Emotional Distress
Significant psychological suffering — including anxiety, sadness, overwhelm, or helplessness — arising from stressors, loss, trauma, or clinical mental health conditions.
Quick answer
Emotional distress describes a state of significant psychological suffering — encompassing anxiety, sadness, anger, helplessness, or overwhelm — that is either transient and reactive or sustained and impairing. Not a formal primary diagnosis. ICD-10: F43.2 (adjustment disorder), R45.1; ICD-11: 6B43. A transdiagnostic state requiring contextual assessment.
Recognition
Do any of these feel familiar?
People often feel overwhelmed by emotions and may experience mood swings.
What is Emotional Distress?
Significant psychological suffering — including anxiety, sadness, overwhelm, or helplessness — arising from stressors, loss, trauma, or clinical mental health conditions.
Approaches Commonly Explored
Commonly explored for conditions related to Emotional Distress, grouped by mechanism — select your subtype above to highlight the most relevant path.
How to use these approaches
Most people begin with Stabilise approaches, then progress toward Resolve and Sustain.
Cognitive patterns, emotional processing, and stress response.
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