Would you rather deal with physical pain or emotional stress?

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Yes I know that one can lead to the other. I asked this because this week I’ve been being cross trained in another department at my job and while the work I’ve been doing is even more physical and I’ve been going home tired and sore, I haven’t felt as stressed as when have to work with the lazy, bad attitude people in my department…So for me I rather deal with being a little sore at the end of the day versus stressed and in a bad mood after dealing with people and their bullshit for 10 hours.

Physical pain/sore

Emotional stress

[sage2021]

I've been in so much physical pain that was so bad I would scream and cry. I was seeing a pain specialist that prescribed morphine sulfate and oxycodone for my pain.
It took 6 months of being an inpatient at a wellness center to finally get my life back.
Sadly after three years of good health I relapsed.
Then the COVID-19 vax took away what little freedom I had. I was irreparably damaged from the shots.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Sorry to hear that

[82lynx]

I think it was Al Bundy who said “Flesh grows back”. I bang up my hands quite a bit from tool slippage and the like; I’m trying to be more careful now but those cuts and scrapes are more of a nuisance than anything.

I got ingrown big toenails corrected when I was 16. When the freezing wore off I was in so much pain that even Tylenol 3 wouldn’t help. Better that though than the many years of emotional trauma I had. That had plenty of lasting effects which I combat by watching comedy films, usually with my mom, throwing myself deep into my hobbies and volunteering.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Yeah I’m bruised everywhere (I bruise easy) but those will disappear… glad you found healthy ways to deal with your emotional pain..

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Physical pain can be as bad as emotional pain. Those who say physical pain can just go away can easily said the same with emotional pain. The thing is people tend to compare a heartbreak, distrust, trauma, etc. that can cause them long term mental illness that can cause them physical pain to a simple backpain, sore or wound because "it can just be healed over time" BS. That's not always the case. As someone who's in pain chronically for 6 years, it just doesn't only cause physical pain but it makes you physically tired making you emotionally drained as well.

[Insecure2]

There are ways to ease physical pain, like taking a painkiller, going on a madsage, etc. These can be really effective, but taking care of emotional stress is not so Simple and takes a lot longer.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

"There are ways to ease physical pain, like taking a painkiller, going on a madsage, etc." What kind of physical pain are you even talking about? Those that can just heal? But what if I told you, that's not always the case. It's also easy for one to say you can just take anti depressant, go to a therapy/psychologist, do things that makes you happy, etc.

[Insecure2]

@Aiko_E_Lara I'm talking about for instance joint pain, backpain, a headache or a toothache. And as I have written I think emotional pain (also that caused by depression) is much more difficult to ease in my opinion.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Then that's a pretty unfair comparison if you're talking about those kind of physical pain to a traumatic emotional distress. You can consider that there are actually physical pain that aren't just those that can be healed easily. Someone can have joint pain, back pain, headache or toothache but imagine if those are chronic that can't be just treated easily that can go on for a long term or permanently. That would be a fair comparison.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Or in other words you are comparing an acute pain to a depression.

[Insecure2]

@Aiko_E_Lara well you don't really have to agree with me, but do consider that from my experience mental pain is more serious.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

You can say that. You are entitled to your own opinion but that doesn't mean you can just assume the other. I mean you wouldn't like it if anyone just say just take antidepressant and it will just go away then downplay mental health issues.

[Insecure2]

@Aiko_E_Lara as you have said I'm entitled to my own opinions and I won't change them just because someone else Has a different point of view and tries to force IT upon me. And yes, I was not happy when somebody said just take antidepressants and everything will be OK, but I didn't go around telling them they are unfair in their opinion.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

It doesn't matter if you don't tell them it's unfair or not, you still have the rights to express that one just like I have the right to express how you're being unfair with the comparison and you see, you don't even like it. I mean if someone just pushes you, that doesn't mean you have the no rights to complain nor say anything about it

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Also bashing on the other point of view is different from just simply giving an opinion. "In my opinion you suck but hey that's just my opinion and you don't need to get mad about it as I am entitled to say it"

[Insecure2]

@Aiko_E_Lara exactly my point.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

If that's your point then how come you're not aware of how you're bashing a certain point of view?

[Insecure2]

@Aiko_E_Lara The same way that you aren't aware that you are bashing a different point of view.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

You're doing it first and I'm arguing at your level and your own logic backfired

[Aiko_E_Lara]

"There are ways to ease physical pain, like taking a painkiller, going on a madsage, etc" Apparently for you that's not bashing so there for I talk about the opposite.

[Insecure2]

@Aiko_E_Lara y No you aren't. You are just trying to show me that I'm in the wrong and force me to change my opinion by manipulating my own words. However, as I have said I AM not going to do that just to make you feel satisfied. I consider this 'exchange of views' as finished. I AM no longer going to reply to your comments.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

There's a difference between forcing you to change your opinion and telling you to change how you say your opinion. If you feel so manipulated by it, you can try to grow thicker skin because this is a discussion and you're saying it in public meaning to say I'm allowed to comment on it.

[Bricealan]

Both are hard on you and hard to know which causes the most 'damage'. All of us have probably suffered much of both, and I honestly don't know which I could tolerate more. Physical pain can be relieved by some means, but sometimes the cure does more damage than the pain itself, but in the long run I would chose some kind of physical pain over emotional stress

[Sober_Irishman]

Physical definitely. I gave up a supervisory position because I could not stand babysitting chronic complainers. The job I have now is much more physical, but I love it. I work alone more or less.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Same, I prefer working alone

[Chazmatazz269]

Let’s be clear. Physical soreness from strenuous work is NOT pain. When you’ve been hospitalized for a back injury so severe that you pass out from the pain when you’re not on an opioid drip, THAT’S pain. I hate people and i’d put up with a thousand Karens a day before i suffer like that ever again.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

I know what pain is.. I had back surgery years ago

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Also easy for anyone to say I know what emotional pain is. I had therapy years ago. But then justify "mental illness cannot just be healed with therapy" but you know, that can also be the case with some people who had back surgery which their pain didn't heal at all. And to make it worse, it's waaay much more expensive than a therapy.

[loveslongnails]

Physical pain comes and goes and you're done with it. Emotional stress lingers and takes a lot more time, effort and work to clear out of your mind.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

True true

[Aiko_E_Lara]

"Physical pain comes and goes and you're done with it" Are you sure that's always the case? Or are you just comparing a simple sore, wound or back pain to a tragic event?

[loveslongnails]

@Aiko_E_Lara I wasn't referring to chronic pain.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

And that's the problem. An emotional stress that you say feels like it hurts for a long-term is what you compare to a physical pain that only heals after a while. That's an unfair comparison. There is such thing as an emotional stress that can also be healed over time which is comparable to that kind of physical pain you're talking about.

[loveslongnails]

@Aiko_E_Lara True, comparing the short term pain of a healable, physical ailment to a long term emotional issue is not a fair comparison. So to that end, I'd still rather deal with chronic physical pain that you may or may not overcome than a long term emotional issue which you may or may not overcome. I speak from personal experience, so that's my preference.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I'm unsure. On one hand, emotional stress is literally just asking for a ticking time bomb to go off. But on the other hand, I have zero pain tolerance. Which one is worse? I have no clue.

[XXblack88]

I would take physical over emotional any day of the week.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Right!!

[Wiredone]

I deal with physical pain on a daily basis. I manage to get through my day.

Emotional stress is a killer

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Exactly

[AviatorTom]

A good massage... or ibuprofen... can usually alleviate the physical pain.

There's no such easy cure for emotional stress.

[Kingofkings1992]

There’s drugs

[Bklynbadboy12]

The physical pain is easier to deal with than that emotional shit

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

I think so

[krin_m]

Physical pain is much easier to handle (at least for me).

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Same

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Sorry to say this, but emotional pain.

[Dongie]

Funny, I just thought about that a few hours ago. Physical pain is easier to handle.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

What kind of physical pain are you talking about? Are you comparing a crippling depression to an acute pain?

[Dongie]

@Aiko_E_Lara /I'm so fortunate to have had experiences with both, meaning depression, a word I will not use for myself ever again for over 20 years now, but PTSD, my personal favorite along with nervous or I called it a full mental breakdown and physical damage. I had a severe wreck 27 years ago where I broke both legs and arms while ripping half my face off. The truck flipped 5.5 times end over end with a highway patrol blinding me with his spotlight in my door mirror. A friends mother drove up as she said, "the dust was still settling and I was protruding through three of the 4 windows, head laying on the road," as the truck was upside down. I have broken my left lag at femur and tib& fib and right leg in 3 places at tib & fib, broke my left arm and shattered the elbow, broke my right humerous along with a broken nose and many ribs. Oh, and fractured a bone in my neck like #5 I think it was. I was shot with a 4-10 shotgun in my right hand and they had to sew it to my frontal hip area for a couple weeks to keep the skin graft alive and caught a.38 in my right cheek, just glancing off me so it really was nothing. But all the others hurt quite a bit in the chronic sense. On April 14th, a week ago Sunday, celebrated one year since being run over by a car in the Auto Express parking lot. A young employee was not paying attention and was going 17-18 MPH saying he did not see me. Still under litigation. That increased my chronic pain a good 30-40% and added a couple new pained areas. But with all of that it pales in comparison to the psychological trauma I endured; to which I will not bore you with.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Pretty much the root cause of that trauma is the physical pain. You see, when people say crippling depression can cause physical pain, it actually takes two tango. But if you like to compare psychological trauma which lasts long or for the rest of your life, you can also compare it to something like a broken bone feeling physically that lasts long or for the rest of your life. There are actually some nerve conditions that makes you feel exaggerated physical pain that no cure or treatment had been found for it. The thing is they both just have their own scales of pain and it would only be unfair if you compare something a life long trauma to a pain that can just be cured.

[Dongie]

I respect your opinion and can see you're smart. When the chronic set in November of 99 I suffered panic attacks and that 'D' word pretty hard. But I suffer from a world class case of PTSD, not my diagnoses, a professionals wording. From very young, say 3, I was witness to the worst abuse that I've found documented in many years of study and sessions with Psychologist, Psychiatrists and with professionals in the field of mental health. The abuse was for 31 years of my mothers life but I was around for the last 26 years and about a month at which time I ended it. I drop tears now speaking of it and I am 61. My dad was the monster.

[electromagnetic]

Probably the physical. It’ll go away eventually.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Especially if you have someone who’ll give you a massage lol (wish I did right about now lol)

[Mark987]

100% physical pain... I have had both, and physical pain goes away over time, emotional pain can effect your mental health.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

"physical pain goes away over time" I really wish that was always the case. That's what people always assume

[TonyMetal___86]

None! I'm a cave dweller 😁

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣 okay caveman lol

[TonyMetal___86]

Remember kenny veach's M shaped cave, that's my cave 😈

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

So Kenny there with you?😂🤣

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Or did you eat him as a snack

[TonyMetal___86]

Can't say to keep the mystery alive 😁
You can come and find out for yourself spongy forehead 💆🏼‍♀️😬

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Nah don’t feel like being your next snack 🤪🤣

[TonyMetal___86]

You're a smart sponge but in the end you will fall in my trap 🤓

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Nevah 🤣

[NathanDavis]

only one of these broke me...

[LaurenM1997]

I deal with emotional stress

[douride2]

I do better with physical pain.

[douride2]

Emotional pain makes me a basket case.

[DrPepper12]

Physical pain has immediate remedies.

[sheenagwapa]

physical pain

[Kelly6]

Physical