Why dose word like “stupid, fat and ugly” make people become sad and live with pain? Why words cause pain?

Question

Why dose word like “stupid, fat and ugly” make people become sad and live with pain? Why words can cause pain?

It’s only a word (It’s not a rock) or in physics a wave of sound and its cause pain to the human and make his hair from black to gray to white.

Answer 1

It is not the words that cause pain, but rather the horrible truth that they are stupid, fat, and ugly that causes pain.

Answer 2

Simple.

Rocks, when thrown can cause Physical pain.

Words, when used in the context you described will cause Emotional pain.

Of course, its not the words themselves that do this, but the meaning behind them. People don't like to be thought of as "fat, stupid, and ugly". Especially since people these days seem to live on what others think of them.

Answer 3

Part of the human condition is that there are things that science doesn't explain comprehensively such as love and such as why hurtful words cause dysphoria on a physiologic level.  On a simpler level, people don't like disparaging or derisive comments which serve only to make the disparaged party upset.  I don't have a neurophysiologic explanation for you, but for whatever reason, we don't like things that upset us, whereas we do enjoy things that give us pleasure.

Answer 4

Because words are said to convey a feeling.

and saying someone is 'stupid, fat and ugly' puts the thought in that someone's head that they ARE 'stupid, fat and ugly' and thoughts control feelings and the feeling is most often hurt, embarassment, or sadness.

Unless of course they use their own reasoning:

-that the person saying this is just a lameass and they shouldn't take their words into account.

Answer 5

Because it reminds them that they have disadvantages when compared to someone who isn't stupid, fat and ugly. I don't want to hear the Christian whining bull$hit about "what's on the inside matters". The reason that those words cause pain is because they convey truth, and also because those things matter to EVERYONE. Everyone wants a physically attractive and smart partner. They just pretend to not care by trying to forget the truth about their ugliness. That's why pain is caused every time the issue is brought up.

Answer 6

The kind of people who say these things are the type of people who enjoy spreading negativity. They want to hold power over the people they are abusing. They will target the weak, people who will listen and take these words like a bullet to the head. The motive of the speaker is key, not the target of these words, because the target has been chosen for their apparent weakness by the speaker. Another question to be asked is Why do people verbally abuse others? ( Call them 'Fat', 'Ugly' etc) YAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSS 10 F***ING POINTS!!! GET IT UP YE!!