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 child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child’s emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum’s richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.”
    —Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

    “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)