Emotional Distress

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:

    “The worst drugs are as bad as anybody’s told you.... It’s just a dumb trip, which I can’t condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one’s own personal, social, emotional reasons. It’s something to be avoided if one can help it.”
    —John Lennon (1940–1980)

    “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)