What's the worst pain you've ever felt?

[Yumix]

Was it physical or emotional pain and what caused it?

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Emotional

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[Anonymous]

Emotional pain.

When I had the worst anxiety and depression, I thought I'd never graduate, get a job, and thought I was just a failure. For months I stayed in bed, sleeping instead of living. I couldn't bare sitting alone at lunch, people looking at me, feeling like a hideous disgusting waste of everyone's time. I stayed in bed for months, my parents yelling at me, the school threatening punishments as motivation. Dreams were the only enjoyable thing, they were my life. I enjoyed nightmares more than real life. Anything was better. I was so afraid of school that when I had an excruciatingly painful flesh eating virus, it was nothing compared to the anxiety. I had to get it surgically chopped out, and only could think "it's better than being at school". In the mornings I cried, shaking, all I could do was pray to God "Please Lord, kill me. I want to die." over and over.
People can actually understand and sympathize with physical pain. It can often be cured. People are nicer when you're in physical pain.
But no one can see emotional pain. Depressed people can just be called lazy, anxious people called stubborn. It can't be cured, you can only cope. People don't understand or care. They think it's made up. It impacts your whole outlook on life, and everything you do.

That was a while ago though. I'm good now.

[Opinion Owner]

Oh and another emotional pain.. watching my grandpa die. Grief and guilt. He developed dementia and Parkinson's. He used to love playing games with us. I took it for granted and didn't visit him sometimes because of laziness or being busy. As dementia progressed, he couldn't play scrabble anymore. Just got confused, would get up and walk around. But still happy to see us. It broke my heart, made me want to go back in time and play all his favorite games with him. Watched him in hospice, unable to talk or move, or eat but still aware we were there. Only days to live. I missed hearing him speak, missed his strong stubborn funny self. Missed my grandpa who climbed mountains, wrote bikes, travelled every state, loved trains, walking, sudoku puzzles, uno, scrabble, took pride in his full headed hair and walking abilities until age 93 when he needed a walker, then wheelchair. I couldn't help but cry when he was lying in bed not moving, said he was trying to sit up, but it was too hard.

[Smmyskittles]

Physical, ovarian cysts. Some fluid from them was dripping down to my pelvis floor. Even pain meds didn't help much, they only helped dull it. Not completely numb it or make it go away.

Never have I felt such pain before. Not even losing virginity comes close.

Had surgery to remove them, about 3 years ago. No issues since! [[ knock on wood ]].

[NoAbyss]

My best friend overdosed. At the time I was trying to work up the guts to ask her to move back to my city to be with me. Those words were never spoken. I stayed awake in the hospital for the first 3 days and nights until exhaustion finally won. It took a week before she finally left me. 11 years later and it's still very raw.

[cth96190]

Emotional.
I have been shot, stabbed, broken bones, had a strangled hernia and a list of other injuries.
None of it got even close to the pain that I felt when my first serious girlfriend broke my heart when I was 21.
Three months, locked away in a room, begging God to kill me to make the pain stop.

[ScorpioMoonChick]

Let's see.

My worst physical pain would be when my abscess tooth had to get ripped out when I was 11... It was infected, so no matter how many numbing shots there were, I still felt it. So I had to squeeze a rubber ball through a 2 hour procedure full of pain.
And yeah, I have gave birth too, but tbh the abcess tooth hurt much, much worse. And no, I wasn't on pain meds then, lol.

And then the worst emotional pain would have to be the general feeling of your life crumbling down all at once. When I was pregnant, my great grandmother died. Then I pretty much argued with everyone about the baby, then broke up with my baby's father, whom I was with for almost three years and was my first serious relationship, saw that he got with someone else within two weeks, not even; grandfather died, then had the baby and then moved. I felt like a huge emotional wreck, but hey, I really was.

[Katerina_Belle]

Emotional:
I'm not going to say what happened, but my cheeks were burning hot - like I'd been slapped on both sides lol - it felt like something inside me dropped and I lost all hunger for 3 weeks. For 3 weeks I lived on liquids because I physically couldn't eat because the thought of food would make me gag. I couldn't sleep either so I had to physically exhaust myself by going to the gym.

So I didn't eat, went to the gym for 2 hours every day after work, and only then would sleep come to me.

Physical: Migraines with an aura! They are the worst kind of pain around and the aura makes it worse because for myself as it affects my vision and hurts the back of my eyes too.

[Mustachekitteh]

Physical is nothing and easy to get through as long as you take a lot of deep breathes or hold it for a bit.

Though the most physical pain was when I accidentally took my adhd medication at night. Meaning I had 100mg of the stuff in my system which the strongest dosage was 70mg. It was a brutally rough nigh and felt like all the blood veins in my body were going to explode. Then I ended up being to horribly dizzy to walk at all and just waited for it all to pass. So I didn't get to sleep that night at all.

Emotional was when this one dude broke up with me. I was so horribly depressed I couldn't eat for 4 days straight and just felt nothing but sorrow. It's the most intense emotion I have ever felt. Now if my current boyfriend broke up with me for some reason. That would end up being the worst emotional pain I would ever experience and honestly would break me to the point of never recovering.

[Sara413]

I don't think physical and emotional pain can be compared..

Worst physical pain was when I broke my humurus bone and nose in a snowboarding accident. It was bruuuutal.

Worst emotional pain was when my 11 year old cousin died in a car crash when I was 16. That also happens to be when I stopped believing in God, which was a painful process in and of itself after being raised to believe for so many years.

[Yumix]

okay maybe this is a stupid question or too personal, but I'm curious (it's a bad thing, I know)

there die every day hundreds of innocent people in car crashes around the world. I understand how the loss of your cousin is horrible moment in your life, but I don't understand how it changes your religious beliefs because before that accident, you knew that it happens all the time too. You know what I mean?

[Sara413]

I was 16 years old and still developing emotionally and physically... my belief system was inherited and until that particular event, I'd never had any impetus to question it. Of course I "knew" people died in car crashes and bad things happened all the time, but until that point I'd never really had to think about it... so I just kind of went along with the beliefs I'd been raised with not really thinking too hard about them.

Then my cousin was taken from us and I was devastated. And then I was angry. Very fucking angry. And I decided that if God was real I hated him and wanted nothing to do with him. From there the anger fostered and caused me to actually start questioning my beliefs. It wasn't til I was about 20 that I fully accepted and acknowledged that I didn't believe in God anymore, but it was losing my cousin that started that unraveling and started me questioning everything.

[Yumix]

okay thanks for explaining :)

[Anonymous]

I've had very bad physical pain, but nothing compares to emotional pain, because with physical pain you can take some medication and it can relieve you for a while, but there's nothing you can really do to get rid of emotional pain, for me the strongest pain you can feel is when you hurt the person you most love, I cheated on my ex once, and even though I know it hurt him more than anything, I've never felt a greater pain, seeing how hurt he was, how it was consuming him, was the hardest thing I've had to go through, knowing that he wanted to kill himself because of something I had done, he got over it eventually, I don't think I ever did, it still haunts me today, that's why I know I'll never cheat again

[Rainie_]

Maybe physical. I haven't been through heart break yet but I don't take rejection well so it would probably become a big deal for me when it so happens.
As for currently, worst pain was physical. Woke up one day with very low blood pressure and a pain in my stomach that hurt so painfully bad I fainted over and over. Felt like I was being ripped in two. Literally.

[soulbabe]

Heart break ant as bad as people say

[lime_rampljuset]

The worst pain was a emotional one... it was when I received the news my biological had passed away. I never had the chance to meet them, since they gave me into adoption since I was a baby. Not having the opportunity to know them alive broke me down.

[jessicorn]

i dont really feel like saying what it was... but i have felt emotional pain which hurt more than physical pain... which is why i had to cut myself more than once to not feel that pain anymore

[soulbabe]

when i had to watch the dog i had senc i was 6 till i was 14 bleed out

[Yumix]

seeing your pet die is always a horrible feeling

[soulbabe]

seeing your pet die is bad but watching them bleed out for over 4 hours in your arms till your mom gets home with her friend so thy could take her out back and put around in her skull knowing she did not need to die she only died because some sick evil bastard fed her ground glass to rip her apart from the inside hurts way more i have had pets die before but that crushed me i remember crying and pleading for her not to leave me i remember holding on to her and petting her head saying it will be ok i remember after she was gone i did not want to move i cried till there was nothing left to cry till it was just the sound of whipping i stayed like that for 2 weeks and even now after 2 years if i think to hard on her i will still cry

[teawrecks]

Physical, back.

I had slept on the same mattress for damn near 23 years. Finally bought a new one this year. Back pain = nonexistent

[minnesotakate14]

So much emotional I can't even list it all.
A bit ago i was hit with so many emotional things I couldn't take it anymore. Then I met someone who really helped me and after that the greatest person ever came into my life

[SilentShadow]

My dad leaving. That was 3 years ago and I'm still not completely over it.

[April10]

Emotional is worse. It leaves scars that can't be so easily fixed

[Harbor]

It was an emotional kind of pain. This pain I won't ever live to tell the tale.

[Anonymous]

Probably panic attacks, which are some devil combination of the two.

[sixnineanon]

Emotional pain is the worst. It tempted me to do terrible things.

[PersianPrincessss]

My period. Dear god it's like a shark eating me out.

[Melcart23]

Emotional by far. The pain of heartbreak is unmatched

[soulbabe]

Heart break?

[Melcart23]

@soulbabe yeah

[soulbabe]

um dont get it

[Melcart23]

@soulbabe HEARTBREAK!!! What don't you get about that?

[soulbabe]

i dont get what makes it so bad or hard to deal with

[Melcart23]

@soulbabe You're 16. Hopefully you won't have to feel it, but if you do, you'll know what it is

[soulbabe]

um had a boyfriend for 6 months he left me for another girl i cried maybe 30 min punched a tree light a letter on fire and was done so i was back to norm in less than 2 hours

[Melcart23]

@soulbabe great

[soulbabe]

but it could be because i had felt something worse in my eyes

[Dred1614]

Physical: breaking my arm
Emotional: losing my aunt and uncle 6 months apart from one another

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

I don't know

EMotional because of the physical