Mental distress or psychological distress encompasses the symptoms and experiences of a person's internal life that are commonly held to be troubling...

inflicted emotional distress by behaving in an "extreme and outrageous" way. Some courts and commentators have substituted mental for emotional, but the...

maladaptive behaviors Mental distress (or psychological distress) Distress, or distraint, the act of seizing goods to compel payment Distress (novel), a novel...

Rumination is the focused attention on the symptoms of one's mental distress. In 1998, Nolen-Hoeksema proposed the Response Styles Theory, which is the...

behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. A mental disorder is also characterized by a clinically...

Some non-binary people receive gender-affirming care to reduce the mental distress caused by gender dysphoria, such as gender-affirming surgery or hormone...

reinstated if deemed repentant. Former members may experience significant mental distress as a result of being shunned, and some seek reinstatement to keep contact...

than a pleasure response. Tickle torture can cause real physical and mental distress in a victim.[citation needed] Tickle torture can be used as an alternative...

not improve psychosocial distress outcomes, medical care professionals should provide patients with targeted referrals to mental health and social work...

by a pattern of behavior or mental function that significantly impairs personal functioning or causes considerable distress. The DSM, a classification...

non-fiction book by Rachel Aviv that focuses on mental illness, diagnosis, and people in extreme mental distress. It was listed among the New York Times’ "The...

characterized by a subjective feeling of inner restlessness accompanied by mental distress and/or an inability to sit still. Usually, the legs are most prominently...

of the root causes of the distress. The DSM-5's expansive criteria that attribute mental pathology to people with distress or impairment from a wide-ranging...

Oxford University Press. p. 173. ISBN 9780195118018. Psychalgia: mental distress. Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary. But see also psychalgia in the...

could not sleep or eat after investigating the killing due to the mental distress that the gruesome nature of the case caused them. In May 2022, Sheila...

views. Between October 2018 and May 2019, Amofah demonstrated signs of mental distress, threatening to commit suicide on multiple occasions, and was hospitalized...

of Palestinian children experiencing mental distress, particularly in Gaza. This high prevalence of mental distress among the Palestinian population has...

Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and...

Worrying is the mental distress or agitation resulting from anxiety, usually coming from a place of anticipatory fear (terror) or fear coming from a present...

arbitrary dividing lines between mental illness and "normality"; possible cultural bias; and the medicalization of human distress. The APA itself has published...

the lack of treatment-seeking behavior in people with NPD, despite mental distress. Additionally, people with narcissistic personality disorders have...

treat mental distress were a combination of religious, magical, and/or medical perspectives. In the early 19th century, one approach to study mental conditions...

activities, Mind campaigns for the rights of people who have experience of mental distress. Mind's current campaigns[needs update] include: Taking care of business —...

the beginnings of moral treatment being introduced for people with mental distress. The concept of a safe asylum, proposed by Philippe Pinel and William...

is generally accepted.  The idea behind the model was to express mental distress as a triggered response of a disease that a person is genetically vulnerable...

Metropolitan Police Department states that Bushnell was "exhibiting signs of mental distress"—namely that he had "doused himself with an unidentified liquid and...

can also be interpreted as related to black magick and to madness or mental distress. A particularly important interpretation of the reversed Magician relates...

lines of communication and thus alleviate both mental symptoms and the experience of mental distress. Intending to ameliorate symptoms in those with...

use and non-specific mental distress. These associations are smaller after adjustment for elevated baseline symptoms of the mental illnesses and psychiatric...

assist individuals suffering from cabin fever in alleviating their mental distress. Exposure to the outdoors may stimulate both the brain and body, helping...