Question #54 from "The Book of Questions" by Gregory Stock, PH.D.
What is the worst psychological torture you can imagine suffering?
Anything causing even minor physical injury should not be considered.
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It would have to be something to do with my child being lost. I can't imagine what the parents of soldiers who are MIA must feel ... what emotions they must have to deal with ....
Or parents who had a child kidnapped .... or who had a child run away and never return.
Having a child die is one horrible thing .... but not knowing where your child is ... if he or she is dead or alive ... if he or she is cold or hungry or suffering horrible things .... that would be the worst psychological torture, I think.
watching a love one suffer
Any pain or suffering for my loved ones that I cannot stop or prevent would be the worst.
taking a long road trip (a normal 11 hour drive that turns into 12.5!) with a friend who gets carsick unless he's driving, only drives 3 miles over the speed limit, wants to only listen to talk radio, with 2 dogs...throw in that part of the trip is thru the state of arkansas and i'd say that's just cruel and unusual punishment!
i'm still in recovery.... =)
Listening to a crying baby and not being able to do a thing about it (your own - I can handle other kids crying, just not my own).
If my wife were to ever suffer.
Knowing something is going to happen to a loved one and being powerless to prevent it....
Having a loved one missing would have to be the worst thing I can think of.
Not knowing where my loved ones are and if they are well. Not being able to answer the plea of someone I love.
Not knowing the whereabouts or the condition of my children or my husband or a loved one. Second to that is watching one of my children or my husband or my loved ones, going through an ordeal and being powerless to intervene.
not sleeping for 3 weeks.
Being bipolar!
Chinese water torture, they strap you to a table in a dark room quiet room, and drip a drop of water every second on your head, not hard, just a steady drip, drip, drip.
That is the worst I can think of at any rate. You literally go crazy.
Interesting responses regarding the loss of children. That is the worst nightmare imaginable, and somehow, I did survive. I don't anticipate anything more emotionally difficult, with the exception of a child preceding me in death. However, the miracle is that the nightmare finally ended when I was reunited with my two sons who were placed in closed adoptions in the 1960's.
Child Birth!
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