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
Researchers in a global study devoted to figuring out stroke triggers found that about 1 in 11 stroke patients experience anger or emotional upset in the hour before their stroke symptoms begin.
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
He had been watching her for further signs of emotional upset.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall
