What do you think, physical or mental, more tiresome?

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10 pts for detailed or good answer

Answer 1

I have experienced both...and I think the physical one is worse.

When you have a job that only use your physical strengh... you come home... fall in a chair... and don't want to move anymore. But your mind is racing and want to do things because you have not used it much.
After a couple of hours rest... I can actually go on the computer and use my brain to do things. But only because I am sitting down.
The worse part is that my body wants to go to bed... but my brain won't shut down. If I do go to bed... I stay awake... thinking about things.

Now... working on the computer for 6 hours will drain me mentally... and I mean real work... not chatting on Yahoo.
But at the end of the day... I can go outside and be physically active... do things... and enjoy myself. I can go and play a game of tennis... or go out for dinner.
I cannot do those things after a day of physical work.

Besides... not all work behind a computer is mentally draining. Only repetitive work is. I often work 12 hours straight on my PC when working on a website for instance... as web design requires many different programs for different things.

The only good thing about physical work is that it keep me fit... while I get fat sitting behind a computer. If it was possible... a combination of both would be ideal.

Answer 2

Wow, this Q is a bit mentally tiresome! j/k :)

Do you actually mean physical STRESS or mental STRESS?
I think that the only good way to answer this is to say that both are fatiguing, but physical is the more immediate as referring to tiresome. And mental stress is more long term fatiguing.

Like the differences between emotional abuse and physical; we get scars with both in one form or fashion -in both abuses. I can personally attest to many consecutive years of both physical AND mental stress; both of which I thought I could no longer withstand.

I DO KNOW, likewise- that mental stress can indeed cause Physical ailments. I cannot answer this. I would have to say mental is more tiresome if I have to choose only one- but both could be the correct answer in regards to the longrun.

Answer 3

Mental. I have a very demanding job both physically and mentally. I have physical struggles with some children everyday but the worst is when there are serious behaviors that must be dealt with mentally. I have come home physically exhausted but mentally feeling like I wanted to just crawl under a rock and die.

Answer 4

I think mental fatigue is much more tiring, because you can't avoid it. Some days you just get headaches, and you use your brain so much for everyday activities that no matter what you are doing, that headache gets worse and worse and worse.
If you are tired physically, you can sit down or lay in a bed and it won't be that bad. If you have to, you can still do normal tasks. I think there is a big difference between these two fatigues.

Answer 5

You can definitely be more mentally tired than physically tired. I mean, if you are physically tired you can sit down or sleep, but its not that easy mentally, you can't just rest your brain...that's why people kill themselves, their families, or hurt others. think about it.

Answer 6

Definitely Mental, physical you can rest and your okay....mental is much harder to recuperate therefore, more tiresome...

Answer 7

both. Physical -tires your body first & fast, mental tires your brain and this in turn tires your body. u end up tired in both the case

Answer 8

mental is more, ill take physical any day over mental....

Answer 9

mental definately