Which Do You Handle Better?

Well, thank God I will never know the pain of labor. lol But like you, I think the emotional pain is a lot harder to handle. Perhaps its because it is pain that is usually a result of someone else's actions that has destroyed those sensitive areas of our psyche. We expose ourselves and someone comes along and causes the pain.

For me physical pain goes away with time.. the injury heals and with pain killers any pain will disappear.. but emotional pain is continuos sometimes it grows bigger with time.. and even when u think u r healed u still have this little thing that triggers from time to time...

I can handle physical pain better. It comes and goes. But emotional pain lasts and lasts. To this day I still wish my ill a$$holes that hurt me back in elementary school!

Before 2005 I had experienced a lot of emotional pain, but very little physical pain. At that time I thought that physical pain was easier to handle than emotional pain, because I had been going through some hard things that had caused me a lot of emotional pain. I thought: "If I had the chance to choose I would prefer physical pain" but in 2005 I had surgery and that really made me change my mind. I experienced extreme physical pain and I found it really hard handle that, it is one of the worst things that I have experienced. If I had to choose between that kind of physical pain and emotional pain today, I know that I would pick emotional pain.

oh i'm with you! i handle physical pain so much better! i've a super high pain threshold. i have 10 tattoo's, two are on my collar bones and one is on the long bone at the front of your foot. i have my nose, and nipple pierced. and used to have my earring piercing hole stretched to 12mm. i have terrible problems with my period etc, but i get through the pain with a hot water bottle, i LOVE my hair being tugged, wheras most people it would really hurt them.. but see if something bad happens? or my partner says something really hurtful.. it kills me, i literally cannot breathe for crying and the pain eats at me to the point where i don't even know who i am.. i have bi polar disorder so my emotions are very hightened all the time.. but i so hear you!!

Physical pain is no problem with me, because I have been used to hard work since childhood. But emotional pain is indeed difficult to handle especially if you are inflicted by it without logical reasons. And even if it hits us everyday we still wonder why can't we just get along with it so it won't affect our daily lives. But we must recognize that things like these can be precursors to depression that may lead to stress. Therefore, it is always well for us to remember that we have a family to take care of and we can't let these stressors get in our of living well and healthy. We all need to be strong how to combat this. We can condition our mind that we are strong and as long as we are not hurting anyone then these feelings are not worthy spending our conscience to and that it better be forgotten. It might take a while but think of yourself and your family who needs you to be healthy for them. And let us all hope that nothing more comes our way while we are trying to forget what is already there.

Personally I know I handle physical pain way more than the Emotional pain. Usually it is because Physical pain, even though you hurt sometimes to where you want to Scream or cry even, just is usually only temporary. Emotional pain usually goes much further, and can leave scars for a lifetime. I know even though I hate both I would rather deal more with the Physical.

I've been through an unbelievable amount of physical pain. Sometimes I can't believe I survived it. And sometimes I can't believe I've made it through the emotional pain that seemed to never end. By far, emotional pain is the worst.

I gave birth with the help of a water pool plus gas and air for my first labor. For my second and third births I managed without any pain relief. I find broken bones very painful and bothersome. I like to be healthy and not have any accidents. I find it hard to handle emotional pain. The worst emotional pain was finding out my baby is disabled 4 years ago. I was 36 weeks pregnant and it was a terrible shock. I found out about his spina bifida and hydrocephalus.

I guess I can say emotional pain for a couple reasons. 1. I have tried with all four of my kids to go without meds and the only one I was able to do this was my third, but not by choice..I wanted meds, but I got the hospital so late, they said by the time the meds would start working,I'd already have the baby..And trust me, that is one birth I'll never forget.. 2. I have lived with emotional abuse most of my life, so though I hate it and know it is wrong, I am more immune to it.. I have talked to many who were in physically abusive relationships I have talked to those who were in physically abusive relationships and most will tell you, they'd rather deal with the physical pain, because they get both and the emotional pain doesn't heal as easily as bruises or broken bones..

I'm with you on this one. I can't do emotional pain at all. I simply lose it. I shut down completely and it takes me a little while to come back to. I have gotten rather good at hiding, but I have also quickly discovered that in order for me to reach the love I seek in life, I may have to open up for that and we all know what happens when you open yourself don't we o_O??

I'd like to say that I can handle physical pain. I've gone through really hard work, and then I felt sorry for myself for doing that kind of job. The emotional pain after that was too unbearable that it drove me to find something else better. From our exchanges here in myLot I think I understand the pain you're going through. I just hope you hang in there!

Physcial pain is much easier to handle. Emotional pain is just horrible and so much harder to deal with and get rid of. It really can be a struggle. I sorry if you are sad or having a hard time. Anything in particular that is causing this?

likewise i can fake the pain in a physical way. but theres a big different on emotional pain,people easily feel that youre about to hide what the pain inside.its not easy to recover if you have emotional pain. it takes too long. and a time to heal that pain.while outside pain heals by medication.hhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm.i hope im right bout this opinion of mind?

For me yes by doing praying to Jehovah God all things would be better try it to be prayed him.

Physical pain is something to get through a little more easier I would think. Granted, I don't think that physical pain would be that much of a picnic all things considered. However there are a lot of times where physical pain is something that you just tend to shut out some of the time and eventually things will get better once you have rested up for a little while. Keeping your mind focused on other things does wonders in tearing down the pain barrier. On the other hand, emotional pain, that is something that is rather extremely more serious and hard to deal with. In the back of my mind, any kind of emotional pain will always be nagging in the back of my head. There will be all kinds of self doubts about things that I wonder if I can take care of the physical pain and everything that goes along with it. Emotional pain is everlasting in many ways and in the end, its really horrific to deal with.

I'm trying to handle emotional pain better than physical pain. It's in the mind. In order to handle physical pain well, we have to tell our mind it's not pain and distract ourself, prevent us from thinking about it. IT should be the same for emotional pain, but somehow it doesn't work that way. I don't like the feeling of emotional pain because it lingers even after many years down the road.

I can handle.. neither. Well, I've never been really into difficult situations either physically or emotionally.. or at least that's what I think. We've been through hard problems like my mom getting seriously sick and we don't have enough money and she was operated five times already and she's feeling pain and I'm sick.. with a lot of sickness. But none of it seems to really bother me inside or out. I don't know if that's being strong or I'm just a person who does not take life seriously. But I think whether we can handle problems or not depends. SOmetimes, we think we can't but when it arrives, we realize we can and we become stronger than before. Challenges make us strong.

i can handle emotional pain, i grew up keeping all my hurts deep within me. It's a reason i feel hard to reach out with people when im emotionally troubled. Physical pain that i can not handle, its a struggle on my part.

I think, physical pain is more bearable than emotional pain. Emotional pain is torturing. Physical pain is much easier to heal than an open wound in the heart. :(