emotional upset

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Dr Greg Irwin, a doctor at the QEUH, was pictured confronting a group of protestors in February 2023, saying that they "cause emotional upset to patients, but also to staff members".

From BBC • May 15, 2025

"We have known since the time of the Ancient Greeks that intense emotional upset can affect the heart, but we don't really know exactly how it happens."

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2022

Lower education upped the odds of having a stroke linked with anger or emotional upset, as well.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

“Never, at least in my 42 years of experience, has it been brought up that it was specifically around a lie, but emotional upset sometimes can be a trigger,” he said.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2019

There was no evidence of emotional upset, but we waited for further testing until we had seen the father, that we might be sure of the school history.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William