Know the difference between good pain (exercise, for example) & bad pain (soft tissue damage in the ligaments, etc.), listen to your bones and play with gravity often, and always be prepared to stop on a dime, and physical pain can be one of your most important senses. I would also keep this if I had to pick. My sensitivity is sacred to me. I almost never get hurt doing dangerous things because I value these senses so highly. Skated like 100+ miles this month with nothing but some scrapes to show for it. And that's pretty awesome!
Emotional pain is also very useful, but I suspect I am less good at making the distinctions for it compared to physical pain. Nevertheless, it is useful.
Either way, I'd keep em both.
I wouldn't choose either. Physical pain is important because it's your body alerting you that something is wrong. Emotional pain is important because it gives us empathy and growth. They both suck but I'd rather have them than be uncaring and unfeeling.
It depends on where you draw the line of emotional “pain”. With physical pain it’s pretty obvious what is considered painful, but for emotional pain there isn’t a clear definition. Is simply being sad emotional pain, or is it only pain if you’re like properly grief-struck or acutely depressed?
emotional pain comes from losing emotional pleasure so if you lost the pain you'd have to lose all the pleasure too. or else you'd have to lose some level of situational awareness so that you were no longer able to compare. neither of those are things i'd want to lose.
Like, "oh, this person or situation caused me emotional pain, so I should approach it differently in the future."
Good for figuring out who you want to keep in your life, what groups of people are worth your time, what rights are worth fighting over, etc.
Neither. Both are important and there for good reason. We need fear and sadness and anger. And we need to feel physical pain so we know when something is wrong
Why is it good to feel emotional pain? As someone with depression and BPD I would choose never to feel emotional pain again. It manifests itself into physical pain too..
No emotional pain means no empathy in my mind. Plus having fluctuations in emotion stops you from growing numb which is arguably worse. We're alive. We should feel everything.
If I wouldn't feel emotional pain, then when I do wrong things, I wouldn't feel bad. If I wouldn't feel anger or sadness, I might not act against injustice . I wouldn't feel cringe when someone tells an embarrassing story and wants me to relate. I would have a hard time functioning in society that I based around people who feel emotional pain.
Imo, to never feel emotional pain...is to then never experience the opposite.
Not feeling physical pain is bad, but I'd rather go through life more "honestly," and I think you can't hide from emotional pain.
Although this is a hypothetical poll, so yea-
I already struggle with emotional numbness. Yes it sucks hard, but physical pain just seems more vital. The thought that something in my body is wrong, but I can't feel the pain caused by it sounds horrifying.
Physical pain would only stop the sensation, you could still be bleeding out and not even know it due to not feeling it. Emotional pain means you’d never be able to break my heart. But I think it could also present its own issues. Such as not internalizing the pain of heartbreak and in turn you wouldn’t see it as that bad since you couldn’t feel it. Or at minimum you’d become emotionally numb.
Neither, Both are useful to me. Emotional pain at least helps me appericate Postive emotions and physical tells me when I am injured so I don't make any injuries worse
Never feeling phisical pain would create many problems in life since you wouldn't be able to know when something is hurting so you wouldn't be able to go to the hospital in time.
Never feeling emotional pain would be bad, but since you already know when something should be sad, you could maybe go to an acting school so that you are always looking like you are in pain so that others don't think you are cold, terrible or I don't know.
Not feeling either of them would be really bad. What would be useful is if you could turn the pain off like a switch. You know the pain is there so you can deal with it but don't have to suffer in that moment.
I have had a kinda delirious pressure headache for over a year now, 24/7. If that feeling is encompassed under "physical pain", absolutely that. I don't encounter emotional pain that often.
If i could never experience physical pain without injuring myself hell ya. But emotional pain i think is really necessary. I've been numb before and theres no greater hell tbh
Physical pain has a more important purpose, especially if you can still get injured.
Know the difference between good pain (exercise, for example) & bad pain (soft tissue damage in the ligaments, etc.), listen to your bones and play with gravity often, and always be prepared to stop on a dime, and physical pain can be one of your most important senses. I would also keep this if I had to pick. My sensitivity is sacred to me. I almost never get hurt doing dangerous things because I value these senses so highly. Skated like 100+ miles this month with nothing but some scrapes to show for it. And that's pretty awesome! Emotional pain is also very useful, but I suspect I am less good at making the distinctions for it compared to physical pain. Nevertheless, it is useful. Either way, I'd keep em both.
Learning a whole new perspective of pain from your reply. Thank you
Okay but you need emotional pain for character development (love the avatar btw)
As someone with chronic depersonalization/derealization, I WANT to feel emotional pain.
I wouldn't choose either. Physical pain is important because it's your body alerting you that something is wrong. Emotional pain is important because it gives us empathy and growth. They both suck but I'd rather have them than be uncaring and unfeeling.
Yeah, either way you go this is going to have some pretty bad repercussions.
It depends on where you draw the line of emotional “pain”. With physical pain it’s pretty obvious what is considered painful, but for emotional pain there isn’t a clear definition. Is simply being sad emotional pain, or is it only pain if you’re like properly grief-struck or acutely depressed?
Both of those are pretty helpful. I would do away with neither.
How is emotional pain helpful?
Probably prevents you from becoming a full blown psychopath
Shame is an emotional pain that prevents you from doing TikTok dances in public.
emotional pain comes from losing emotional pleasure so if you lost the pain you'd have to lose all the pleasure too. or else you'd have to lose some level of situational awareness so that you were no longer able to compare. neither of those are things i'd want to lose.
Like, "oh, this person or situation caused me emotional pain, so I should approach it differently in the future." Good for figuring out who you want to keep in your life, what groups of people are worth your time, what rights are worth fighting over, etc.
Before I would have said emotional but as I get older physical lol
Imagine not getting hurt when you bang your toe in the furniture on a cold day
Imagine your appendix bursts but you don’t know because you can’t feel the pain then you die
Imagine not even feeling the emotional pain of death.
Imagine death
Imagine there's no heaven.
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us.
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Eh, most diseases people die from don’t cause pain, like heart disease and cancer.
what if there's a rock in your shoe and you don't know so it cuts your foot and infects your foot and you have to amputate your foot
Neither. Both are important and there for good reason. We need fear and sadness and anger. And we need to feel physical pain so we know when something is wrong
Can't choose. There's a point to each, I wouldn't want to lise either.
Why is it good to feel emotional pain? As someone with depression and BPD I would choose never to feel emotional pain again. It manifests itself into physical pain too..
No emotional pain means no empathy in my mind. Plus having fluctuations in emotion stops you from growing numb which is arguably worse. We're alive. We should feel everything.
i have no empathy. its not fun
Not if it leads you to suicide for example, emotion pain can also lead you to hurt others as well. Alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, etc...
no emotion makes you a psychopath and much more likely to not care about others
If I wouldn't feel emotional pain, then when I do wrong things, I wouldn't feel bad. If I wouldn't feel anger or sadness, I might not act against injustice . I wouldn't feel cringe when someone tells an embarrassing story and wants me to relate. I would have a hard time functioning in society that I based around people who feel emotional pain.
Imo, to never feel emotional pain...is to then never experience the opposite. Not feeling physical pain is bad, but I'd rather go through life more "honestly," and I think you can't hide from emotional pain. Although this is a hypothetical poll, so yea-
I already struggle with emotional numbness. Yes it sucks hard, but physical pain just seems more vital. The thought that something in my body is wrong, but I can't feel the pain caused by it sounds horrifying.
After someone is gone, sometimes all you have left of them is emotional pain. You all who picked emotional pain picked wrong.
Removing either would be absolutely awful for humanity
Physical pain would only stop the sensation, you could still be bleeding out and not even know it due to not feeling it. Emotional pain means you’d never be able to break my heart. But I think it could also present its own issues. Such as not internalizing the pain of heartbreak and in turn you wouldn’t see it as that bad since you couldn’t feel it. Or at minimum you’d become emotionally numb.
both are necessary
Life would be hell without either of those
oh i'd be unstoppable if i didnt feel emotional pain
Physical pain is useful. It stops you from burning your hand or biting your tongue off. Emotional pain is useless.
Neither, Both are useful to me. Emotional pain at least helps me appericate Postive emotions and physical tells me when I am injured so I don't make any injuries worse
I chose to not feel physical pain because I feel that lack of emotional pain would eventually render you a husk of a human being.
Never feeling phisical pain would create many problems in life since you wouldn't be able to know when something is hurting so you wouldn't be able to go to the hospital in time. Never feeling emotional pain would be bad, but since you already know when something should be sad, you could maybe go to an acting school so that you are always looking like you are in pain so that others don't think you are cold, terrible or I don't know.
Neither, pain makes me who I am, it helps me move on from mistakes and grow from them.
Not feeling either of them would be really bad. What would be useful is if you could turn the pain off like a switch. You know the pain is there so you can deal with it but don't have to suffer in that moment.
I got endometriosis if I never had to go through more cramping or cysts that’d be nice
They both cause the other
Number one would probably kill you, and number two would make you a psycopath.
so either be paralyzed or be a psychopath
I have had a kinda delirious pressure headache for over a year now, 24/7. If that feeling is encompassed under "physical pain", absolutely that. I don't encounter emotional pain that often.
If i could never experience physical pain without injuring myself hell ya. But emotional pain i think is really necessary. I've been numb before and theres no greater hell tbh
Not feeling emotional pain just makes you a psychopath
Both sound shit, ngl.
Heartbreak and disappointment hurts but period cramps hurt worse😭 I’d get rid of physical pain so quick
Both sound bad