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
Just over 8 percent of the patients surveyed said they had experienced anger or emotional upset within a day of symptom onset, which served as the control period.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021
But I believe that confronting whiteness and the myths associated with it would cause great emotional upset for many white people.
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2020
“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
His body fairly shook with excitement, pupils dilated, face became flushed and he could hardly speak on account of the emotional upset.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
