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WOULD YOU RATHER SUFFER FROM MENTAL-EMOTIONAL ANGUISH OR PHYSICAL PAIN??

catlover — Sat, 31 May 2014 17:53:06 GMT

They are both bad-but I think physical pain is worse.

If the pain is bad enough-it will cause mental anguish.

I'm just thinking of this topic because I have a terrible pain in my lower back and abdomen from a kidney stone at the moment..................

Re: WOULD YOU RATHER SUFFER FROM MENTAL-EMOTIONAL ANGUISH OR PHYSICAL PAIN??

MomOf4 — Sat, 31 May 2014 17:54:39 GMT

Shouldn't you get to the hospital and get that stone taken care of?

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stilltamn8r — Sat, 31 May 2014 17:55:22 GMT

Neither, thank you very much......

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gazelle77 — Sat, 31 May 2014 17:57:29 GMT

gosh.... let me ponder that and get back to you......... probably NONE. I suffered with HORRIBLE knee pain in both knees for 10 plus years.... when I got to the point of using crutches I knew I was wheel chair bound so got them replaced. Physical pain controls your life... mentally and physically. I hope you get the stone passed or can get help for it.

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Moonlady — Sat, 31 May 2014 18:00:24 GMT

Neither, but I had my first (and last, I hope) kidney stone back in 2010. Ouch!

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stilltamn8r — Sat, 31 May 2014 18:05:38 GMT

To be thinking like this, you must be in intolerable pain, can't they do lithotripsy or something for your stone??????

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just bee — Sat, 31 May 2014 18:11:39 GMT

At the same time my little Italian mother was battling Alzheimer's, a coworker's little Italian mother was racked with constant, agonizing physical pain. My mother was in her eighties and could bend at the waist and put her palms flat on the floor. She tap danced for her doctors. But her mind was dying.

My coworker's mother was in her nineties and sharp as a tack -- her mind allowed her to be fully aware of the agony she was experiencing. She was on massive doses of morphine with little relief.

The coworker and I always debated this. Which was "better?" Which would we prefer?

I think I know.

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LilacTree — Sat, 31 May 2014 19:11:04 GMT

I have been suffering from daily physical pain for over ten years now. And I have suffered from mental anguish as well (loss of my beloved sister, other serious family issues).

I'll take the physical pain any day.

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ShowMe — Sat, 31 May 2014 19:39:58 GMT

On 5/31/2014 Ford1224 said:
I have been suffering from daily physical pain for over ten years now. And I have suffered from mental anguish as well (loss of my beloved sister, other serious family issues).

I'll take the physical pain any day.

I feel the same way Ford. Mental anguish can bring on many physical problems.

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MickD — Sat, 31 May 2014 19:43:43 GMT

Catlover ~ My sis has kidney stones too.....ouchy....drink lots of water.....maybe ya' need to get those stones blasted apart so you can pass them....ouch....

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NoelSeven — Sat, 31 May 2014 19:51:09 GMT

Physical pain, and I've had the worst, including kidney stones and two lithotripsies for them.

I'd rather have something like that than what I went through when I lost my mother.

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MickD — Sat, 31 May 2014 19:57:01 GMT

{{{{Noel}}}}

I forgot to answer the question....I would say emotional (as time heals all wounds).....physical pain is a bugger.....

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abbeythe 8th — Sat, 31 May 2014 19:58:41 GMT

physical

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brewhaha — Sat, 31 May 2014 20:07:06 GMT

Physical pain. But then I am a masochist.

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qualitygal — Sat, 31 May 2014 20:26:43 GMT

On 5/31/2014 Ford1224 said:
I have been suffering from daily physical pain for over ten years now. And I have suffered from mental anguish as well (loss of my beloved sister, other serious family issues).

I'll take the physical pain any day.

I understand, and you made me think of my choices. I'll have to go with Mental anguish and there's plenty to go around, but the pain I've experienced in my back over the years, no more please. Neither one is what you would ever want to have to choose. But, my worst come to think of it was also possibly brought on by the mental anguish. I think they almost go hand in hand in misery.

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chessylady — Sat, 31 May 2014 20:31:58 GMT

I'd rather painlessly die in my sleep with no symptoms beforehand.

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JustJules — Sat, 31 May 2014 20:55:50 GMT

Have suffered from both at different points in my life, and I would choose Door #3! I think deep emotional pain can manifest in physical pain as well. I guess "if" I had to choose, I would select physical pain because there are certain treatments and medications and pain killers. While there are also medications to help with mental-emotional anguish, it never really goes away. I disagree with the poster that said time heals those things. Some days might be better than others, but it never truly goes away.

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RibbonsRosesRainbows — Sat, 31 May 2014 21:21:05 GMT

I would prefer mental..........physical is horrible.

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LilacTree — Sat, 31 May 2014 21:23:25 GMT

On 5/31/2014 qualitygal said:
On 5/31/2014 Ford1224 said:
I have been suffering from daily physical pain for over ten years now. And I have suffered from mental anguish as well (loss of my beloved sister, other serious family issues).

I'll take the physical pain any day.

I understand, and you made me think of my choices. I'll have to go with Mental anguish and there's plenty to go around, but the pain I've experienced in my back over the years, no more please. Neither one is what you would ever want to have to choose. But, my worst come to think of it was also possibly brought on by the mental anguish. I think they almost go hand in hand in misery.

Among other issues, I have rheumatoid arthritis and severe osteoporosis, neither of which I can attribute to mental anguish. And the physical issues had nothing to do with the mental anguish issues. They would have happened anyway.

There are conditions that can be aggravated by either of the issues we speak of, however.

Re: WOULD YOU RATHER SUFFER FROM MENTAL-EMOTIONAL ANGUISH OR PHYSICAL PAIN??

just bee — Sat, 31 May 2014 21:26:07 GMT

On 5/31/2014 brewhaha said:
Physical pain. But then I am a masochist.