Why is emotional pain so much more painful than actual physical pain?

Question

Please answer this question too, in relation to above question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Amd.6Rur8F3hn9QJnIxcYITC7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20080810060650AAAd8Wi

Answer 1

Physical pain has a terminus.  It usually doesn't last long.  emotional pain can take years to heal.

Answer 2

physical pain in a healthy person is transitory, when you stub a toe you swear hop around then the pain fades and you get on with life and forget about it, when some body else hurts you deeply emotionally either by their actions or inaction it remains with you to be remembered and refelt

even when that person is long gone or you have left a stressful situation

behind, it's the memory of the soul wound that is always there with you that is so much more painful.  

Answer 3

Emotional pain strike right at heart,

n sometimes, it may b so deep

that it may became inrecoverable

n some old memories can never ever b forgotten

a emotional pain just changes d whole world !

n makes one complety numb

a human body has a gr8 endurence power

physical pain is easy to handle in front of emotions

emotions just becames one's weakness

hey, dis is sid

n i answered other Qs by u too

Answer 4

EMOTIONAL PAIN EFFECTS EVERY BEING OF YOUR BODY. MIND, HEART, STOMACH, CAN'T FUNCTION PROPERLY. PHYSICAL PAIN WEARS OFF QUICKLY.

Answer 5

That's the kind of question you only ask if you haven't been through actual serious physical pain, like a car crash, or being tortured.  After these things, being rejected at a party or whatever maybe doesn't seem so bad.

Answer 6

People with chronic pain problems might object to this. Although emotional pain does lead to a certain amount of deadening of physcial stimulus (including physical pain) so the comparison of emotional and physical pain then seems less. Physical pain is often also more acute (the kind we most often experience anyway), which is a very different senstation, so objective comparision is difficult. Not to mention, if you feel the emotional pain is important, it distorts past memory of physical pain and distorts to perceptions at present. It's subjective, in other words.

Answer 7

Emotional pain is physical pain, just starts from your brain. It's like your limb being torn from your body but the realization of it isn't there.  A spouse can actually die from severe depression after their loved one dies, their heart gives out from complications of shock.  The two are intertwined.  Physical can heal faster and may not include the heart area so it may seem to be less painful.

Answer 8

O.o becuz your body heals on its own and you have to help your mind heal...

Answer 9

Emotional pain can cut straight to the soul.  

Answer 10

Because emotional pain is inside ur heart whereas physical pain only heal from the outside..