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:
“Our basic ideas about how to parent are encrusted with deeply felt emotions and many myths. One of the myths of parenting is that it is always fun and games, joy and delight. Everyone who has been a parent will testify that it is also anxiety, strife, frustration, and even hostility. Thus most major parenting- education formats deal with parental emotions and attitudes and, to a greater or lesser extent, advocate that the emotional component is more important than the knowledge.”
—Bettye M. Caldwell (20th century)
“All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)