Poll: As to pain - which is worse?

[Mock Turtle]

Based upon purely personal experience most likely, but what would you vote as being the worst experience of pain that you have endured? Like most no doubt, I have endured enough physical pain but I probably wouldn't class this as being the worst even if some such was bad enough at the time. And I will have endured many others on the list too.

If not on the list then please add whatever is appropriate.

 

[ChristineM]

Physical pain... Giving birth is considered one of the most painful things

Also had a doctor screw up and butchered my large intestine. It seems i died 4 times while 3 surgeons tried to fix the damage i think the months of recovery from that (and second op to do more patching up) was certainly on a par with giving birth


Mental distress. I have considered suicide to escape from a very disturbing and stressful period in my life.

I am a long distance carer for my grandiose, paranoid schizophrenic brother in law. What he has to go through every day of his life is shocking, and im not ashamed to say i have often shed tears for him

And losing a loved one. I've lost 8 loved ones my grandparents, a very good friend and 3 from complications with Covid. (Im not including pets here)
Although the distress and pain can ease over time just thinking about the ones you lost can bring it all back, even years after their death.

 

[JustGeorge]

I chose ending relationships, sleep deprivation, and mental distress.

I had some pretty chaotic and devastating relationship endings. Rather not get into it. Mental distress... well, my anxiety was so bad for the first 30ish years of my life I was unable to communicate in any meaningful manner with the majority of people. I can speak freely now, and its a gift I'm always thankful for.

Sleep deprivation is my current thing. I can't say its technically deprivation, but lack of any control over when I go to bed, and when I get up. The family chooses for me. It sounds fun, until its factored in that events in which I'm up too late or too early are generally because someone around me is having a mental health issue... and then its exhausting. Just a lack of a 'break' in general has really kicked my *** this year.

 

[syo]

When I feared my husband would left me, I thought I died. It was nightmare.

 

[anna.]

I've had severe physical pain, multiple times. All of them leading eventually to surgery, so I did choose that as one of my multiple choices. But the pain of losing loved ones either through death or by the ending of a relationship is something that never quite heals, unlike my physical pains.