me? Am I not worth more then this?" when I was in the hospital for the busted nose & black eyes they had someone from the police there & he took pictures & a Dr. was present they satripped me & the Dr. was like oh no those are old bruises probably like 2 weeks & that burn is older as well you don't have to take pictures of those, & then he told a becomming Dr. that those were typical signs of reoccuring domestic abuse, asif I was not present, he added she is not an emergency & they all left....I cried that day a whole lot....
so if you are experiencing any abuse, I mean ANY do not deal with it, because if noone ever told you, I will tell you, you are better then that, & if this is not even about you but about someone you know, tellthem like I told you & be there for that person....God bless you!

Answer 3

I was abused in both ways when I was younger by my step mother. My father was not around.

The physical abuse is just memories now that I am 28, but the mental abuse is still with me.
I suffer from low self esteem, I do not respect or even love myself, I have very low confidence and anxiety and depression.
I know where these problems R from but can not just shake it off. Ripping my pubic hair out when I was 14, always hitting me in the face/head and calling me stupid at the same time and telling me I am nothing but the son of a hooker R some of the most memorable.
I am trying to live my life the best I can but this still haunts me.

Mental abuse is much worse, it hurts you for life.

Answer 4

Well they're just as bad if not the same. But I guess maybe Physical Abuse. I mean, if you're physically abused then that's already scarring you both physically and mentally. Not to mention that if it goes too far it could cost someone's life. At the same time, if you get out of the situation in time then you can always put it behind you. However, with mental abuse...that can lead you to be scarred for life. It's easier to forget one person who abused you physically but I do believe it's harder to get rid of the mental damage. I don't think that answered your question for one or the other, I just think they're both bad.

Answer 5

I would say Both. Mental abuse can be just as bad if not worse than physical abuse. However they both run neck and neck. A person uses mental abuse to make someone feel as if they are not worthy and makes them have low self-esteem. That way when they physically abuse someone the person is less likely to leave. I hope you are not in this situation.

Answer 6

Mental is worse, physical bruises go away faster than emotional bruising. Unless of course the physical abuse is so severe that it scars for life.

Answer 7

Both horrible.. Mental is worse because they like to say your unworthy..not good enough..and if u have had it rough when u were young..and any past abuse..u will believe them and become even more depressed and they keep u down while building theirselves up..it becomes a cycle...definitely harder to get over the mental abuse...the hoildays become not a time of joy but how to keep him from being tense or pissed off and when will he put me down...or pounce on me ..during the holidays always pray for the abused it is not happy times for them.

Answer 8

wow, good question! i think physical abuse is worse because in all situations, mental abuse is a byproduct of physical abuse. you physically abuse a child and he will automatically have emotional scars. mental abuse by no means is a walk in the park but my mother was mentally abusing and i think it made me a stronger person but it's all on the individual.

Answer 9

One should not have to "choose" any abuse. Mental is so much worse, I'm speaking from experience.

Answer 10

Definetly emotional abuse is worse.A fisical wound can heal but the traumas and and concequences of emotional or psycological abuse take way much longer to heal and you need a professional to help you too.