Pain is obviously very uncomfortable, but would you rather live with everlasting physical or emotional pain?

Answer 1

Physical. I have felt the weight of emotional pain from a deep hurt inflicted by a love one. It was more than I could carry each day.
I would NEVER want to experience that again.
I had no idea emotional pain could exceed physical pain. It did.

Answer 2

This is one of the most difficult questions I have come across on this forum.
To try to put this into context I can only try to answer your question from my own experience.
When my wife passed away the emotional pain I felt at that time was so great I wanted to commit suicide, it was only the thought of what it would do to my children that stopped me and thankfully that pain has eased with time.
Like many people I suffer with back pain. When I have an attack the pain is so severe I am unable to move for up to 20 minutes and will keep reoccurring for two or three days. If I thought the pain would remain constant, then I don't think I could live with that.
Your question would imply the alternative would be death. It is my belief that death itself is not a thing to fear, only the way we die.
Sorry to be so long winded, but I felt your question deserved a more in depth answer.

Answer 3

Such a hard question to answer to.
Physical pain could be something that can be treated with medication, or something you can learn to adjust to, given enough time to do so...Emotional pain howvever though (if it lasts for that amount of time in your life) must have a really deeper and agonizing reason for it to be there. I think that emotional pain is extremely hard to deal with when the reasons run too deep and you can't find ways to deal with it. The human body is capable of many things, and it can often block out or adjust to physical hurt. However, the mind can be a lot weaker, and emotional pain can't often be treated because for that to happen, you'd have to go back in time and change what caused it to be there in the first place.
Personally, I would rather live with being physically hurt, because at least then I stand more of a chance of being cured, or treated....I'm not sure I could deal with the full effects of emotional pain for too long...And how long can emotional pain last for, before causing you physical grief too?

Answer 4

Pain is not 'obviously uncomfortable,' though it can be.

'Pain' is something subjectively experienced, and what one might refer to as 'a pain,' another might call 'an ache.' However, either or can be subjectively uncomfortable by degrees.

But, putting these aspects of what are worth considering aside.....

I'd rather live with an emotional pain than a physical pain.
I've lived with both and would rate the former as, at least, 'educational,' and have learnt from it. The latter, from my own perspective, has actually taught me nothing I did not already know nor need to know.

Sash.

Answer 5

Pain is what reminds us that we are alive....

Some people unfortunately do not experience pain and then die very quickly

For example if you were being burnt and experienced no pain then you die

Some people have a high threshold to pain, which in fact is only a signal from the nerves to the brain

You can mute pain and in many of my experiences in martial arts it is achievable

However Grief a more personal pain is harder to deal with as it is purely emotional rather than physical

Many people overcome physical pain and indeed the body can block it out

Emotional pain has life of its own and can and does wreck lives as it far harder to deal with Which PAIN do you mean?

There is joy in pain. Take childbirth as an example or the selfless act of taking pain for others that you defend.

Emotionally we should all try to deal with pain but heartbreak or disappointment is harder for me to deal with than anything physical would sacrifice my life for my family or friends easily
but living with the knowledge that others have done that for me is a much harder pain to bear

YET we all do!

Answer 6

I would have to say the physical. Mainly because other people are more understanding towards physical pain than they are towards emotional pain. I suffered from depresion a few years back and so many people found it hard to understand what i was going through or to empathise because it wasn't something they could 'see' . Emotional pain is very lonely!

Answer 7

I obvioulsly wouldn't like to live with either, but if i had to choose, i would rather have emotional pain than physical. I currently have a great deal of physical pain, as i have very weak knees, so i would choose to have no physical pain. I have had a lot of emotional pain in the past but i know i can deal with it. It's on the inside, and i can cope better with it; i'm good at putting a brave face on things, even if i'm hurting inside. For me, it's a lot harder to cope with the physical pain of my knees, than the hurt caused by emotional pain.

Answer 8

emotional pain is too me the worst kind. i have had many broken bones over the years and nothing compares to the emotional pain that i have had.
i would rather suffer a broken bone or kidney stones once a year then suffer from depression i have had all of them and there is no comparison at all having dyslexia brings great saddness to a child i know i have that . i tell you the truth i would not wish this life of mine with the dyslexia such as i have on anyone not hitler not saddam no person and i would even go so far as to say i would give up a my body say by having a finger crushed and lost once a year and then in time a limb and so on i am sure of that emontional pain runs much deeper then bone marrow .

Answer 9

I'd choose to live with physical pain over emotional pain every day. I've experienced both and psychical pain I can cope with; no it's not nice but I feel it can be managed better than emotional pain.

It's a very personal choice though

Answer 10

I have chronic back pain, so I know about living with daily physical pain. I would definitely rather live with the physical pain, because you grow accustomed to it. With emotional pain, it feels just as intense every time it surfaces.