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Which is worse, physical or verbal abuse?

I think they're just about equal, I mean I don't think one is worse than the other ...when a person is physically abused they become too scared to ask for help, which in turn just continues to get them hurt... but when a person is verbally abused it just breaks their spirit and self esteem so I think they're more likely to do something drastic (like inflict self harm, drugs, suicide etc.).

In your opinion, which do you think is worse?

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    Verbal by far! I can tell you things to make you hurt yourself without laying a hand on you.

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  • 1 decade ago

    They are both seriously wrong. There is a process to an abuser. In the beginning they are very charming, then the little name calling and belittling, telling her she can't do anything right, nobody will ever want her. They will alienate her from her friends and family. When she's beat down enough, the first slap. Then the (honeymoon stage)..I'm so sorry, it'll never happen again, can you please forgive me? And of course she does because she loves him and believes him. When he sees he got away with it...then the slaps become more severe and more often. It's all domestic violence. If they slap you once...leave. It's a guarantee it will get worse. Abusers don't do what they do because you're bad. They do what they do because they have no self esteem. It makes them feel bigger and better.

  • 4 years ago

    nicely .... Sticks and stones, do certainly, harm my bones. yet words do harm. "as undesirable" ... nicely, enable's basically say that they are diverse. that's far less stressful to recover from a slap or a punch. that doesn't depart actual scars, like some determination words can depart emotional scars. in spite of the undeniable fact that words can not kill or maim somebody. I used to think of that words harm worse than a beating. yet whilst i individually come to think of roughly it, it relatively is not approximately what hurts worse, that's approximately what is going to land you interior the ER or interior the morgue. And for those of you adult males, who think of i'm exaggerating .... the international seems very diverse in case you weigh one hundred twenty lbs. you experience lots greater susceptible, than in case you're 6' tall 250 lbs. It took me years to recover from verbal abuse. have self belief me i understand what that's like. Years and years. in spite of the undeniable fact that it did no longer kill me. yet human beings on listed decrease than are desirable ... i assume to function to it, with verbal abuse there is regularly no longer a sparkling sufferer and a sparkling wrongdoer because of the fact it gets mixed up and that's extremely subjective. And there are certainly people who're manipulative and are masters at being abusers, yet they do no longer p.c. out themselves as such. yet lower back, that isn't land you interior the ER, yet greater suitable than probably emotional shitcrap will increase into actual.

  • 1 decade ago

    they are equal but sometimes I think mental/verbal abuse is a little bit worse, as that is the type of abuse I get from my boyfriend.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In my opinion.

    Verbal It targets you physicall and mentally you cant sleep you worry all the time...Always depressed...THink your to fat, to ugly...Cant do nothing right

    All that causes you to look older and ugly bags under your eyes losing to much weight or gaining to much

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I agree with you, they are equally as damaging just in different ways.

  • 1 decade ago

    physical. with verbal you have a chance to fight back

  • Their just as bad

  • Carlos
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    yea both, because they can trigger psychological issues...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    both equal.

    \xo.

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