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:

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    —Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 7:28.

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