Which is easier to handle: physical or emotional pain?

I would have to say physical pain. At least if your hurt physically it may hurt at first; but you know eventually it will go away. With emotional pain it may go away; but you never when it may come back; or it may never go away.

Definately physical pain! I think it depends a lot on your situation. I have a very high threshold for pain due to a connective tissue disorder. Just this year, I went to the emergency room with stomach pains. They couldn't believe it when they found out I had a 5mm kidney stone. To them, it didn't seem like I was in enough pain to have a kidney stone of that size :D

Physical is easier. Usually there is some sort of meds or treatment of some sort to ease the pain, and it eventually goes away. Emotional pain, is much harder to "fix" for most people. The worst is when you have both at the same time, but i suppose if i had to pick, i would say i would rather be in physical pain.

Sometimes it is hard to deal with both pains in life. Having physical pain accompanied by emotional pain can be a real struggles in life.\ If I actually had to have a personal choice I would rather experience physical pain as opposed to emotional pain. I have had my share of mental and emotional struggles and there have been physical problems but they go away. Nothing can take away your feelings long after a trauma could happen.

For me it's easy to handle the physical pain than the emotional pain, the pain that cause you hurt physically is easily to healed and has a cure...but the emotional pain is always there and only you can help your self to be cure and nobody will can helped you when you're emotionally hurt...Because no one can see how deep the pain caused your feelings...

its both,physical and emotional.if u hurt physically it affects also ur emotions..it is very traumatic to u.its not easy to forget everytime u remember those bad things that happened to ur life..emotional pain is a scar in ur heart..u never ever forget for the rest of ur life...

The physical pain would be easir to handle. There are so many medications and ways of reducing the pain. Emotional pain lingers on, temporarily subsiding and then reaching it's heights. It's much more difficult to deal with.

Physical pain as well as Emotional pain are pains which really hurt us in one way or the other we cannot just say since we are physically abused its less compared to Emotional pain, for example we can say if someone is scolding us we wouldn't be able to forget but atleast it has no hurts in body though we are down but when it comes to the other if we are beat by someone even that has hurt our body we are also affection emotionally that we just have grudge feeling on the opposite person.. so thus i conclude none is less and as like you said i dont wanna experience either

This is a good question and has always been a debatable subject. I personally would say emotional pain. Not because the physical type of pain hurts less but because pain inflicted emotionally lasts a lot longer. (Although both can be healed through the course of time.) My ex used to beat me and I let him for how many years. I've never really told my family although my friends found out later. I was able to cope with the beating... but what I was not able to cope with was the constant pain he'd inflict on me emotionally. I came to the point when I lost who I was... I used to be a very vibrant, happy person before I was with him, but after, I just lost it. I also developed an irrational fear of people... and felt that everyone would eventually use me, hurt me and leave me. It took me quite some time to build what I lost... and thankfully, my fiance has showed me how beautiful life can be. This is the rason why I would say that emotional pain is harder to handle because the effects are confound and unknown... a lot of things can go wrong when you are emotionally abused. Physical pain takes less time to heal. That is just my humble opinion of course.

This will always be a debate! There really is no answer to this question. when someone has physical and emotional pain, you can see it as physical symptoms and physical signs. These can be by way the dress and physical appearance or the way they take care of themselves. Emotional pain can enhance physical pain and physical pain can enhance emotional pain, because you begin to feel that there is no hope for you as time goes on. Physical pain is totally misunderstood. It is not always something that we can see and it makes it often hard to understand, and if you have nerve damage it does nto always report to the brain.. "if you dont see some one bleeding or a "scar" or someone with stitches..or they are not using crutches that doesnt mean they do not have physical pain" Physical pain can take on so many forms: from a simple zit,or paper cut to actual physical deformaties that are out of the norm" PHYSICAL PAIN CAN ALSO BE AN INTERNAL ILLNESS; Chron's disease, heart disease (also known as the silent killer..) Emotional pain -can heal with time, but this actally depends on what you define as emotional pain, it is NOT THE SAME AS Mental illness, but can lead to mental illness and one can cause themselves physical pain. Personally, for me I think that both physical pain is much harder to handle. Yes, it causes a lot of depression and when I am in pain I am alot more emotional. I have had 22 yrs of this what i will say Physical and emotional pain. Truthfully, To be fair and if you think long and hard about it- Neither is easier then the other: EX:. When my back hurts and I am having a really bad day, I become totally "emotional" try and "stay to myself' and take a pain med and hope it helps , when it does not help, that can cause a person to want to take more, become more isolated and create a very viscious cycle. This is so hard to understand and unless you have experienced both- You cannot choose.

physical pain is much easier to bear than the emotional pain for me..emotional pain cuts deep and i tend to hold a grudge on it that is why its never easy for me to just forget and leave it behind...i experience both...but i got emotional pain a lot...

Hi there.. In my opinion emotional pains are easier to handle.Physical pains can be very disturbing.One cannot concentrate on any other thing if he/she is suffering physically.But we can control our emotional pains,if you have a control on your mind. We can easily divert from one issue which is disturbing us alot.It just depends on the individual and the type of the situation he/she is in...We usually see people who are subjected from a shock recover easily "if" they are made to interact with others..and they forget about the pain and they enjoy...So Emotional pains are easier to handle.. Any how nice discussion...

I believe both physical and emotional pain is hard to handle. So i would rather not choose any lol. They are both equally painful, emotional pain is hard because its dragging you down to the extent you dont wanna feel anything at all. Some people even wishes they are numb so they wont feel the pain anymore but it doesnt mean physical pain isn't as painful as emotional pain. I have seen patients in the hospital suffering from cancer and other kinds of diseases and i have seen there agony. It is not just about mental and physical pain. It also involves emotional pain knowing that they are dying and they will leave the one they love. Accepting that you are already dying is hard to do specially if you are not ready yet to passed away and leave your love ones. So both are actually equally painful. Nobody would want to experience emotional and physical pain.

In my point of view. Physical pain is easier to handle, coz after awhile the pain neutralizes and eventually its gone. But emotional pain, this is something you have to carry out day by day. Emotional pain opens wounds deep within your heart, eventually you'll get hurt just at a thought of remembering things that once have been part of the days where you've been happy.

I think both are painful. it also depends on the intensity. sometimes the physical pain is so much, its difficult to heal. at other time its easier to heal than mental pain. sometimes its difficult to show mental pain to others as well so you withstand it alone

I really depends on the amount of pain. LOL I mean, pain is pain whatever may be the cause of it. Just think of it, people who are suffering from cancer suffer from tremendous physical pain that just won't go away easily. On the other hand, a lot of people suffer from very intense emotional pain. Losing someone who is very dear to you can be very painful indeed. Whichever way, pain is always difficult to deal with.

Physical pain is easier to handle because our bodies are subject to our minds which can shut off the pain sensors in order to shield us from unbearable pain but emotional pain is a whole different matter. It can keep on being painful long after the cause for the pain has gone.

Both are really worse and quite painful, but I think emotional pain is more painful and hard to handle. Just like you said, there's no actual wound but the pain cuts really deep. For me, in physical pain, even though it really hurts but after the wounds heal, there are chances that the pain inflicted in you will heal as well. Unlike emotional pain, it was hard to erase and forget the pain that it cause you. However, I wish I will not experience these things as well. Have a good day!!!

i think it is the emotional pain which is easier to handle.you say or talk to a good friend. the pain gets alleviated. but in case of physical pain, no best friend of yours, can take away the pain. they can just say soothing words. no real share in the pain. i hope you got my point...

i think physical pain is for short time and as your injury gets heeled up you recover and it will be allright in some certain time and then you dont even remember than injury and you forget. but this doesnot happen with emotional pain where you can take some medicine , apply some ointment, and recover it. emotional pain really hurts the heart and it will directly effect our mind too and we keep on thinking about that pain and always remember that and we always recall that emotional pain what we got. again and again and we become sad and it will never be recovered may be after a some time we forget that pain for a short while but it never completely gets eliminated and it always get remembered if you see some incident around you which has hurt you before and again that pain becomes green for you and will remember that again. and hence i feel physical pain is better than emotional pain but i pray no person should come a cross any pain.