Mental distress or anxiety suffered as a response to a sudden, severe, and saddening experience.
Emotional distress may refer to:
- Law of torts:
- Intentional infliction of emotional distress
- Negligent infliction of emotional distress
- Medicine:
- Stress (medicine)
- see also List of emotions
Famous quotes containing the words emotional and/or distress:
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)