Is emotional abuse as bad as physical?

I believe that emotional abuse is far worse than physical. Yea with physical you may get badly bruised but with emotional it can affect your personally. For example when you are abused you start to believe that what your being told is true. Therefore you lose confindence in yourself. You become nothing because your told your nothing. If you lose your spirit then you lose yourself there is no need to deal with it! DONT LET PEOPLE WALK OVER YOU. YOU ARE IMPORTANT TOO! BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!!!

to me its worse i mean you may not see the brusiz or the scars but the pain is visible all the same
emotional abuse is more often pushed aside like we are told to grow up get over it bla bla.,

but emotional abuse targets yr weakness's and then it works on yr very core makin you feel worthless and not worthy of anything.,

its just as cowardly as physical abuse its the other own patheticness that lingers with themselves,they cant control ther own worthless existence so they try and control ther surroundings.,

they get a high by watching you squirm.,to the tosser xgod of war *** you its not a mental disorder and mental heath is not anything to joke abt unless you hav it,.

and he/she is wrong people do care its a human weakness caring and gting emotionally attached it all leads to broken hearts.,

no offence but ill stand up for anyone worthy human or not.,

For 17 years my dad got drunk every weekend, holiday, etc. and took it out on me. Never physically. Verbally telling me I was stupid, would never be worth anything, too dumb to do anything right, etc. Got married at 17. For over 32 years verbal, emotional and physical abuse. I left the night he tried to choke me. He had beaten me before. The physical abuse is scary and dangerous. Verbal and emotional abuse can cause you to try to commit suicide, abuse yourself, etc.
Emotional abuse, to me is worse, although he's not here anymore, I can still hear the things he told me for so long . . . Worthless, stupid, nobody would ever want you but me, pull your head out of your @@@ , and on and on and on. I can still hear that in my head. But, I don't have bruises anymore. And, I have a wonderful boyfriend who builds me up instead of tearing me down.

I know someone whose partner kicked the living crap outof her on an almost daily basis. She got so used to it that she actually preferred being hit to the torrent of emotional abuse she was subjected to. She said that at least after a physical beating, the visible wounds enabled her to make him feel a degree of shame and therefore gave her a temporary reprieve.

What is physical abuse if not emotional? It is the emotional impact of physical abuse that does the greater damage; the purely physical injuries are largely meaningless in the big scheme of things. In short, what I mean is that physical abuse is merely a different form of emotional abuse and thus, yes the two are equally harmful. In fact, I'd argue the words often hit harder than punches.

All form of abuse are bad, but emotional abuse leaves scars that Never really go away, and it hits the very core of your being!! People who were emotionally abused or neglected as children and teens almost always grow up feeling worthless, stupid and guarded with there own emotions, even if they appear happy and content on the surface!!

Both are bad...there are no difference...

They're both bad and, as two posters have pointed out, the worst part of physical abuse IS emotional. If you were in an accident, you would feel bad but knowing that someone you love and trust is hurting you makes it ten times worse.

But, in some respects, emotional abuse is worse. Because it's invisible and all people can see if that the abused person acts weird or is shy or seems underconfident....and most people blame the person for their deficiencies, not having any idea what caused them. People are so often alone with emotional abuse. People who have never dealt with this don't understand why it's such a big deal when it leaves no physical scars. Also, if you have physical damage, other people can see it. But if you have emotional damage, the bully who is tormenting you is likely to get away with it because no one can see it. And because emotional abuse hurts our confidence and sense of self, it is very hard to fight back, and to know we are OK. It damages us at our very core and is very hard to overcome.

Having suffered both? For me? The emotional abuse was way worse than the physical abuse. Bruises on the outside healed a lot quicker than the bruises left on my psyche. Some of which will NEVER heal.

Emotional abuse is worse because physical wounds can heal, whereas emotional wounds are still attached to a stimulus until the connection is broke.