What's worse, physical abuse or mental abuse?

[Anonymous]

Mental

Physical

They're equally bad

[justfluffeh]

While I agree with the other posters that physical marks of abuse fade, in a sense they're not completely right. If someone is being physically abused, they are 9 times out of 10 being mentally abused as well. With physical abuse also comes fear, uncertainty, and self doubt.
I am of the firm belief that both forms are equally horrific, abuse is abuse assbusend neither for is acceptable.
I say this having been a former victim of both myself, it is nothing I would wish on anyone.

[openthedoors]

Physical abuse leads to mental abuse, so it's much worse. Mental abuse is not as big a thing as physical abuse for sure. People are very uneducated about abuse and are simply going by what they think everyone else will put.

[AhGojira]

Beating someone is worse. Obviously getting hit repeatedly on a regular basis is going to take a toll on the mind but you also get the broken bones and bruises with it.

[BertMacklinFBI]

i would rather she telling me all she wants how she wants to torture me instead of actually doing it

[FallOutBoy2001]

Mental. The scares from physical abuse may fade, but the scars from mental abuse stay with you for a lifetime.

[smahala1991]

both are equally as bad. Either way it causes devestation for a long time

[anonman32]

Both are equally as bad, they cause equal amounts of psychological damage.

[Phoenix98]

Bruises heal, mental scars don't.

[Winter_Storm_Guy]

They're both bad to have happen to one.

[Anonymous]

I vote for c but online abuse is the pits.