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:

    “People who love only once in their lives are ... shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “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)