Emotional abuse

Is physical abuse the only abuse? Isn’t the deepest of pain which stirs your soul and makes you immovable, emotional in nature? Physical wounds can heal in sometime and if not you die. But emotional wounds stay forever and are the hardest to heal. It always leaves a mark like the physical ones but on you as a person.


These thoughts came into my mind when someone close to my friend hurt her and when she said I am hurt, he questioned her and replied saying I didn’t cause you any physical harm. I couldn’t help but think is physical harm the only harm a person can cause? The biggest harms caused are always emotional in nature isn’t it so? Why we feel lost and devastated on a broken relationship. They didn’t beat us to death or anything, they just deserted you.

A person who’s physically challenged is not weak because of his physical incapability but from the realization and thoughts of things he can do and he can’t. If only we were mentally strong enough no problem would ever be a problem. We do exercises to keep our body fit and healthy and trimmed. But what is there for the mind? How do we train our mind to be strong too?

Physical hurt is much easy to deal with emotional hurt. We may not cry on biggest of physical injuries but on those of emotional ones. How can anybody not realize that? I wonder at times how can people be so insensitive to others? How can they be so selfish and self centered that they don’t even realize how much pain and harm they are causing to the other person. For them there’s no harm until physical harm is there. What if a person dies of his emotional trauma? Will then only be his wound visible?