In my opinion, I think emotional pain hurts more. When I'm in depression, I don't have the will to do anything - which pretty much affects on how I do in school. A broken arm or leg doesn't affect me much; the pain is pretty much quick and then it stops hurting after a while.

What do you think?

yeah..thats true. emotional pain hurts a lot. and sometimes emotional pain leads to physical pain

haha, thats a perculier question...i guess on which context u r talking bout, i could saw of ur hand, that's painful, but what about losing ur girlfriend that u really love and been together for years?
since i havent felt the love lost thing yet, perhaps im not in a position to jusge but,what i can say is..
its how one particular person takes it, and how does it differ to how another person takes it.

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physical pain could be long term also, so thats another thing,but for now i would go with emotional.

Physicals scars can heal overtime.
But this isnt the case for emotional scars.
They never heal
The only medicine for it would be love <3

Physical. Cuz that crap hurts bad! I'm so happy I'm stil in one piece.

Emotional pain hurts worse. A physical wound will heal. It may leave a scar but that scar is there to remind you not to do that in the future. An emotional pain leaves a scar that's too deep for any medicine except, as drastikhate says, love.

haha, good question. emocional is worse at first however you eventully harden your heart to it, yet the physical will always hurt, time after time. trust me, i know. that been said, when your hurting on the inside, things dont hurt as much on the outside...

I don't really think they are measurable or comparable, but unless you put yourself in the shoes of someone who suffers from chronic pains of any type (strong and frequent migraine attacks, severe spinal damage, etc. -- stuff that will even prevent you from sleeping unless heavily medicated), I'm not sure any of you are in a position to judge the difference fairly. Because physical pain is about more than breaking an arm or stubbing your toes against something hard.

And you say emotional pain never goes away. That's only because you, as individuals want it so. Emotional pain can be overcome if you set your will against it.

Of course, when you include both -- rape/abuse cases, pedophilia, torture and things like that -- then you're in a whole other ballpark, and probably the worst one of all. Because all those cases assault physically AND mentally.

Physical hurts more, but emotional it's more difficult to be repaired.

Physical pain hurts, but usually fades away faster than emotional pain...so in the end emotional pain hurts more...well, that's my logic anyways.

Hahahah. I'm the only one that voted for physical pain. I say physical pain hurts more you're sore and really want it to end, other than commiting suicide. Sometimes you'll even have something broken and have to wear a cast or whatever. And you feel like crap. Emotional just makes you feel like sh.t all the time, no mind curling pain at all.

If someone's at the point where getting emotional hurts, I'd say go talk to someone. I can only be literal here.. Since I've never felt any kind of emotional pain at all..

I've had both physical and emotional pain and even though they say words will never hurt you...can't say much when the people that do the emotional hurting are your own blood/family members when you are a mere child and they scar you for the rest of your life and are always there haunting you

Both influence the other. Being injured tends to depress you, but being depressed emotionally will always manifest itself in physical ways, too. It's kind of lose-lose. Some might argue physical pain is temporary, but I find it isn't too hard to boost someone's mood, either.

although physical pain are sometime much more painful than emotional pain, but physical pain heal a lot faster than emotional pain. And sometime emotional pain don't even heal through the course of time...

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt me.

And for anyone saying physical pain hurts: ever heard of terminal illnesses, like cancer?

emotional pain... I hear from some friends that if you are depressive enough, you can cut yourself and you wont feel pain, you feel RELAXED... they say it`s because you feel so bad emotionally that the brain doesnt feels the physical pain... thanks god I havent done that...

Emotional pain because you don't know whether or not you can ever heal from it. Physical hurt eventually goes away. You never know if emotional pain ever does.

Emotional. Definitely.

I think both hurts. But people will overcome the odds when their mind are strong. Physical pain means nothing when people have a purpose to endure it. However, if the mind breaks, everything will be in vain.

Emotional, I don't know where to hold or grasp when I'm heartbroken or sad. I cannot feel the pain anywhere but at the same time pain is everywhere and anywhere I go. I can endure physical pain, knowing that it'll somehow end, subside, or cured by a remedy. But there's no way anyone can redeme my emotional wounds.

Emotional, I think. You can't clean it with alcohol or put a band aid on it. I also think that the two are somehow linked to each other sometimes.

I think physical pain hurt the most, but not for very long. I don't think the emotional pain will ever go away, just be temporary "forgotten" if you know what I mean..

I've recently discovered that spilling hot tea all over your leg hurts a hell of a lot.

of couse is emotional!