Emotional distress
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Mental distress or anxiety suffered as a response to a sudden, severe, and saddening experience.
Emotional distress may refer to:
Emotional distress may refer to:
- Law of torts:
- Intentional infliction of emotional distressIntentional infliction of emotional distressIntentional infliction of emotional distress is a tort claim of recent origin for intentional conduct that results in extreme emotional distress. Some courts and commentators have substituted mental for emotional, but the tort is the same...
- Negligent infliction of emotional distressNegligent infliction of emotional distressThe tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress is a controversial cause of action, which is available in nearly all U.S. states but is severely constrained and limited in the majority of them. The underlying concept is that one has a legal duty to use reasonable care to avoid causing...
- Intentional infliction of emotional distress
- Medicine:
- Stress (medicine)Stress (medicine)Stress is a term in psychology and biology, borrowed from physics and engineering and first used in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become commonly used in popular parlance...
- see also List of emotions
- Stress (medicine)