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 fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)