I’m not sure I can come up with a distinguishing principle here, but I feel like some but not all unpleasant emotions feel similar to physical pain, such that I would call them a kind of pain (“emotional pain”), and cringing at a bad joke can be painful in this way.
My understanding of Sarah’s comment was that the feeling is literally pain. At least for me, the cringe feeling doesn’t literally hurt.
I’m not sure I can come up with a distinguishing principle here, but I feel like some but not all unpleasant emotions feel similar to physical pain, such that I would call them a kind of pain (“emotional pain”), and cringing at a bad joke can be painful in this way.
Huh! For me, physical and emotional pain are two super different clusters of qualia.
When i am in emotional pain there is almost always an accompanying physical sensation. Like a tightness in the stomach.