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What's worse?

User Profile: Creamyyy
Creamyyy July 2nd, 2025

What kind of pain is worse?

  1. Physical - like having bodily pain from injury, disease.

  2. Mental- like dealing with painful emotions as in depression, trauma.

Please share your insights- whether from observation, reflection or personal experience.

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For me:

I feel physical suffering is worse for me....

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User Profile: mytwistedsoul
mytwistedsoul July 2nd, 2025

@Creamyyy   In my experience, I think they're both just as bad. Physical pain adds to mental pain and vice versa. 

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User Profile: Creamyyy
Creamyyy OP July 2nd, 2025

@mytwistedsoul thats a really good point... one affects the other... for sure... thanks for sharing your insight ✨️💛

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User Profile: ilovedeath
ilovedeath July 2nd, 2025

@Creamyyy i wanna say mental, it ruined my life

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User Profile: Creamyyy
Creamyyy OP July 2nd, 2025

@ilovedeath I feel ya 😞

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User Profile: Tinywhisper11
Tinywhisper11 July 3rd, 2025

@Creamyyy I think @mytwistedsoul is right they are both so very hard and they do effect each other. 

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User Profile: adventurousBranch3786
adventurousBranch3786 July 8th, 2025

@Tinywhisper11.    @mytwistedsoul.  I agree I find both hard.

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User Profile: jesusredeemedme2425
jesusredeemedme2425 July 3rd, 2025

I honestly think about this a lot. And it's really hard to decide... But mental is worse. Physical heals.

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User Profile: Bryanah
Bryanah July 3rd, 2025

@jesusredeemedme2425 depends. there’s a lot of physical things that cant heal like cancer, fibromyalgia, POTs, arthritis, physical disabilities people are born with like cerebral palsy, etc..

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User Profile: jesusredeemedme2425
jesusredeemedme2425 July 3rd, 2025

Good point <3

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User Profile: miadouble2256
miadouble2256 July 3rd, 2025

@Creamyyy definitely mental

User Profile: JerinJeny
JerinJeny July 3rd, 2025

Mental pain creates physical pain

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User Profile: AddyGotBustedinFlorida
AddyGotBustedinFlorida July 7th, 2025

in my experience, Mental illness may not have been obvious, but when it made me run away from discomfort, it was. Worse yet, when that Affected others with stress and worry for my well-being, it was as if my family and friends caught a cold from me.

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User Profile: baconseizure1
baconseizure1 July 3rd, 2025

Physical wounds heal, but mental scars last forever. Your mind shapes your character.

User Profile: dynamicPlane9150
dynamicPlane9150 July 3rd, 2025

Both are worse.

User Profile: Elliasbugs
Elliasbugs July 3rd, 2025

Mental pain is honestly so much more painful for me, like yeah maybe ill cry after accidentally cutting my finger or getting a bruise. But feeling that like wretched tearing emotion from crying has to be so painful for me. It feels like someone ripped my ribs apart to slowly leave thousands of papercuts on my heart. Theres always this tightening feeling in my throat, it feels like i cant breathe. But theres many things that will never compare to the pain you feel at your lowest.

User Profile: blueWriter2972
blueWriter2972 July 3rd, 2025

Physical easily