Is emotional or physical pain worse?

Neither, they feel as good as each other
Seriously though, both can cause death and it may depend on the person. Personally emotional pain is something I couldn't handle, like that being caused by the loss of a loved one.

Physical is obviously worse, if someone peeled your skin off and rolled you in salt you wouldn't be thinking 'oh well, at least my girlfriend didn't break up with me recently'.

Physical is obviously worse, if someone peeled your skin off and rolled you in salt you wouldn't be thinking 'oh well, at least my girlfriend didn't break up with me recently'.

You don't seem to have experienced any real emotional pain since you wouldn't be saying that if you lost a family member. I'd rather have my skin peeled off and jump into a bath full of salt than lose any of my family.

Paracetemol mighy not help with burns, but morphine probably would.

You don't seem to have experienced any real emotional pain since you wouldn't be saying that if you lost a family member. I'd rather have my skin peeled off and jump into a bath full of salt than lose any of my family.

Nothing is worse than a cluster headache w/ occular pressure. NOTHING.

I'm sorry to tell you the bad news, but you are going to lose family members — all of us will and will have to adapt to their absence. If this was a hypothetical 'would you rather' question, sure, I'd choose temporary physical pain (although, love you grandpa, but I'm not sure about the peeled off skin and salt bath thing).

It would be interesting to see some scientific studies on this actually and how does the brain react to each. At this point though, I could equally argue that you haven't experienced any serious chronic physical pain to say that emotional is a bigger deal.

I always think like that; sometimes I feel I need to just detach myself from people so I don't miss them.

come on bruh you don't need to detach yourself from me I'll be there ;P

Well they're re-occuring, for life.. so it's hard to compare.

This is why emotional pain is usually thought of as worse, because it's much harder to manage, and lasts longer.

But man, if you throw cluster headaches into the mix, lifelong pain that you never get used to..I'm gonna have to say I agree with you there. I've watched videos on youtube of people having attacks and they are reduced to tears it's so horrible.

They suck mate. It's never something you can get used to because they're not always present, they just crop up regularly. I get them once or twice every couple of weeks atm, was getting them twice a week at one point. Suppose if I had to describe it, it's like someone smashing you over one side of the head really hard with a bat, then stabbing you in the eye with a screwdriver and leaving it there. Then every so often they come back and give it a waggle and hit you over the head again. When they're at their worst the pain is so severe that you're actually physically sick. Lovely

does oxygen help??

They're doing research into the use of LSD as a potential cure........

Not for me Tried various types of painkillers but no cigar. There are some dedicated meds that some find helpful but it's just getting a GP that will prescribe them where they're pretty new.

Personally I would say psychological pain in the worst and most long lasting. However it wasn't an option.